Samuel Medley (minister)

Guy Medley was married the youngest daughter of William Tonge, schoolmaster at Enfield; and was a close friend of James Hervey.

In 1755, however, he obtained his freedom on entering the Royal Navy, from which he was discharged after being wounded in the Battle of Lagos on 18 August 1759.

Medley worked among the seamen of the port of Liverpool; his methods of preaching were disliked by Gilbert Wakefield; but his daughter collected up some of his witticisms, and Robert Halley ranked him as a great preacher.

[1] Medley visited London yearly, preaching at the Surrey Chapel, Southwark and Whitefield's Tabernacle, Tottenham Court Road.

Their son was the painter Samuel Medley,[1] whose grandson was the surgeon Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet.