number of years. Historians call this the Great Awakening.
    Upon returning to England in 1741 he continued his work, which became a known as  the Calvinistic Methodist Association. During his lifetime Whitefield was known as the "leader and founder of Methodism." 
    In Wales he met and married a widow, 11 years his senior. He also became closely associated with the work of  Lady Huntington, and in his later years he opened several of the meetinghouses of her Connexion as well as the theological college at