Connexional evangelist, sometimes known as 'the Yorkshire Firebrand'. He was born at Knottingley on 29 July 1901 and brought up at Kexborough, where his Sunday School teacher was the popular evangelist William Challenger. Converted in 1919 he became a local preacher in Barnsley (Ebenezer) UM Circuit. In 1926 he went to Cliff College, where he came under the influence of Samuel Chadwick, 'Gipsy' Smith and others.. Before becoming a full-time evangelist he had worked first in the coal-pit and then on the railways. From 1931 to 1966 he was employed as a Connexional Evangelist, including both beach missions and open-air cinema vans, and he was involved in the Christian Commando Campaigns of the 1940s. Despite retiring in 1962, he retained his connections with the Home Missions Department until his death on 23 March 1983.

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