Joseph Butterworth 

Joseph Butterworth (1770-1826) was the son of John Butterworth (see entry above).  He was raised a Baptist but turned Methodist and became a successful publisher in London primarily works of law; he also served as M.P. for Coventry (1812-1818) and later for Dover (one of the first Methodist MPs), and was a leading prominent Evangelical and friend of Wilberforce.  In 1791 he married Anne Cooke, a member of the Baptist church in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.  He operated his publishing business, mostly in law, at 43 Fleet Street, first in partnership with Thomas Whieldon, inheriting his business upon his death. By the first decade of the nineteenth century, he had become a Methodist, having joined a committee in 1803 to defend the rights of Methodists in matters of law. He was general treasurer of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society from 1819 to 1826, although he was not supportive of the claims of the Methodists to independent church status. He lived in Bedford Square in his last years. He has a memorial in the Wesley Chapel, City Road, London.