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This is a factual account of the life of Rev, John William Fletcher, who was born Jean Guillaume de la Fléchère in Switzerland in 1729. Fletcher emigrated to England in 1750 and there became an Anglican vicar. He began to work with John Wesley, becoming a key interpreter of Wesleyan theology in the 18th century and one of Methodism's first great theologians.