Methodist Church

Welsh on her mother 's side and Scottish on her father 's, LB came from a remarkable, presumably white, Methodist family.

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

Brought up in all the fervour of early Methodism (to which each of her parents had devoted their life before she was born), EF seems to have retained no trace of it after she was...

From about this time she associated herself with John Wesley 's fairly new religious group called the Methodists (then part of the Church of England). Another influence on her religious thinking was Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

SW died at her son John 's Methodist headquarters of The Foundery in London.

As a teenager EW was sent back to England for further education at Trinity Hall School in Southport, Lancashire, a Wesleyan Methodist boarding school for girls. She later recalled this as a highly regimented,...

In November 1874 a great change came in Marie's life when her mother engaged for her children an English nurse, Sarah Mew , a Wesleyan of a rigid type, though she had leanings towards Methodism

EF 's father, Peter Jaco , born in 1721, was a Cornishman, who early in life worked for his father in the pilchard fishery; ships owned by the family sailed in the Mediterranean. EF said...

In 1912 EW was briefly engaged to a Methodist lawyer, John Pethybridge Nicolls , whose family was close with her grandmother. She had known him since she was a young teenager; he was almost twenty...

Her father had already treated her harshly, though he was one of the first converts of the early Methodist preacher George Whitefield .

His father, Ebenezer Jenkins , was a Methodist missionary in India during the 1840s. James Heald Jenkins was his only son.

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

SW bore the child who became the most famous of all her offspring: John Wesley , father of Methodism .

Cassandra's cousin Jane Austen criticised the household management of Samuel Cooke (who was her godfather), judging him a disagreable, fidgetty master to his servants. In his professional capacity he worried about competing with the Methodists