John A. Vickers is retired as Head of Bognor Regis College, Department of Religious and Social Studies, in Bognor Regis, United Kingdom. He is an author, indexer, editor, and publisher. His books include: The Story of Canterbury Methodism; Thomas Coke: Apostle of Methodism; Methodism in a Cathedral City; The Journals of Dr. Thomas Coke; and in the children's Ladybird series, John Wesley, founder of Methodism. He has been a member of the Methodist Archives and History committee and of the Wesley History Society Executive, and Archivist for the Southampton Methodist District in Great Britian.