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Samuel Wesley

Childhood and Education

Samuel Wesley was either born or baptised on 17 December 1662, the son of Rev John Westley, a Dissenting minister in Dorset. Sadly, Rev John Westley died when Samuel was still a child and records do not make clear whether his mother was still living.

Despite becoming fatherless at a young age Samuel acquired a good education. His early education began at Dorchester Free School, under headmaster Henry Dolling. It is thought that Dolling, who was strongly committed to the Church of England, was one of the key influences on Samuel turning away from his family’s dissenting tradition. Samuel’s dislike of dissent was further strengthened when he was sent to Mr Veal’s dissenting academy in Stepney.

Following his early education Samuel was determined to attend Oxford, despite limited means. Walking from London to Oxford to enrol at Exeter College, he became a ‘Pauper Scholar’. This meant he funded his studies by waiting on tables and other students. His hard work paid off when, in August 1688, he was ordained as

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Samuel Wesley: The Man and his Music

A vivid picture of the public and private life of a professional musician in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London.

This well-documented life of Samuel Wesley gives a vivid picture of the life of a professional musician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century London. Wesley was born in 1766, the son of the Methodist hymn-writer CharlesWesley and nephew of the preacher John Wesley. He was the finest composer and organist of his generation, but his unconventional behaviour makes him of more than ordinary interest. He lived through a crucial stage of English musicfrom the immediately post-Handel generation to the early Romantic period, and his large output includes piano and organ music, orchestral music, church music, glees, and songs. He also taught and lectured on music, and was involved in journalism, publishing, and promoting the music of J. S. Bach. This book draws on letters, family papers, and other contemporary documents to offer a full study of Wesley, his music, and his life and times.

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wesley, Samuel (1662-1735)

WESLEY, SAMUEL (1662–1735), divine and poet, father of the great methodist leader, second son of John Wesley, was baptised on 17 Dec. 1662 at Winterborn-Whitchurch, Dorset. The family name was originally spelled Westley, and Samuel so wrote his name in 1694. His grandfather, Bartholomew Westley (1595?–1679?), was the third son of Sir Herbert Westley of Westleigh, Devonshire, by his wife Elizabeth de Wellesley of Dangan, co. Meath. He held the sequestered rectories of Charmouth (from 1640) and Catherston (from 1650), Dorset, from both of which he was ejected in 1662, subsequently practising as a physician; he married (1619) Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Colley of Carbury, co. Kildare, and granddaughter of Adam Loftus (1533?–1605) [q. v.], primate of Ireland; the story that on 23 Sept. 1651 he gave information intended to secure the capture of Charles II, who had lodged at Charmouth after the battle of Worcester, seems authentic, in spite of some difficulty about details (see authorities in Tyerman'sSa