Secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He was born in Madeley, Shropshire. He came from a staunchly Anglican-Methodist background and his granduncle had been John Fletcher's churchwarden. He was converted at the age of sixteen through the preaching of the Methodist minister Jabez Rought and he entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1840. After training at the Wesleyan Theological Institute, he served as a circuit minister in some of the most important English and Scottish circuits until 1863 when he was appointed to the post of Secretary of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society. He was Secretary of Conference in 1872 and President a year later. He continued in the active ministry until his death, which occurred just a few days after preaching his last sermon behalf of the Foreign Missions. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Recorder, which continues as the connexional newspaper to this day.
Secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. He was born in Madeley, Shropshire. He came from a staunchly Anglican-Methodist background and his granduncle had been John Fletcher's churchwarden. He was converted at the age of sixteen through the preaching of the Methodist minister Jabez Rought and he entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1840. After training at the Wesleyan Theological Institute, he served as a circuit minister in some of the most important English and Scottish circuits until 1863 when he was appointed to the post of Secretary of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society. He was Secretary of Conference in 1872 and President a year later. He continued in the active ministry until his death, which occurred just a few days after preaching his last sermon behalf of the Foreign Missions. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Recorder, which continues as the connexional newspaper to this day.
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