Was Samuel Wesley the founder of the Methodist Church?

Context: Samuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some "the English Mozart".

Born in Bristol, he was the son of noted Methodist and hymnodist Charles Wesley, the grandson of Samuel Wesley and the nephew of John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church.

Answer: No, John Wesley, his uncle, was the founder of the Methodist Church.