William Grimshaw. was admitted sizar in 1726 and scholar in 1727; BA 1729/30. He had several churches and married in 1742 but his wife died and he went through a spiritual conversion to become a pronounced evangelical. In May 1742 he became perpetual curate of Howarth in Yorkshire, He worked strenuously for 20 years. He preached around the countryside. He stopped the Howarth horse races and is reputed to have driven his parishioners to church with a horsewhip emptying the public houses. He was at peace with all and intimate with the Wesleys, Whitfield and Henry Venn. He died in 1763 aged 52.
