Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735

LC control no.	n 85112239
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wesley, S. (Samuel), 1662-1735 Country divine, 1662-1735 Schollar, 1662-1735 Divine of the Church of England, 1662-1735 S. W. (Samuel Wesley), 1662-1735 W., S. (Samuel Wesley), 1662-1735 Wesley, Samuel, the Elder
See also	Corporate body: Athenian Society (London, England) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Found in	His The life of our blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ ... 1679: t.p. (Samuel Wesley) DNB (Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735; divine and poet) InU/Wing STC files (usage: S. Wesley; country divine; a schollar) Advice to a young clergyman: in a letter to him, [1735]: t.p. (A divine of the Church of England) The works of John and Charles Wesley, 1906: p.10-11 (Advice to a young clergyman ... was written by Samuel Wesley, sen.) LC data base, 5/15/85 (hdg.: Wesley, Samuel, 1662-1735) Nelson, R. The practice of true devotion, 1812: p. 16 (S.W.; author of elegy, On Mr. Nelson) GoogleBooks, via WWW, Oct. 13, 2011: Teale, W.H. Lives of English laymen, 1842, p. 352 (Samuel Wesley; father of John Wesley; wrote the elegy "On Mr. Nelson" in his copy of Nelson's True devotion) Wikipedia, 20 Feb. 2012: under Samuel Wesley, poet (Samuel Wesley, born 17 Dec. 1662, died 5 Apr. 1735, was a clergyman of the Church of England, as well as a poet and a writer of controversial prose; he was also the father of John Wesley and Charles Wesley, founders of the Methodist Church) BL database, 20 Feb. 2012 (old hdg.: Wesley, Samuel, the Elder) Parks, S. John Dunton and the English book trade, 1976 : page 74 (the Athenian Society, 1691-1697) page 75-76 (Dunton created the Athenian Society to create "the illusion of a body of learned men engaged in replying to the questions submitted by readers") page 80 (members: John Dunton; Richard Sault, the mathematician; and: Samuel Wesley, Dunton's brother-in-law)