Lives of Illustrious ShoemakersWinks, W. E. (William Edward)
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Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
Winks, W. E. (William Edward)
Shoemakers -- Biography
Bradburn, Samuel, and Charles Wesley, 66
and the clergyman, 68, 69
anecdotes of early preaching, 68
born at Gibraltar, 54
called to be a preacher, 61
circuits he travelled in, 64, 65, 66, 71
death and burial, 71
early life at Chester, 55-60
eloquence as a preacher, 67, 68
his conversion, 55-57
his father pressed into the army, 54
his first sermon, 61
his marriage with Betsy Nangle, 65
his marriage with Sophia Cooke, 66
his mother a Welshwoman, 54
his mother's death, note, 63
his wit and humor, anecdotes of, 70, 71
offered the pastorate of an Independent Church, 66
overtaken in a fault, 71
President of Wesleyan Conference, 67
Brizzio, Francesco, 208
Bruce's "Elegy written in Spring," 322
Buch, Henry Michael, "Good Henry," 201-203
Bunyan and Bradburn compared, 56
Burnet, Rev. John, 259-262
Bushey Park and Timothy Bennett, 213
Byron, Lord, allusion to Gifford, 93
Campion's "Delightful History of ye Gentle Craft," 193, 199, 242, 259
Capellini, _il Caligarino_, 207
Carey and Thomas sail for India, 142
Carey, Eustace, "Life of Dr. Carey," 131
William, abilities as a shoemaker, 131
and Rev. John Ryland, 131, 138
an enthusiast, 131, 132
apprenticed to a shoemaker, 133
baptized by Rev. J. Ryland, 135
D.D. conferred on him by Brown University, 144
first Bengali New Testament, 143
first marriage a mistake, 137
first sermon and pastorate, 135
first study of languages, 132, 133, 135
first thought of missions to heathen, 138
his death, 146
Carey, William his famous sermon at Nottingham, 141
his self-sacrificing spirit, 143
life briefly sketched, 129, 130
life in India, 142, 146
lives at Moulton, 137, 139
"Only a Cobbler," 132
pamphlet on Missions, 140
parentage and birth and childhood, 131, 132
Professor of Oriental Languages,
Calcutta, 129, 143
removes to Leicester, 140
Carlisle, Gifford's guardian, 205
Carlyle on _Hans Sachs_, 76, 77, 205
Thomas, and Thomas Cooper, 184
Carter, Edward, Esq., friend to John Pounds, 151, 157
Castell, Richard, "Ye Cocke of Westminster," 210
Caxton Printing Establishment and S. Drew, 121
Chambers's "Book of Days," 217
Channing on Noah Worcester, 271, 273
Charles, Rev. Thomas, of Bala, 139
Chartists and Thomas Cooper, 179, 182
Chartist Newspapers edited by Thomas Cooper, 181
Christ's Hospital and Richard Castell, 121
Claflin, William, Governor of Massachusetts, 277
Clarke, Dr. Adam, and Samuel Drew, 114, 122
Coke, Dr., and S. Drew, 122, 123
Coleridge, S. T., and Boehmen, 206
and shoemakers, 189
Cooksley, Dr., Gifford's friend, 80, 81
William, son of Dr. Cooksley, Gifford's will in favor of, 86
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