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See also:COKE, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1747-1814) , See also:English divine, the first Methodist See also:bishop, was See also:born at See also:Brecon, where his See also:father was a well-to-do See also:apothecary. He was educated at Jesus See also:College, 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, taking the degree of M.A. in 1770 and that of D.C.L. in 1775. From 1772 to 1776 he was See also:curate at See also:South Petherton in. See also:Somerset, whence his See also:rector dismissed him for adopting the open-See also:air and cottage services introduced by See also:John See also:Wesley, with whom he had become acquainted. After serving on the See also:London Wesleyan See also:circuit he was in 1782 appointed See also:president of the See also:conference in See also:Ireland, a position which he frequently held, in the intervals of his many voyages to See also:America. He first visited that See also:country in 1784, going to See also:Baltimore as " See also:superintendent " of the Methodist See also:societies in the new See also:world and, in 1787 the See also:American conference changed his See also:title to " bishop," a nomenclature which he tried in vain to introduce into the English conference, of which he was president in 1797 and 18o5. Failing this, he asked See also:Lord See also:Liverpool to make him a bishop in See also:India, and he was voyaging to See also:Ceylon when he died on the 3rd of May 1814. Coke had always been a missionary enthusiast, and was the See also:pioneer of such enterprise in his connexion. He was an ardent opponent of See also:slavery, and endeavoured also to heal the See also:breach between the Methodist and See also:Anglican communions. He published a See also:History of the See also:West Indies (3 vols., 18o8-1811), several volumes of sermons, and, with See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Moore, a See also:Life of Wesley (1792).
End of Article: COKE, THOMAS (1747-1814)
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