Background
The son of Paul Martindale, he was born in 1756 at Moss Bank, near Street Helens, Lancashire.
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Career
He had little education slender education, but was self-taught in French, Latin, and Greek. 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 on 6 August 1824, while attending the Wesleyan conference at Leeds.
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 Review
James Brownell. And the third became matron of Wesley College, Sheffield.
