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J BUNTING

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUNTING  .-,See also:BUNTING See also:education among Wesleyan ministers . He was four times chosen to be See also:president of the See also:conference, was repeatedly secretary of the " Legal See also:Hundred," and for eighteen years was secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society . Under him See also:Methodism ceased to be a society based upon See also:Anglican See also:foundation, and became a distinct See also:church . He favoured the See also:extension of See also:lay See also:power in committees, and was particularly zealous in the cause of See also:foreign See also:missions . Bunting was a popular preacher, and an effective See also:platform See also:speaker; in 1818 he was given the degree of M.A. by See also:Aberdeen University, and in 1834 that of D.D. by Wesleyan University of See also:Middletown, See also:Conn., U.S.A . He died on the 16th of See also:June 1858 . His eldest son, See also:William Maclardie Bunting (1805-1866), was also a distinguished Wesleyan See also:minister; and his See also:grandson See also:Sir See also:Percy William Bunting (b . 1836), son of T . P . Bunting, became prominent as a liberal See also:nonconformist and editor of the Contemporary See also:Review from 1882, being knighted in 1908 . See Lives of Jabez Bunting (1859) and W . M .

Bunting (1870) by See also:

Thomas See also:Percival Bunting .

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