Introduction

Biography

Wingrove lived for ma­ny years at Steyn­ing, Sus­sex, and was gov­er­nor of the poor-house there.

He used to preach in his own house, and oc­ca­sion­al­ly in sur­round­ing vil­lag­es. He was con­nect­ed with Lady Hunt­ing­don and the ear­ly Me­tho­dists.

The in­scrip­tion on his tomb­stone, now near­ly oblit­er­at­ed, in­clud­ed these lines:

The vile, the lost,
He calls to him:
Ye trembling sinners, hear;
The righteous
In their own esteem
Have no acceptance here.
If sin and guilt
Afford a plea,
And may obtain a place;
Then sure the Lord
Will welcome me,
And I shall see his face.

Works

• A hymn book print­ed at Bath in 1875
• Wingrove’s Opin­ion, or a Few Lines to a Bro­ther Sol­dier (Steyn­ing, Sus­sex: March 9, 1792)