THOMAS COKE, LL.D.

Dr. Coke joined Wesley in 1777 at the age of twenty-nine. He became Wesley’s right hand, and was set apart as a General Superintendent of the work in America in 1787. He died on his way to Ceylon with a band of missionaries on May 15, 1814.

JOHN AND CHARLES WESLEY’S QUARTERS IN BRISTOL

Charles Wesley’s house in Charles Street, St. James’, Bristol, 1749-1771, has been presented to the Wesleyan Methodist Conference by Mr. Edmund S. Lamplough.

Wesley had his study and also his little bedroom at the New Room, Broadmead, Bristol. This was his home for weeks together in Bristol, and here he had interviews with preachers and people.

JOHN WESLEY, BY ROBERT HUNTER

Robert Hunter painted this portrait of Wesley at Dublin in July 1765. Wesley says: ‘At the earnest request of a friend, I suffered Mr. Hunter to take my picture. I sat only once, from about ten o’clock to half an hour after one; and in that time he began and ended the face, and with a most striking likeness.’ Wesley gave the portrait to Mr. Buttress, in whose family it remained for 140 years, till Mr. Edmund Lamplough purchased it.

MINATURES OF JOHN FLETCHER AND JOHN WESLEY 

These miniatures are attributed to John Smart, Junior, minaure painter, by the expert Mr. Myers, 1887. the experts at the British and South Kensington Museums pronounced that of John Wesley to be ‘the most finished, life-like and tender likenesses known.’ The miniatures are reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the Wesley Museum, City Road, London.