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

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Thomas Percival Bunting .