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The My Methodist History website has compiled a list of all Methodist presidents from the 1932 deed of union to 2000, [9] and the My Primitive Methodist Ancestors site has collated the list for the Primitive Methodist presidents from their first conference up to union of 1932. [10]
Pages in category "Presidents of the Methodist Conference" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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John Anthony Newton CBE (28 September 1930 – 27 March 2017 [1]) was a Methodist minister, author, historian and former President of the Methodist Conference. [2] Newton was the president of the Wesley Historical Society. Newton was educated at Boston Grammar School in Lincolnshire. [1] Newton was a noted authority on the Wesley family.
Isaac Foot – Vice President of the Methodist Conference (1937–38) and President of the Liberal Party (UK) (1947) John Karefa-Smart – Sierra Leonese foreign minister and Methodist elder; Robert Newbald Kay – British Liberal MP. Also a member of the Methodist Conference who was important to the Methodist chapel in Acomb, North Yorkshire.
Byington's father, Justus, was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War, an itinerant Methodist Episcopal preacher, and later one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, becoming an early president of its Vermont Conference. At 7 years of age John first came under the conviction of sin, and at 18 (1816) was converted.
These pamphlets advocated reforms in the Wesleyan governing body. They also reflected on the proceedings of the conference and its committees in unmeasured terms, and complained of the personal ambition of Jabez Bunting and Robert Newton, two of the past presidents of the Methodist Conference.
Throughout history governmental proclamations often include religious language. In at least two cases, presidents saw fit to issue denials that they were atheists. At the same time, this was tempered, especially in early years, by a strong commitment to disestablishment. Several presidents especially stand out as exponents of this.