Primitive Methodist minister, born at Lowestoft on 27 April 1867 into an Anglican family. His father, who was killed in a railway accident when his son was still young, was a cobbler. Educated at the National School, he was sent at the age of 13 to live with his Primitive Methodist uncle, a Swaffham grocer. In 1891 he offered for the Primitive Methodist ministry with the intention of going to Hartley College, but was persuaded to take pastoral charge at Reepham in the East Derham circuit. He was received into full connexion at Great Yarmouth in 1895. He became a member of the East Sussex Education Committee and was an examiner in religious knowledge. He served as the Conference Secretary in 1913 and was the Connexional Editor 1926 to 1931.

At Methodist Union in 1932 he became a member of the committee that in 1933 published the Methodist Hymn Book and also published The Devotional Use of the Methodist Hymn Book (1935); and also contributed to the 'Book of Offices'. Besides contributing to other denominational magazines, his other publications, included Abraham Lincoln (1921), his Hartley Lecture, Essays in Evangelism (1928); The Faith of a Christian (1931); The Great Good News (1936), twenty-nine studies on Mark's Gospel originally published in the Joyful News. Retiring to Wymondham, he died on 5 February 1943

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