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'''The Clapham Sect''' was the name given to the main group of [[Evangelism|evangelical]] [[revival]]ists in [[Great Britain|Britain]] during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The most famous of them were [[Granville Sharp]], Thomas Clarkson, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay, Charles Grant, John Shore (later Lord Teignmouth), Thomas Babington, Henry Thornton and [[William Wilberforce]]. The name arose from the fact that many of them lived in Clapham, which was then a village three miles south of [[London]], and attended Clapham's parish church, ''Holy Trinity Clapham''. In Parliament, however, they were often mockingly referred to as "the Saints". It is doubtful whether any other single small congregation has exercised such a far-flung influence as the Clapham Sect. Devout [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]], they championed religious and humanitarian causes, most notably bringing about the abolition of the [[slave]] trade.