minister and minor hymn writer. A younger son, Thomas Percival Bunting (1811–1886), was his biographer. His grandson Sir Percy William Bunting (1836–1911), son of T. P. Bunting, was a prominent liberal nonconformist and editor of the Contemporary Review. His granddaughter Sarah Amos (1841–1908), a daughter of T. P. Bunting, was a liberal political activist. Death and commemoration He died in 1858 and was interred in Wesley's Chapel. In 1986 a plaque was placed on his home at 30 Myddelton Square, London. References Further reading Bunting, T. P. & Rowe, G. S. The Life of Jabez Bunting, DD (1887) Karl, J. H. S. "The Interpretation of Jabez Bunting", Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society (1958) 31#6 pp 125–132' (1958) 31#7 pp 150–154 and (1959) 32#1 pp 13–17. Ward, W. R. "Bunting, Jabez (1779–1858)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 accessed 1 Oct 2016 doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3947 Primary sources Hayes, Alan & David Gowland (eds). Scottish Methodism in the Early Victorian period: The Scottish Correspondence of the Rev. Jabez Bunting, 1800–1857 (1981). External links c1845 photo 1779 births 1858 deaths Clergy from Manchester People educated at Manchester Grammar School English Methodist ministers 19th-century Methodist ministers Presidents of the Methodist Conference Burials at Wesley's Chapel