Miles Martindale

The son of Paul Martindale, he was born in 1756 at Moss Bank, near St Helens, Lancashire.

In 1789 he was received as a Wesleyan minister, and remained in the regular itinerancy 27 years, when he was appointed governor of Woodhouse Grove School, Yorkshire (1816).

[1] Martindale died of cholera on 6 August 1824, while attending the Wesleyan conference at Leeds.

[1] Martindale published, besides sermons:[1] Martindale was married to Margaret King, who died in 1840, and left three daughters: one of whom married John Farrar; another was the wife of the Rev.

James Brownell; and the third became matron of Wesley College, Sheffield.