Bunting

Bunting, JABEZ, Wesleyan minister, was born at Manchester in 1779, and in 1799 entered the ministry, in which he was very successful. He was president of the conference in 1820, and again in 1828, 1836, 1844. In 1835 he was chosen president of the Wesleyan Theological Institute, and he acted as second secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society for upwards of twenty years. He was the chief authority in all matters relating to the government and polity of Wesleyan Methodism. He died 16th June 1858. See his Life by his son (1887).