Edmund Stoney was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Stoney was born in Newport, Tipperary, Ireland, in 1790. Around 1812, he converted to Methodism, and soon began working as an exhorter and a class leader. In 1818 he emigrated to Upper Canada, settling in Burford, where he began work as a local preacher. In 1823, he began circuit riding, and was assigned to the Dumfries' circuit.[1]