J. C. Ryle, “the Prince of Tract Writers”

Posted on November 13, 2025 
Filed under History, People

“John Charles Ryle (1816–1900) was one of the most popular theological writers of the Victorian period, and the most prominent evangelical clergyman in the Church of England.

His ministry almost exactly spanned the reign of Queen Victoria – he was converted to Christ in 1837, just a few months after the young Queen’s accession to the British throne, and died at the dawn of the new century in 1900, just a few months before the monarch’s own death. …”

– Crossway has published this article adapted from Andrew Atherstone’s Ryle on the Christian Life: Growing in Grace.