Percy C. (Percy Clough) Ainsworth

Percy Clough Ainsworth was an English Methodist minister and religious writer, born in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1873. Sources describe him as the son of the Rev. William Ainsworth, and later as a minister educated at London College and Didsbury College before being ordained in 1900.

He contributed to the Methodist Times and wrote devotional and sermonic works marked by a reflective, encouraging tone. Among the books associated with him are The Pilgrim Church and Other Sermons and The Threshold Grace: Meditations in the Psalms, both published around the end of his life and shortly afterward.

Ainsworth died in 1909 at the age of thirty-six. One family source says his life was cut short by typhoid fever, and it also notes that he preached at Trinity Methodist Church in Felixstowe and at Wesley Chapel in Birmingham. Though his career was brief, his writing clearly made enough of an impression to remain in print and in public-domain collections more than a century later.