Crookes,William (2)
Crookes,William (2)
an English Wesleyan minister, was born at Barlborough, Derbyshire, Jan. 18,1803.. He was converted when seventeen; entered the ministry in 1825; was appointed to Jamaica, W.I., in 1827; returned home after eleven years of successful labor, and exercised his ministry in England for upwards of thirty years; became a supernumerary in 1871, first at Merthyr-Tydvil, afterwards in Chesterfield; and died at Old Whittington, Chesterfield, May 9, 1879. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1879, page 38.
