Born: 1721, Brails­ford, Der­by­shire, Eng­land.

Died: March 18, 1819, Lew­is­ham, Kent, Eng­land.

Buried: Wes­ley­an cem­e­te­ry, City Road Cha­pel, Lon­don, Eng­land.

At age 18, Bake­well read Bos­ton’s Four­fold State, which turned his heart to God. He be­came an ar­dent evan­gel­ist, and in 1744 (the year of the first Meth­od­ist Con­fer­ence) he be­gan to preach. He moved to Lon­don short­ly af­ter, where he met the Wes­leys, Au­gus­tus Top­la­dy, J. Fletch­er, and other no­ta­bles of the time. Af­ter con­duct­ing the Green­wich Roy­al Park Acad­e­my for some years, he re­signed in fa­vor of his son-in-law, James Egan, and be­gan spend­ing much of his time preach­ing for the Wes­ley­ans.

Sources

Hymns

1. Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus
2. Jesus, Hail, Enthroned in Glory
3. Paschal Lamb, by God Ap­point­ed