Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Wesley, John
Wesley, John, s. Sam., of Epworth, co. Lincoln, cler. Christ Church, matric. 18 July, 1720, aged 16, B.A. 1724; fellow Lincoln Coll. 1725, M.A. 9 Feb., 1726-7, 'the founder of Wesleyan Methodism,' died 2 March, 1791, tablet in Westminster Abbey. See pedigree in Reliquary, viii. 188.