Samuel Wesley the Younger was a poet and a Church of England cleric.
Background
Wesley was the eldest son of the cleric and poet Samuel Wesley and of Susanna Annesley Wesley. He was born in Spitalfields, London in either 1690 or 1691. He said he was 18 years old in 1711 and he wrote a letter in which he said he was born in 1690.
Education
Wesley was educated at Westminster School before entering Christ Church, Oxford in 1711 where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1715 and a Master of Arts
Career
He was the brother of John Wesley and Charles His tombstone said he died in his 49th year, which would put his birth in 1691. in 1718. He was ordained and became head usher at Westminster School for 20 years from 1713 to 1733). After that he was master of Blundell"s School, Tiverton, where he died after a short illness on 6 November 1739.
He is buried in the Tiverton churchyard.
Wesley married Ursula Berry (died c1742), daughter of the Reverend John Berry, vicar of Walton, Norfolk. He was never a Methodist.
1723 The Battle of the Sexes. A Poem. 1726 Pastoral.
1726 The Iliad in a Nutshell: or, Homer"s Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
1736 The Descriptive: a Miltonick. After the Manner of the Moderns. 1736 ca.Wroote: a Heroic Poem.
Humbly inscribed to Mission Mehetabel.