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
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Rev. Charles Edwin Wansborough (1848-1908) | 1892-1894 | 12 |
Rev. William Henry Clogg | 1895-1897 | 12
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Rev. Thomas Ballans Nicholson (1851-) | 1898-1900 | 12 |
Rev. William Henry Clogg | 1901-1903 | 12
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Rev. John Edward Caine | 1904-1906 | 12
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Rev. Arthur Thomas Kinnings | 1907-1909 | 12
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Rev. Frederick Stuart Kirkness | 1910-1913 | 12
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Rev. John Carter | 1914-1917 | 12
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Rev. William Arthur Leonard Taylor | 1918-1921 | 6
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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”.