biography
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| lived:
| (1747–1814)
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| biography:
| Methodist clergyman, born in Brecon, Powys, E Wales, UK. He studied at Oxford (1768), and became an Anglican curate in Somerset, but in 1777 joined the Methodists, and was attached to the London circuit. In 1784 he was appointed by John Wesley as the superintendent of the Methodist Church in America. He visited the USA nine times, and assumed the title of bishop in 1787. He died in the Indian Ocean on a missionary voyage to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). |
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