Beverly Waugh

Beverly Waugh (1789–1858) was an American who distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, Book Agent, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1836.

He was born on 28 October 1789 in Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.A., the son of a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. At the age of fifteen, he was converted to the Christian faith and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Alexandria, Virginia. It is believed that he was employed as a clerk in a government office or in business for three or four years, given the excellent penmanship and accuracy of his accounts throughout his life. From the time he was eighteen until shortly before his death, he kept a journal which, in the end, amounted to several manuscript volumes.

In his twentieth year, in 1809, Beverly entered the itinerant ministry of the Baltimore Annual Conference. After three years he was stationed in the city of Washington. Indeed, for eighteen years he filled a number of the most prominent appointments in the Baltimore Conference.

The Rev. Beverly Waugh was elected by his peers a delegate to the General Conferences of 1816 and 1820, representing the Baltimore Conference. For the 1824 General Conference, because he was in favor of an elected Presiding Eldership (which the majority of his conference did not approve), he was not elected a delegate.

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