biography
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| (1707–88)
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| biography:
| Hymn-writer and evangelist, born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK, the brother of John Wesley. He studied at Oxford, was ordained in 1735, and accompanied John to Georgia as secretary to Governor James Oglethorpe, returning to England in 1736. After an evangelical conversion in 1738, he wrote over 5500 hymns, including such well-loved favourites as ‘Jesu, Lover of My Soul’, ‘Hark, the Herald Angels Sing’, and ‘Love Divine, All Loves Excelling’. |
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