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The Late Greats

George Whitefield
by Rev Dr Jonathan Hustler

George Whitefield – Timeline
1714

1736 Whitefield
persuaded to take
holy orders

Whitefield born
in Gloucester

1732

Whitefield study at
Oxford, where he
meets the ‘Methodists’

1740 Whitefield’s
preaching tour in
New England, part of
the ‘Great Awakening’

1737 Whitefield’s

first trip to America
to establish the
orphanage in Georgia

1770

Whitefield dies in
America

1740-70

Extensive preaching
ministry