Education
After a false start in medicine, he studied theology, and in 1863 entered the Wesleyan ministry.
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Career
His first post on leaving Didsbury College was in Leeds and over the next twenty or so years, he was appointed by the Methodist Conference to ministries in Brixton Hill, Ipswich, Bedford, Highbury, Westminster, Launceston, and Bristol. lieutenant was during a two-year ministry at Ipswich that he began to think of writing and from 1870 until his death, he published upwards of forty books and at least an equal number of booklets, tracts and articles, most of which had a world-wide circulation. The best-selling Daniel Quorm and his Religious Notions was read by all levels of society.
These tours brought him into contact with Cornish communities in North America, Australasia and South Africa.
After retiring from the Mission in 1903, he continued to preach, lecture and write, spending more and more time in Cornwall towards the end of his days. Four months before his death on New Year"s Day, 1930, he was made a bard of Gorseth Kernow (the Cornish Gorsedd), at Carn Brea, taking the name Pyscajor a Dus (Fisher of Men).
His writings include devotional works and semi-religious tales, especially of Cornish life. Some of the best known are:
Mister Horn and his friends.
Or, Givers and Giving
Daniel Quorm and his Religious Notions (1874-1875), of which several hundred thousand copies were printed in many languages
Some Aspects of the Blessed Life (1887)
Elijah, the Manitoba of God (1891)
The Gentleness of Jesus (1898)
The Story of a Roman Soldier (1899)
Christ"s Cure for Care (1902)
West Country Songs (1902)
Bridgetstow (1907)
The Prophet"s Raven (1908)
A Village Down West (1924)
The Ship where Christ was Captain (1926)
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, the women"s rights campaigner, was to describe him as "the strongest influence upon the first half of my life".
