Axel threlfall biography of william hill
• Axel Threlfall, Editor-at-Large, Reuters, United Kingdom.
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Threlfall, William
The development of early Wesleyan Methodism in a diversity of regions in southern Africa is associated with the missionary William Threlfall, despite the fact that he was only in southern Africa for the last four years of his short life.
A review of his life reveals much about early 19th-century Methodism in England and its expansion in Africa.
Threlfall in England
William Threlfall was born at Hollowforth, Lancashire, England near Woodplumpton, Preston on 6 June, 1799.
His father, Richard, had left the Church of England and identified openly with Methodism thereby making the family home a center for local Methodist activity.
In the first step towards the founding of a great family business was taken when the widow of a Bedfordshire farmer paid.The family was one of stable financial resources. Consequently, William received a good early education and can be considered very much a gentleman even though he did not attend Oxford or Cambridge. William was converted when sixteen while hearing a local Methodist preacher speaking on the Parable of the Prodigal Son:
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