Cusworth, Joseph

Cusworth, Joseph an English Wesleyan minister, was born near Rotherham, Yorkshire. He was converted in Sheffield in 1804; in 1807 was received into the ministry; from 1843 was governor of Kingswood School, and to him is due the erection of the noble building at Lansdown, Bath; and for twenty-seven years was one of the treasurers of the Home Mission and Contingent Fund. He died March 19, 1857, in the seventy-first year of his age. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1857.