Vincent Perronet

[1][2][3] David Perronet came to England in about 1680 shortly before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, was naturalised by act of parliament in 1708 and married Philothea Arther (or Arthur).

[4] Vincent Perronet, after receiving his earlier education at a school in the north of England, entered The Queen's College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A.

He encouraged a Methodist Society at Shoreham, headed by his unmarried daughter Damaris, entertained itinerant preachers, attended their sermons, and preached in his kitchen every Friday evening.

In 1769 he suffered a long illness, and, whilst recovering in January 1770, received visits from John Wesley and from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.

He died on 9 May 1785 in his ninety-second year and was buried at Shoreham by Charles Wesley, who preached a funeral sermon on the occasion.

[4] Perronet believed that he received many tokens of a special providence, and wrote a record of them, headed Some remarkable facts in the life of a person whom we shall call Eusebius, of which extracts were given in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine for 1799.

She died on 5 December 1763, in her seventy-fourth year, and was buried by John Wesley, who also visited Perronet in 1765 to comfort him after the loss of one of his sons.

[11] Of Perronet's two daughters, Damaris was born on 25 July 1727, and died unmarried on 19 September 1782; and Elizabeth married, on 28 January 1749, William Briggs, of the custom-house, the Wesleys' secretary or "book-steward".