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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Coke | | | First names | Thos. | | | Rank/ occupation | Methodist missionary | | | Death date | 3 May 1814 | | | Place of death | Passage to India  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Nov 1814 | | | Page number | 497 | | | Detail | On his voyage to India with six Missionaries intended for Ceylon and Java, Rev. Thos. Coke, LL.D. a very zealous and able divine, and most excellent man. Dr. Coke was born at Brecon in Wales, educated at Jesus College, Oxford, and entered into orders in the Eastablished Church. During the last 40 years he was most zealously and disinterestedly devoted himself to the Christian ministrey in the connexion of the late Mr. John Wesley; by whom, at the termination of the Revolutionary wars, he was appointed a superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. For the last 28 years he discharged, with unremitting diligence, the extensive duties of General Superintendant of the Methodist Missions; which so warmly engaged his active and incessant energies, that he many times crossed the Atlantic, visiting the West India Islands, and travelling through the United States. |
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