Crankshaw, John Weir

Crankshaw, John Weir an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Adlington, near Bolton. He was converted at nine; began to preach at sixteen; spent three years at the Didsbury Institution; took his first circuit in 1847; spent fifteen years in the active work; and died at Bristol, January 22, 1869, in the forty-fourth year of his age. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1869, page 18.