Charles Wesley (18 December 1707 – 29 March 1788) was an English leader of the Methodist movement and the brother of John Wesley.
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Charles Wesley was born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, England in 1707, the brother of John Wesley and the eighteenth child in his family. He was educated at Oxford, where he formed the "Holy Club" among his fellow students in 1729, studying how to live a devout Christian life. John Wesley and George Whitefield later joined the group, and he followed his father and brother into the Church of England in 1735. Charles and John did not always agree on questions relating to their beliefs, as Charles was opposed to a breach with Anglicanism. He ceased to travel in 1765, and he died in 1788.