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William Bramwell (c. February 1759 – 13 August 1818) was a Methodist itinerant preacher who led a successful Christian revival in Yorkshire.

Life
Born in Elswick, Lancashire, he was raised in a devout Anglican family. In pursuit of spiritual assurance, Bramwell first explored Roman Catholic devotions such as self-flagellation, before returning to the Church of England and preparing for confirmation. In Preston, a friend persuaded Bramwell to attend a Methodist meeting, where he was converted by the evangelical preaching; he soon enrolled as a member of a Methodist society in 1780. An encounter with Methodism's founder, John Wesley, in 1781 left a deep impression on Bramwell, and he took up local preaching – he was committed to the novel Wesleyan doctrine of entire sanctification.

Bramwell was received into full-time ministry in 1785. He was stationed first in Liverpool and then, successively, in Preston, Canterbury, Blackburn and Colne. In 1791, Bramwell returned to the North when he was stationed in the Dewsbury circuit, which was experiencing division. By the following year, such were the effects of his preaching that a revival spread from the town and throughout West Yorkshire. The revival began in 1793 and but diminished around 1797.

Bramwell became a close associate of Alexander Kilham. Through his evangelism, he established several societies throughout the North of England, in numerous towns including Birstal and latterly Manchester. For all his success, however, Bramwell's revivalist ministry has controversial. Jabez Bunting, then the dominant authority of the Methodist connexion, had little sympathy with Bramwell's ministry and expressed desire for Bramwell, Kilham and other revivalists to leave the Wesleyan Methodist Connexion. Amid the disarray following Wesley's death in 1791, Kilham founded the Methodist New Connexion, but Bramwell declined to join the new connexion and it soon disappeared.

He died suddenly in 1818, at the age of about 59.