Christianity • Protestantism The Methodist Reform Church was a Christian denomination that was formed in 1849 in England by a breakaway from the Wesleyan Methodists.
[1] The expelled ministers and first leaders of the Wesleyan Reformers were James Everett, William Griffith and Samuel Dunn.
[1] In March 1850, 400 delegates met at the Albion Chapel, Moorfields, London to establish a new connexion.
The remaining members formed the Wesleyan Reform Union in 1859.
William and Catherine Booth, the co-founders of the Salvation Army, were members for a time in early adulthood.