Whitefield, George (1714-1770)
Place of Birth: Born in Gloucester of an innkeeper
Description: English evangelist
Education and Conversion: Educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he associated with the Wesleys in “Holy Club”; there experienced an evangelical conversion
Christian Work: Ordained a deacon; preached firstly in Gloucester, then in London; went to Georgia with Wesleys, with them from 1737 to 1741; when churches closed to him, preached out-of-doors up to 20 sermons a week; traveled great distances; adopted Calvinistic view of salvation, which differed from Wesley's Arminian view, so parted (1743); itinerant preaching in Europe and America and throughout the United Kingdom
