A Wikipedia entry on George Whitefield, the English evangelist whose preaching tours across Britain and colonial America were central to the First Great Awakening, compiled and revised by volunteer editors.
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Reliability TierReliability tier 3: a Wikipedia entry, written and revised by unnamed volunteer editors, suited to an uncontested, easily checked biographical point rather than a disputed claim. NotesCrowd-sourced tertiary reference, consulted directly, 2026-08-11. Used here only for the plain, checkable facts that George Whitefield was born 27 December 1714 (16 December Old Style) in Gloucester and died 30 September 1770 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, matching the atlas's own pre-existing lifespan text on his entity. 1 Citation
Publication Year URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Whitefield 1 In Other Languages (9 names)
- جورج وايتفيلد
- George Whitefield
- جرج وایتفیلد
- ジョージ・ホウィットフィールド
- 조지 휫필드
- Georgius Whitefield
- Уайтфилд, Джордж
- Джордж Вайтфільд
- 喬治·懷特腓
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