John Charles Ryle, first Bishop of Liverpool, was one of the most influential evangelical clergymen of the nineteenth century: a popular platform speaker and prolific tract writer whose books are still widely read across the globe.

In 1873 he dictated an account of his own early life and never published it. Edited by Andrew Atherstone, this critical edition of the manuscript is a rich and unparalleled record of his upbringing, his conversion, the family bankruptcy that redirected his life, and his first years in parish ministry. Hardcover.