https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Whitefield
George Whitefield, (born December 27 [December 16, Old Style], 1714, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England—died September 30, 1770, Newburyport, Massachusetts [U.S.]), Church of England evangelist who by his popular preaching stimulated the 18th-century Protestant revival throughout Britain and in the British American colonies. In his school and college days …