What was the first name of the hymn-writing younger brother of John Wesley?
Samuel Wesley (the Younger) Samuel Wesley (the Younger) Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet and a Church of England cleric. Wesley was the eldest son of the cleric and poet Samuel Wesley and of Susanna Annesley Wesley. He was the brother of John Wesley and Charles Wesley. He was born in Spitalfields, London in either 1690 or 1691. He said he was 18 years old in 1711 and he wrote a letter in which he said he was born in 1690. His tombstone said he died in his 49th year, which would put his
Samuel Wesley (the Younger) They were survived by two children: a daughter and a son Their son was Samuel II, not Thomas. Thomas was the son of Samuel II. A high church Tory, Wesley was a friend of Bishop Francis Atterbury. He was never a Methodist and yet five hymns of several composed by him are in the Wesleyan Hymn Book of the present day. Samuel Wesley (the Younger) Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet and a Church of England cleric. Wesley was the eldest son of the cleric and poet Samuel Wesley and