Charles Simeon was an influential English evangelical clergyman and biblical commentator who lived from 1759 to 1836. Educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, he underwent a religious conversion during his undergraduate years. He spent much of his ministry at Holy Trinity Church in Cambridge, where he eventually grew a large congregation despite early opposition. As a prominent leader of the Low Church movement, he exerted significant influence across the Church of England through his preaching, his theological writings, and his organizational leadership in missionary societies.