The founder of the sect of Calvinistic Methodists, was born in Gloucestershire, was educated at the Crypt School there, and at Pembroke College, Oxford, and first displayed there his extraordinary powers as an eloquent and forcible preacher. He worked with the Wesleys in Georgia in America, until differences arose, which divided the Methodists into two sects, and he died the rival of Wesley, near Boston, in the United States.
DR. TOBIAS SMOLLETT,
Born 1721.—Died 1771.—George I.—George II.—George III.
Born in Scotland, was a physician, but is best known as the author of a very poor continuation of Hume’s History of England, and very powerful and striking novels, the talent of which is defaced by coarseness and want of religious principle. He died at Leghorn.
JAMES BRINDLEY,
Born 1716.—Died 1772.—George I.—George II.—George III.
A mechanic of extraordinary abilities, born at Thornsett, in Derbyshire. He planned the Bridgewater canal from Worsley to Manchester, and several other great works of inland navigation.
ROBERT LORD CLIVE.
Born 1725.—Died 1774.—George I.—George II.—George III.
A famous General in the East India Company’s Service, born at Styche, in Shropshire. He fought the French under Count Lalley, and took from them Ponticherry and Chandanagore. He defeated the Nabob of Bengal, Surajah Dowlah, who put 146 English prisoners into the Black Hole of Calcutta—twenty feet square—and after the battle of Plassey he secured for England the Empire of India. Lord Clive was called by the Hindoos “The Daring in War.” He was impeached for using his position to enrich himself, but acquitted, and committed suicide.