Balmer, William Turnbull ca. 1923-1951

Balmer William Turnbull 1866-1928

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Balmer, William Turnbull

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William Turnbull Balmer was born at Philadelphia, a mining village near Durham in 1866. He was educated locally, was trained as a teacher at Westminster College, Oxford and became Headmaster of the Wesleyan School at Tenby in South Wales. In 1899 he became an ordained minister of the Wesleyan Church and in 1901 went out to West Africa as an educational missionary. He taught at Richmond College in Freetown, at the Mfantsipim High School, Cape Coast, Ghana and at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone. ...

Wesleyan methodist missionary society

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The work of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society began in Australia in 1818 when the Rev. Samuel Leigh arrived in Sydney to found a mission for convicts in New South Wales. Missionaries from each District were required to meet in an annual Synod, the minutes of which were sent home to London. From the description of Records of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, 1843 [manuscript]. [1843] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 277138718 British society which m...