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Samuel Wesley was born on December 17, 1662. He was the son of the dissenting pastor John Westley or Wesley, who had been Rector of Winterborne, in Dorset, prior to his ejection. His mother was the daughter of the rector of Trinity Church, Dorchester.
Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart (1756 ...
Jul 1, 2000 · G.J. Stevenson Memorials of the Wesley Family (London, [1876]), p.545. 3: Testimonial dated 3 February 1844 (Author’s collection). 4: Testimonial dated 20 July 1835 (Exeter Cathedral Library MS D & C Exeter 7061/Wesley Papers/2). Gauntlett had been a pupil of Samuel Wesley and was an early champion of his son’s music.
Samuel Wesley Junior (1690-1739) Samuel, known to the family as Sammy, was the eldest of Samuel and Susanna’s children. Born on the 10 February 1690, he was named after this father and maternal grandfather. As a young child he caused his parents considerable worry. By the age of five Sammy had still not spoken his first word.
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.
Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) was the father of John and Charles Wesley and another seventeen children, nine of whom died in infancy. He was a clergyman of the Church of England and also wrote prose and poetry. Samuel Wesley spent most of his life as the Rector of Epworth in Lincolnshire.
Samuel Wesley left several children; his eldest son, Rev. Charles Wesley, D.D. (1795-1859), was sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, and editor of a collection of words of anthems. His younger son, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876), was also gifted organist and composer, who inherited the genius of his father.
