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THE MANX WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH RECORD 1893-

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A Monthly Journal of General and Local Methodist News. First published January, 1893. Price one penny. Douglas: Clucas and Fargher, Mona's Herald Office. The size of the page in 1903-4 was 270x215, and from 1905 onwards 292x230.
From October, 1932, the title was altered to " The Manx Methodist Church Record." The celebration of the Methodist Union took place in September, 1932.

The first issues contain articles on the history of Methodism in the Isle of Man by the Revs. W. T. Radcliffe, Humphrey Jutsum, and others, the former's " Manx Wesleyan Methodism " in the issues for January to April, 1893,being especially noteworthy. There are also interesting notes of the Peel fishing fleet in Ireland throughout Vols. 1 and 2, and a valuable feature up to the end of 1894 was the inclusion of portraits and biographical sketches of notable Manx Methodists, as follows:-

Volume 1.

Page

Rev. Humphrey Jutsum

3

Mr. J. R. Cowell, H.K

15

Rev. Hugh Price Hughes

27

Rev. Mark Guy Pearse

39

Mr. John Stevenson Moore

51

Rev. W. Maltby

63

Rev. J. Bampton Maltby

75

Mr. Willlam Goldsmith

87

Mr. Thomas Clague (Peel)

99

Rev. Simpson Johnson

111

Mr. Giles Metcalf

123

Rev. Robert Aitken

133

Volume 2.

Page

Mr. John Clucas (Foxdale)

1

Rev. Isaac Shimmin

9

Mrs. Kitto

17

Henry Thomas McIver (Douglas)

25

Mr. Robert Cowley, J.P

33

Charles Fenwick Reed

41

John Quayle (Castletown)

49

Rev. Thomas Waugh

57

Rev. William Spiers, M.A

65

Rev. Thomas Rippon

89

Volume 3.

Page

Miss Eleanor Brennan

2, 11, 18, 28

Rev. Dr. Moulton

32

Rev. James E. Hargreaves

66

Rev. Sidney Mees

66

Rev. H. C. Dean

67

Volume 1 averaged 14 to 16 pages per number; vols 2-12 averaged 8 pages; vols. 13-21 varied from 12 to 16; and from vol. 22 onwards the average was 24.
The price from the commencement up to 1919 was one penny, during 1920-21 1½d., and afterwards twopence.
The editors and dates of their retirements were as follows:-
Rev. T. Rippon, October, 1895.
Rev. Sidney Mees, October, 1898.
Rev. H. J. Sugden, October, 1901.
Rev. W. H. Heap, January, 1905.
Rev. Arthur Whetnall, October, 1907.
Rev. John W. Hall, March, 1910.
Rev. W. J. Hartley, October, 1913.
Rev. C. Copeland Smith, July, 1914.
Rev. J.Wesley Davies, September, 1916.
Rev. J. T. Salisbury.
Rev. R. W. Pickeregill, August, 1918.
R. G. Fargher(Douglas), July, 1933.
J. K. Gawne (Peel).


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