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an English Methodist minister, was born at Manchester in 1813. He was converted at the age of nineteen and joined the Primitive Methodists, and distinguished himself by Christian zeal as a class-leader and local preacher. At the age of thirty-four he entered the itinerant ministry, and labored earnestly and successfully in sixteen circuits in Ireland and England. In July, 1880, he was appointed to the Barton-on-Humber Circuit, where he continued his ministrations till January, 1881, when he became a supernumerary. He died June 21, 1881. He was a faithful minister of the Gospel and a devoted Christian.