George Whitefield

(1714-1770)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Whitefield, George, 1714-1770 NRA: Whitefield George (1714-1770) Calvinistic Methodist DNB: Whitefield, George (1714-1770), Calvinistic Methodist leader LBT ID: GeWhite1770 VIAF ID: 27107411 LOC ID: n50019884	B/BAP: 1714-12-16 DIED: 1770-09-30
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Methodist preacher associated with John and Charles Wesley; he was particularly influential in America where he visited on a number of occasions.
REFERENCES TO George Whitefield: Grahame, James, 1790-1842, Two Letters (Edinburgh: John Fairbairn, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 11 Robert Southey to George Ticknor, 13 August 1821 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Robert Southey to Robert Philip, 15 August 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 4 Kennedy, James, 1793?-1827, Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron and others, held in Cephalonia, a short time previous to His Lordship’s Death (London: John Murray, 1830) Fifth Conversation Found 3: ¶ 32 ¶ 33 ¶ 36 “Conversations on Religion, with Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Literary Journal 4 (10 July 1830) 21-23 Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXVI. 1821 Ch. XXIX. 1825-1826 John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 16 April 1849 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 4 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. I. 1756-1785 Found 1: ¶ 11 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter III. 1810-1812. Found 1: ¶ 12 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 21: 1842-50