Tyerman's Preaching Circuit History 1844-1864

We know that Tyerman was preacher on the following Methodist circuits, aged 24-44:

1844 Thirsk

1845-1847 Iver/Uxbridge

1848-1850 London (Lambeth) with three others

1851 Bristol (Langton Street) with two others

1852-1854 Newcastle with three others

1855-1857 Sheffield (Norfolk St) with three others

1858 Manchester (Irwell Street) with three others

1859 Manchester (Irwell Street) with five others

1860 Manchester (Gravel Lane) with Luke Wiseman

1861 Liverpool (South) with four others

1862 Liverpool (South) with five others

1863 Liverpool (Wesley) with two others

1864 London (Brixton Hill) Superintendent

Dictionary of Methodism Entry

Wesleyan Methodist minister, born on 26 February 1820 at Osmotherly and trained at Didsbury College. His active ministry ended after 19 years because of ill health, but he devoted 25 years to Methodist history and wrote a number of standard works, including lives of Samuel Wesley senior (1866), John Wesley (1871), John Fletcher ('Wesley's designated successor') (1882) and George Whitefield (1876-7) and The Oxford Methodists (1873). He died in London on 20 March 1889.

His second wife was the sister of Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge (prosperous draper of Newcastle upon Tyne and local preacher, staunch pillar of Wesleyan Methodism).

McLintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia Entry

Luke Tyerman

Tyerman, Luke English Wesleyan minister, was born at Osmotherly,* February 6, 1820, in 1842 entered the ministry, continuing to preach until 1864, when he became supernumerary, and devoted his attention to literary work. He died March 20, 1889. He was author of The Life and Times of the Reverend Samuel Wesley: The Life and Times of the Reverend John Wesley (3 volumes): — The Oxford Methodists: — Wesley's Designated Successor:The Life of the Reverend John Fletcher: — The Life of the Reverend Geo. Whitefield.

*Village in N Yorkshire. John Wesley preached at the Barter Table on the green on several occasions, the first in 1745. In 1754 a Methodist Chapel was erected in Chapel Yard.

Martin Wellings Essay

An essay by Wellings on Tyerman appears in Making Evangelical History: Faith, Scholarship and the Evangelical Past.

See here.