Wesleyan Ministers Vermont Road (1838-1921)

Wesleyan Ministers Living in Vermont Road

Minister	Residency in Vermont Road	House Number
Rev. Joseph Cornelius Wright (1838-1912)	1883-1885	10
Rev. George Charter (1843-)	1883-1891	12
Rev. Charles Edwin Wansborough (1848-1908)	1892-1894	12
Rev. William Henry Clogg	1895-1897	12
Rev. Thomas Ballans Nicholson (1851-)	1898-1900	12
Rev. William Henry Clogg	1901-1903	12
Rev. John Edward Caine	1904-1906	12
Rev. Arthur Thomas Kinnings	1907-1909	12
Rev. Frederick Stuart Kirkness	1910-1913	12
Rev. John Carter	1914-1917	12
Rev. William Arthur Leonard Taylor	1918-1921	6

The Ministers and their Neighbourhood Endeavours

They ran the Wesleyan Literary Society which included participation from Vermont Road residents and entailed interesting activities such as talks on Mountaineering in Siberia and musical recitals by the vicars’ sons. They ran the Foreign and Bible Society with its centenary in 1902 held byArthur Taylor at 6 Vermont Road. They participated in the ‘Band of Hope’ part of the UK Temperance Movement with a UK membership in 1897 of over 3 million people. Members were under 16. Their aims were reflected in these quotations: “We long to save the boys and girls from the drink curse which blights so many lives” and “this is a good work, and is greatly needed even in Norwood”.