Wesley, Charles, hymn-writer, born at Epworth, educated at Eton and Oxford; was associated with his more illustrious brother in the establishment of Methodism; his hymns are highly devotional, and are to be found in all the hymnologies of the Church (1708‒1788).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Werther * Wesley, John