Miles Martindale (1756–1824) was an English
Wesleyan minister.
Life
The son of Paul Martindale, he was born in 1756 at
Moss Bank
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. He had little education slender education, but was self-taught in French, Latin, and Greek. In 1776 he went to live at Liverpool; the next year he married, and about the same time he became a
Methodist.
From 1786 to 1789 Martindale was a local preacher, mainly at
Scorton in the
Wirral. In 1789 he was received as a Wesleyan minister, and remained in the regular itinerancy 27 years, when he was appointed governor of
Woodhouse Grove School,
Yorkshire (1816).
Martindale died of
cholera
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on 6 August 1824, while attending the Wesleyan conference at
Leeds.
Works
Martindale published, besides sermons:
* 'Elegy on the Death of Wesley,' 1791.
* 'Britannia's Glory,' a poem, 1793.
* 'Original Poems, Sacred and Moral,' 1806.
* 'Grace and Nature, a Poem in twenty-four Cantos,' translated from the French of
John William Fletcher, 1810.
* 'Dictionary of the Holy Bible,' 1818, 2 vols.
* 'Essay on the Eloquence of the Pulpit,' translated from the French of Joseph-Marie-Anne Gros de Besplas., 1819.
Family
Martindale was married to Margaret King, who died in 1840, and left three daughters: one of whom married
John Farrar; another was the wife of the Rev. James Brownell; and the third became matron of
Wesley College, Sheffield.
Notes
Attribution
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1756 births
1824 deaths
English Methodists
English translators
English male poets
English male non-fiction writers