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L. (Luke) Tyerman

1819–1889

A Wesleyan minister turned prolific historian, he devoted his later years to tracing the lives of major early Methodist figures in rich, document-heavy detail. His books on John Wesley, George Whitefield, and other eighteenth-century evangelicals helped shape how later readers understood the rise of Methodism.

7 Audiobooks

The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 2 (of 3)

The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 2 (of 3)

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley

The life and times of the Rev. Samuel Wesley

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

The Oxford Methodists : Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others

The Oxford Methodists : Memoirs of the Rev. Messrs. Clayton, Ingham, Gambold, Hervey, and Broughton, with biographical notices of others

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 2 (of 2)

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 2 (of 2)

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 1 (of 3)

The life and times of the Rev. John Wesley, M.A., founder of the Methodists. Vol. 1 (of 3)

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

Wesley's Designated Successor

Wesley's Designated Successor

by L. (Luke) Tyerman

About the author

Born in Osmotherley in 1820, Luke Tyerman was an English Wesleyan minister who entered the ministry in 1842. After years of preaching, he became a supernumerary in the 1860s and gave much of his energy to literary work, building a reputation as a careful and industrious historian of early Methodism.

Tyerman is best remembered for substantial biographical studies of key Methodist and evangelical figures, including Samuel Wesley, John Wesley, George Whitefield, and John Fletcher. Modern scholarship notes both the scale of his documentary research and the strong convictions he brought to his subjects, which makes his work valuable not only for the stories it tells but also for what it reveals about nineteenth-century Methodist historical writing.

He died on March 20, 1889. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources checked here, so no profile image is included.