Samuel Wesley (poet, died 1739)

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The Reverend Samuel Wesley
Portrait of by Nathaniel Parr (Poems on Several Occasions, 1743)
Born	(1691-02-10)10 February 1691 Spitalfields, London
Died	6 November 1739(1739-11-06) (aged 48) Tiverton, Devon
Other names	Samuel Wesley the Younger; Samuel Wesley Junior
Occupation	Anglican priest
Known for	Christian poetry

Samuel Wesley the Younger (10 February 1690 or 1691 – 6 November 1739) was a poet, teacher and an Anglican cleric. He was the eldest of the Wesley brothers—with younger brothers John and Charles—but did not play a notable role in the nascent Methodist movement.