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an English Wesleyan minister, was born near Leigh, Lancashire, in 1742. He entered the army and was converted while quartered at Limerick; afterwards became a class-leader in Liverpool, and the society there sent him, in 1775, as a missionary to the Isle of Man, whose inhabitants were in a heathenish state of immorality. Amid discouragement and persecution he planted Methodism in that island, and in 1782 was appointed to the Lisburn Circuit, in counties Down and Antrim, and thereafter labored in Ireland, except another term of service in the Isle of Man, from 1786 to 1788, and 1798. During the latter part of his life he preached in England. He died at Scarborough, December 27, 1805. See Wesl. Meth. Mag. 1808, page 3, etc.; Minutes of the British Conference, 1806; Stevens, Hist. of Meth. 2:325; 3:202; Smith, Hist of Wesl. Meth. 1:391, 451; 2:429; Rosser, Hist. of Wesl. Meth. in the Isle of Man (Lond. 1849), page 48 sq.