Waller, David James
1835-1911; e.m. 1857
WM minister, born on 19 June 1835 at Nunthorpe, Cleveland. He spent thirty of his 54-year ministry (1881-1911) as Secretary of the WM Education Committee. He served on the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education and effectively represented Methodist views and interests in connection with the Voluntary Schools Act of 1897. He was closely associated with both Westminster and Southlands Colleges and played a major role in the re-organizing of Queenswood School in 1894. He was President of the 1895 Conference. He died in London on 5 September 1911.
His daughter Marion was appointed the first headmistress of the new Queenswood, but resigned after three years to marry a Scottish Free Church minister, Alexander McGaskill, and died in childbirth.
- Methodist Recorder, 7 & 14 Sept. 1911
- Arthur E. Sharpley, The Life of David James Waller, DD, consisting chiefly of selections from his journals (1913)