Christian Biography: Life of the Rev. J. W. Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley; Abridged from the Narrative of Rev. J. Wesley; the Biographical Notes of Rev. W. Gilpin; and his Life by Rev. J. Benson. With Extracts from Rev. R. Cox. London: Religious Tract Society, c. 1830. [10426]
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Jean Guillaume de la Fléchère, aka Rev. John Fletcher (1729-85), a native of Nyon, Switzerland, of Huguenot stock, received orders in the Church of England in 1757. He was educated at Geneva, where he studied both philology and philosophy. He was a master of the French, German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages. Fletcher was closely associated with John Wesley in his labors, and was a man of most exemplary character. Fletcher was quickly shunned by higher society, including the clergy, because of his reproving of their sports and pastimes. He led a life of severe abstinence in order to save money to help the poor of his parish. In 1770 at the request of Lady Huntington he became president of her seminary for educating young men for the ministry.
“One of the holiest men that the Christian Church has seen in modern times.” – Dr. Williams.
“Fletcher was a man of heavenly temper; a saint in the ancient and high sense of the term, whose enthusiasm was entirely inimical with bitterness, and whose life and death are alike edifying.” – London Quarterly Review.
