Samuel Wesley

(1766-1837)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wesley, Samuel, 1691-1739 NRA: Wesley Samuel (1691-1739) Schoolmaster DNB: Wesley, Samuel the younger (1690/91–1739), Church of England clergyman and poet LBT ID: SaWesle1739 VIAF ID: 58041644 LOC ID: n85067499	B/BAP: 1766-02-24 DIED: 1837-10-11
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The elder brother of John Wesley; educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, he was a schoolmaster and a notable minor poet.
REFERENCES TO Samuel Wesley: Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1800 Found 1: ¶ 2