The Theological Trustees
Rev. William Theodore Aquila Barber
Born on January 4, 1858, in Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Rev. William Theodore Aquila Barber was the son of Rev. William Barber. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of London, a Doctor of Divinity from Dublin, and a Master of Arts from Cambridge. Throughout his career, he served as a Methodist minister.
President of the Conference: 1919
Read his entry in the Dictionary of Methodism
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Rev. Herbert Brook Workman
Rev. Herbert Brook Workman (1862–1951) was a prominent Methodist minister and historian. Educated at Kingswood School and Owens College, Manchester, he entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1885. Workman served as a circuit minister in England and Scotland until 1903, when he became the principal of Westminster College. A distinguished historian, Workman lectured at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee in 1916 and taught Methodist Church history at the University of Chicago in 1927. He published extensively on medieval church history and Methodism.
President of the Conference: 1930
Read his entry in the Dictionary of Methodism
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Rev. Frederick Luke Wiseman
Rev. Frederick Luke Wiseman was a significant figure in British Methodism. His leadership contributed to the development and direction of the Methodist Church during that period. ​
President of the Conference: 1933
Read his entry in the Dictionary of Methodism
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Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman
Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford (1870–1949), was a British politician who held various governmental positions. In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appointed him to mediate in a dispute between the Czechoslovak government and the Sudeten German Party, known as the Runciman Mission. The mission's report influenced the decisions leading up to the Munich Agreement. Runciman also served as Lord President of the Council from 1938 to 1939.
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Albert Edwin Reed
Albert Edwin Reed (1846–1920) was a British paper manufacturer. In 1894, he established a newsprint manufacturing company in Kent, which expanded to own seven mills by 1903. In 1904, his company supplied newsprint for the Daily Mirror. Reed was an original benefactor of Wesley House, Cambridge, contributing £5,000 (equivalent to approximately £225,000 in 2020). ​
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James Vanner Early
​1834-1920. Born in Witney to a family that had been Methodists since John Wesley preached there. He ran the family blanket-making business with brother, Charles William Early.
Portrait: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/james-vanner-early-324253
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Read the family entry in the Dicitionary of Methodism
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Obit: 2nd Oct 1920 (Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer)
The sudden death is announced of Mr James Vanner Early of Springfield Witney, well known to Wesleyan Methodists as one of the treasurers of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society. Mr Early had held that post for the past eight years in conjunction with Mr Williamson Lamplugh and, in addition to eminent business qualifications, he brough to the work a keen enthusiasm for the missionary cause. He had personally visited parts of the mission field, and he was to have shorted shortly upon another missionary tour. Two of his four sons are missionaries. Mr Early, who was 66 years of age, was a blanket manufacturer at Witney and married a daughter of the late Mr Thomas Cole of Sheffield.