Martha Thompson (1731–1820) was an English Methodist.[1][2] She was a housemaid in London, and was converted to Methodism after hearing John Wesley preach in Moorfields. Thompson was declared insane and sent to Bedlam, but Wesley later freed her and rode with her back to her hometown of Preston. There she became a founder of Methodism in the region.
Thompson paired up with Ann Cutler and the two evangelists would claim converts who had witnessed Thompson's singing and Cutler's praying.[3]
Thompson's story was told in the 1976 musical "Ride! Ride!", written by Alan Thornhill and scored by Penelope Thwaites.[4][5]
Referencesedit
^Taylor, John. Martha Thompson, the first Methodist in Preston. London: Charles H. Kelly, [between 1889 and 1907].
^McCutchan, Robert Guy. Our Hymnody: A Manual of The Methodist Hymnal, 2nd ed. New York/Nashville: Abingdon/Cokesbury Press (1942) p. 91
^Rack, Henry D. (2004). "Cutler, Ann (1759–1794), hand-loom weaver and Methodist evangelist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67658. Retrieved 13 February 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Ride ! Ride!". www.bardic-music.com. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
^ "Ride! Ride! An Australian Premiere Production". rideride.8m.com. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
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