Early Methodist itinerant and Anglican clergyman, educated at Trinity College, Oxford (but without graduating). He was influenced by the Rev. John Thorold, John Wesley's predecessor as Fellow of Lincoln College, and by the Rev. Griffith Jones of Llanddowror. He associated himself with the Wesleys and John Wesley later referred to him, along with Thomas Maxfield and Thomas Westell, as one of his first lay assistants. In 1744 he was an itinerant in Yorkshire and Derbyshire and was present at the first two Conferences in 1744 and 1745. In 1746 John Wesley made him a trustee of his properties in Bristoland Newcastle. He became language master at Kingswood School in 1748, but was not a success in the classroom and returned to the itinerancy in 1751. He left in 1759 and with the Countess of Huntingdon's support was ordained, serving for over 30 years as curate of St Sepulchre's, London.