Fletcher of Madeley

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John Fletcher was vicar of Madeley between 1760 and 1785. He was a figure of outstanding importance in the history of world Methodism. He was born Jean Guillaume de la Fléchére at Nyon on the north shore of Lake Geneva, Switzerland. His ancestors were Savoyard nobles, who settled in the Canton of Vaud. He went to England in 1752. While in England he met John and Charles Wesley, and was ordained deacon in the Church of England in 1757, and took priest's orders a week later.