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Dunn, an expelled Wesleyan Methodist minister, was born at Mevagissey in Cornwall, 13 February 1798. His father, James Dunn, the master of a small trading vessel, made the acquaintance of the John Wesley in 1768, and became a class leader; with his crew he protected Adam Clarke from the fury of a mob in Guernsey in 1786, and he died at Mevagissey, 8 August 1842, aged 88.
The son Samuel received his education at Truro, under Edward Budd, who was afterwards the editor of the West Briton. In 1819 he was admitted a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and after passing the usual three years of probation, was received as a full minister, and volunteered for service in the Shetland Islands, where, in conjunction with the John Raby, he was the first minister of his denomination, and suffered many hardships. While here he wrote an interesting series of articles descriptive of the Orkney and Shetland islands (Wesleyan Methodist Magazine, 1822–5).
Dunn was afterwards stationed at Newcastle, Rochdale, Manchester, Sheffield, Tadcaster, Edinburgh, Camborne, Dudley, Halifax, and Nottingham successively, and at all these places proved a most acceptable preacher.
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