Person    | Male  Born 17/6/1703  Died 2/3/1791

John Wesley

Categories: Religion, Seriously Famous

Founder of the Methodist denomination of the Protestant religion. Born Epworth rectory, near Lincoln. Was a Church of England clergyman and at Whitsuntide, May 1738, 3 days after his brother, Charles, had a conversion experience which marked the spiritual birth of Methodism. Inspired by the Moravian doctrine. Aged 48 he married Mary Vazeille but unable to compete with his other interests she left him 15 years later. They had no children.  Died at his house in City Road.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Wesley

Commemorated ati

Aldersgate Flame

{On the west face:} Wednesday May 24 1738 "What occurred .......law of sin an...

Read More

Hanbury Hall - blue oval plaque

This plaque has a shortened version of the text on the old white plaque.

Read More

Hanbury Hall - white plaque - removed

Christ Church Hall Built in 1719 as a French Hugeonot {sic} church it stood b...

Read More

John Wesley - Aldersgate Street

The probable site, where, on May 24, 1738 John Wesley "felt his heart strange...

Read More

John Wesley's house - EC1

Wesley lived here in the winters from 1779 until his death, here.

Read More

Show all 13

Other Subjects

Charles Williams

Charles Williams

Writer on literature and theology, novelist and poet. Born Charles Walter Stansby Williams, 3 Spencer Road. He worked for the Oxford University Press (OUP) in various capacities for most of his lif...

Person, Literature, Poetry, Religion

1 memorial
Thomas Reeding

Thomas Reeding

Lay brother at London Charterhouse. Taken Taken to Newgate Prison, chained and left to starve to death.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial
Raising the tower - Wandsworth All Saints

Raising the tower - Wandsworth All Saints

The upper storey of the west tower was added in 1841 to enable a peal of eight bells to be installed.  The picture shows the tower in 1810, pre-works.

Event, Architecture, Religion

1 memorial
William Thomas Du Boulay

William Thomas Du Boulay

Vicar of the church of St. Mary, The Boltons, Kensington. He served at the church between 1868 and 1909. Little more is known of him, except that under his tenure he rearranged the layout inside th...

Person, Religion

1 memorial
Lincoln Stanhope Wainright

Lincoln Stanhope Wainright

He came to St Peter's Church, London Docks in 1873, and devoted himself to providing the local people with schools, clubs and medical facilities. On one occasion he gave away his own clothes to a n...

Person, Religion

1 memorial