User:Imalderman/Mary Bosanquet Fletcher

Mary Bosanquet is an early Methodist preacher.

She married Wesley's chosen successor John Fletcher. Their marriage was to be short-lived, for Fletcher died less than four years later on 14 August 1785.[1] After his death, Mary Fletcher was allowed to continue living in the vicarage by the new vicar who was also the incumbent of Atcham parish near Shrewsbury, Henry Burton. Though John Wesley attempted to persuade Mrs. Fletcher to leave Madeley for a ministry with the Methodists in London, she refused, believing she was called to carry on her late husband's work in the parish. This she did for the next thirty years. She died in the parish and was buried in the same grave in December 1815. [2]