Bunting Jabez

Bunting, Jabez, Wesleyan minister, was born in 1779 in Manchester. President of the Wesleyan Conference in four different years, and in 1835 appointed President of the Wesleyan Theological Institute, he became the leading authority on all questions of Church government in the body he guided. On the death of Richard Watson he also became head of the Wesleyan Missions. He died in 1858 in London.