WM minister. He wrote two Appeals to the Wesleyan Societies (1834 and 1835) at the time of the Warrenite controversy and various other works defending the WM ministry and discipline against its detractors, including The National Importance of Methodism (1831), A Defence of the Discipline of Methodism (1835), and Wesleyan Methodism Vindicated (1847). Just before his death on 8 September 1850, he was appointed Governor of the WM Collegiate Institution at Taunton.
'Strong, fleshy, round, sandy hair and light complexion. Cautious, sedate, solid, compact. No theorist … An excellent commentator on Wesleyan law and usage… Wants animation. Somewhat like a person on a watch-tower, on the look out. An improver of passing events. Sheds a sober, steady light.'
Wesleyan Takings (1840), p.311
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