an English Wesleyan minister, famous for his zeal, eccentricity, and success, was born at Workington, Cumberland, in 1788. He was converted under the Methodist ministry, applied himself to study, became a local preacher-preaching and being persecuted everywhere and was received by the Conference in 1815. His circuits were principally in the north of England and in Scotland. After a ministry of remarkable earnestness, he reluctantly retired from the active service in 1838, residing in Berstal, and died Nov. 23,1851. See Minutes of the British Conference, 1852, p. 11; West, Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers, p. 187 sq. (Lond. ed.); Stevens, Hist. of Methodism, 3, 294-304: Steele, Life and Labors of Hodgson Casson (Lond. 1854).