(Samuel, 1662-1735) was Rector of Epworth in Lincolnshire. He is chiefly remembered as the father of John and Charles Wesley. But in Swift's day he had attained some little note as the author of some poems, including one whose title is enough to shew its character, The Life of Christ, an Heroic Poem. Garth has gibbeted him in a couplet in the Dispensary —
'Had Wesley never aimed in verse to please
We had not ranked him with our Ogilbys.'