PM itinerant and revivalist, born at Whickham, near Gateshead on 2 June 1813. He began life as a keelman on the Tyne, was converted under Hodgson Casson, becoming first a WM, then a PM. He became an exhorter in 1830 and was then taken on in 1831 as a hired local preacher to work in the Hexham Circuit between Morpeth and Rothbury at the expense of Squire Shafto. Later he did similar work in and around Northallerton, showing the charismatic power and revivalist fervour which were strong features of his ministry. He entered the full itinerancy in 1835 and served several circuits within the Sunderland PM District. He died on 9 December 1869.

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