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Mehetabel (name)
Mehetabel was the name of two minor biblical figures. * The wife of Hadar (Genesis 36:39) * A patriarch (Nehemiah 6:10) The name in Hebrew means 'how good is God' or 'has done good to us'.Cruden's Complete Concordance. Youngman 1896 Mehetabel is also a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Mehetabel Newman Mehetabel Newman (1822 – 8 January 1908) from Willoughby, Lincolnshire was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where she was a Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of ... (1822–1908), New Zealand missionary and teacher * Mehetabel Wesley Wright (1697–1750), English poet, the fourth daughter of Samuel Wesley (father of John and Charles Wesley). References {{Given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehetabel Newman
Mehetabel Newman (1822 – 8 January 1908) from Willoughby, Lincolnshire was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where she was a Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related Christian denomination, denominations of Protestantism, Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John W ... missionary, a letter-writer, a teacher and a homemaker. Joseph Newman was an older brother. References 1822 births 1908 deaths English Methodist missionaries New Zealand educators New Zealand women educators People from East Lindsey District English emigrants to New Zealand 19th-century New Zealand people Methodist missionaries in New Zealand 19th-century Methodists Fairburn–Newman family {{NewZealand-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehetabel Wesley Wright
Mehetabel Wesley Wright (nicknames "Hetty" and "Kitty"; 1697 – 21 March 1750) was an English poet. She was a member of the influential religious Wesley family. Early life Born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, Wright was the daughter of Samuel Wesley, an Anglican clergyman and poet and his wife Susanna Wesley (née Annesley). Wright was one of 19 children born to Samuel and Susanna Wesley, of whom at least nine died in infancy. Her siblings included younger brothers John Wesley and Charles Wesley, leaders of the Methodist movement, as well as an elder brother Samuel Wesley the Younger, who was a poet and a Church of England cleric. Emilia, Susanna, Mary, Anne, Martha, and Kezia were sisters. Nicknamed "Hetty", and called "Kitty" by her brother Samuel, Wright had a good education, and reportedly was able to read the Greek Testament (''The New Testament in Greek'') is a critical edition of the New Testament in its original Koine Greek, forming the basis of most modern Bible t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Wesley (composer, Born 1766)
Samuel Wesley (24 February 1766 – 11 October 1837) was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart (1756–1791) and was called by some "the English Mozart".Kassler, Michael & Olleson, Philip (2001). ''Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book''. Ashgate. Personal life Born in Bristol, he was the son of noted Methodist and hymnodist Charles Wesley, the grandson of Samuel Wesley (a poet of the late Stuart period) and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church. His early musical education mostly took place in the family home in Bristol, where Sarah Wesley, his mother, sang and played the harpsichord. Hymn tunes and the works of Handel were the family's favourite pieces. Samuel also had lessons from David Williams, the organist of All Saints' Church, Bristol. In 1771 his father acquired a second house, in Chesterfield Street, Marylebone, London. Samuel left Bristol for the house in London by 1778. Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wesley
John Wesley (; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day. Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1726 and ordained as an Anglican priest two years later. At Oxford, he led the " Holy Club", a society formed for the purpose of the study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life; it had been founded by his brother Charles and counted George Whitefield among its members. After an unsuccessful ministry of two years, serving at Christ Church, in the Georgia colony of Savannah, he returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians. On 24 May 1738, he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conversion, when he felt his "heart strangely wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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