 He was a strong supporter of evangelicalism in the Church of England.He remained a friend of Dissenters (such as Methodists and Baptists) as well as Anglicans.Young churchmen and people struggling with faith sought his advice, including such well-known social figures as the writer and philanthropist Hannah More, and the young William Wilberforce, a Member of Parliament (MP) who had recently suffered a crisis of conscience and religious conversion while contemplating leaving politics.