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Agnes Smyth

1754 – 1783

(fl. 1764–1790), Methodist preacher

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Lived 1754 – 1783 (aged 28–29). Agnes Smyth was a British preacher.

Agnes Smyth or Agnes Higginson (c, 1755 – 22 May 1783) was an Irish and English (fl. 1764–1790) Methodist preacher.

Life Smyth was born in Lisburn with a family name of Higginson in about 1755. When she was fifteen she married the preacher Edward Smyth. That year Smythe became a Methodist and she convinced her husband, who was a curate in Ballyculter, of this approach to Christianity. Agnes was enthusiastic and she abandoned fancy dresses and frivolity and she was determined to preach whenever the opportunity arose. Her husband's patron Lord Bangor objected to their approach and accused Edward of incorrect teaching. Her husband was found not guilty in court but nevertheless they lost their living in 1776 and the following year Edward's license to preach was taken away.

Edward was invited to preach by John Wesley in 1782 and after returning from recovering from an illness in Ireland, Agnes also returned to work with the English Methodists. Agnes served as a curate in London in 1782. Smyth died the following year in Bath in 1783.

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1754, Lisburn
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Agnes Higginson

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Who was Agnes Smyth?

(fl. 1764–1790), Methodist preacher

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Agnes Smyth was born in 1754 in Lisburn.

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Agnes Smyth died on 22 May 1783 in Bath.

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Agnes Smyth was a preacher.

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Agnes Smyth was British.

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· Wikipedia: Agnes Smyth

· Wikidata: Q18954029

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