John A. Newton
John Anthony Newton CBE was a Methodist minister, author, historian and former President of the Methodist Conference. Newton was the president of the Wesley Historical Society. Newton was educated at Boston Grammar School in Lincolnshire.
Newton was a noted authority on the Wesley family. His 2002 book Susanna, Susanna Wesley and the Puritan Tradition in Methodism, is recognised as the authoritative biography of Susanna Wesley.