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See also:CHARLES See also:WESLEY (1707-1788) was the eighteenth See also:child of the See also:Rector of Epworth, and was saved from the See also:fire of 1709 by his See also:nurse. He entered See also:Westminster School in 1716, became a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Scholar and was See also:captain of the school in 1725. He was a plucky boy, and won the See also:life-See also:long friendship of the future See also:earl of See also:Mansfield by fighting battles on his behalf. See also:Garret
Wesley of See also:Ireland wished to adopt his See also:young kinsman, but this offer was declined and the estates were See also:left to See also:Richard See also:Colley on See also:condition that he assumed the name Wesley. The See also:duke of See also:Wellington was Colley's See also:grandson, and appears in the See also:Army See also:List for ',Soo as the Hon. See also:Arthur Wesley. Charles Wesley was elected to See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in 1726. See also:John had become See also:fellow of See also:Lincoln the previous See also:March. Charles lost his first twelve months at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in " diversions," but whilst John was acting as their See also:father's See also:curate, his See also:brother " awoke out of his lethargy." He persuaded two or three other students to go with him to the weekly See also:sacrament. This led a young See also:gentleman of Christ Church to exclaim: " Here is a new set of Methodists sprung up." The name quickly spread through the university and Oxford See also:Methodism began its course. In 1735 Charles Wesley was ordained and went with his brother to See also:Georgia as secretary to See also:Colonel, afterwards See also:General, See also:Oglethorpe, the See also:Governor. The See also:work proved uncongenial, and after enduring many hardships his See also:health failed and he left Frederica for See also:England on See also:July the 26th, 1736. He hoped to return, but in See also:February 1738 John Wesley came See also:home, and Charles found that his See also:state of health made it necessary to resign his secretaryship. After his evangelical See also:conversion on Whit See also:Sunday (May 21st, 1738), he became the poet of the Evangelical Revival. He wrote about 6500 See also:hymns. They vary greatly in merit, but See also:Canon Overton held him, taking quantity and quality into See also:consideration, to be " the See also:great hymn-writer of all ages." Their See also:early volumes of See also:poetry See also:bear the names of both See also:brothers, but it is generally assumed that the See also:original hymns were by Charles and the See also:translations by John Wesley. Poetry was like another sense to Charles, and he was busy See also:writing See also:verse from his conversion up to his See also:death-See also:bed when he dictated to his wife his last lines, " In See also:age and feebleness extreme." For some years he took a full See also:share in the hardships and perils of the Methodist itinerancy, and was often a remarkably powerful preacher. After his See also:marriage in 1749 his work was chiefly confined to See also:Bristol, where he then lived, and See also:London. He moved to London in 1771 and died in Marylebone on March the 29th, 1788. He was strongly opposed to his brother's ordinations, and refused to be buried at See also:City Road, because the ground there was unconsecrated. He was buried in the graveyard of Marylebone Old Church, but this appears to have been unconsecrated also.
Charles Wesley married Sarah Gwynne, daughter of a Welsh See also:magistrate living at See also:Garth, on See also:April 8th, 1749. She died in 1822 at the age of ninety-six. Five of their See also:children died as infants and are buried in St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's See also:Churchyard, Bristol. Their surviving daughter Sarah, who was engaged in See also:literary work, died unmarried in 1828. Charles Wesley, Junr. (1759-i834) was organist of St See also:George's, See also:Hanover Square. He published Six Concertos for the See also:Organ and See also:Harp in 1778. He also died unmarried. See also:Samuel, the younger brother (1766-1837), was even more gifted than Charles as an organist and composer; he was also a lecturer on musical subjects. Two of his sons were Dr Wesley, sub-See also:dean of the See also:Chapel Royal, and Dr Samuel See also:Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), the famous composer and organist of See also:Gloucester See also:Cathedral.
End of Article: CHARLES WESLEY (1707-1788)
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