Presidents of Conference

Whilst each Conference elected a President and a Secretary, until 1842 the identity of the persons taking those positions is not generally recorded in the Minutes of Conference.

Year    President

1820   George Handford

1825   Thomas King

1826   James Bourne Esq

1829   James Bourne Esq

1842   James Bourne Esq

1843   John Garner

1844   William Clowes

1845   William Clowes

1846   William Clowes

1847   John Garner

1848   Thomas King

1849   Stephen Longdin

1850   John Garner

1851   John Garner

1852   John Garner

1853   Joseph Bailey Esq

1854   John Garner

1855   George Tetley

1856   Sampson Turner

1857   Thomas Bateman Esq

1858   Sampson Turner

1859   William Garner

1860   John Petty

1861   William Garner

1862   William Harland

1863   William Antliff

1864   James Garner

1865   William Antliff

1866   George Lamb

1867   Thomas Bateman Esq

1868   William Lister

1869   Phillip Pugh

1870   Moses Lupton

1871   James Garner

1872   James Macpherson

1873   Samuel Antliff

1874   William Rowe

1875   Robert Smith

1876   John Dickenson

1877   Thomas Smith

1878   Henry Phillips

1879   Thomas Newell

1880   Colin C McKechnie

1881   Charles Kendall

1882   Joseph Wood

1883   William Cutts

1884   George Lamb

1885   Ralph Fenwick

1886   John Atkinson

1887   Thomas Whitehead

1888   Thomas Whittaker

1889   Joseph Toulson

1890   John Hallam

1891   Joseph Ferguson

1892   James Travis

1893   John Stephenson

1894   John Wenn

1895   John Watson

1896   William Jones

1897   James Jackson

1898   John Smith

1899   William Goodman

1900   Joseph Odell

1901   H Bickerstaffe Kendall

1902   Thomas Mitchell

1903   Thomas H Hunt

1904   Robert Harrison

1905   George E Butt

1906   George Parkin

1907   Henry Yooll

1908   James Pickett

1909   Sir William P Hartley

1910   Samuel S Henshaw

1911   Edwin Dalton

1912   Thomas Jackson

1913   Joseph Ritson

1914   George Bennett

1915   John D Thompson

1916   Arthur T Guttery

1917   James T Parr

1918   William A Hammond

1919   James Watkin

1920   Matthew P Davison

1921   Samuel Horton

1922   Henry J Taylor

1923   George Armstrong

1924   Joseph T Barkby

1925   James Lockhart

1926   Albert L Humphries

1927   George Armitage

1928   John G Bowran

1929   James H Saxton

1930   William M Kelley

1931   Edward McLellan

1932   William Younger

References

B A Barber, A Methodist Pageant, 1932, p309

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