George de Benneville

George de Benneville (London, July 25, 1703 – Pennsylvania, March 19, 1793) was a physician and Christian Universalist preacher.

He preached and practiced medicine in France and Germany, but as religious authorities across Europe grew more and more disturbed by the increasing visibility of evangelists, de Benneville and others were sentenced to death more than once.

After completing medical training in Europe, he chose to emigrate, and arrived in the American colonies during the mid-eighteenth century with others seeking religious tolerance.

After settling in Pennsylvania, he worked as a physician and apothecary in Oley, Berks County, using his free time to continue his Universalist preaching.

His beliefs stressed that all people everywhere were loved by God, and that cultures, races, and genders had no bearing on the worth of a human being.