Introduction

Biography

At age 18, Bake­well read Bos­ton’s Four­fold State, which turned his heart to God. He be­came an ar­dent ev­an­gel­ist, and in 1744 (the year of the first Me­tho­dist Con­fer­ence) he be­gan to preach.

He moved to Lon­don short­ly af­ter, where he met the Wes­leys, Au­gus­tus Top­la­dy, J. Flet­cher, and oth­er not­ables of the time.

After con­duct­ing the Green­wich Roy­al Park Aca­de­my for some years, he re­signed in fa­vor of his son-in-law, James Egan, and be­gan spend­ing much of his time preach­ing for the Wes­ley­ans.