William Pennington Burgess
William Pennington Burgess [1]
an English Wesleyan minister, was born in Liverpool, Dec. 3, 1790, being the son of Rev. Joseph Burgess. He was educated at Kingswood School (1799-1803); was classical instructor in Pocock's Academy in Bristol (1803-11); became private tutor; was received into the ministry in 1842, and labored for forty-two years, chiefly in the west of England; became a supernumerary at Plymouth in 1856; and died July 23, 1868. Mr. Burgess was gifted with superior endowments, an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and untiring industry. He was a solid scholar. Catholicity of principle, inflexible truthfulness, open-handed beneficence, a warm heart, under a cold exterior, and a profound humility, were traits of this useful minister. He published Sermons on the Doctrine, Experience, and Practice of Primitive Christianity (Lond. 1824, 1830; 3d ed. 1836, 12mo):-Essays on the Principles and Doctrines of Christianity: - Wesleyan Hymnology (2d ed. Lond. 1846, 18mo-valuable):-Memoirs of Joseph Burgess (1853):- Occasional Sermons. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1868, p. 37; Wesl. Meth. Magazine,. 1873, p. 481, 577; Everett, Wesleyan Centenary Takings, i, 47; Osborn, Wesl. Bibliog.
