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SAMUEL BACHE, see Birmingham, Church <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Messiah.
JOHN PALMER, b. 1801, in Killotteran, Co. Waterford ; ed. Trinity Coll., Dublin ; B.A.
Dublin ; tutor, Presbyterian Coll., Caermar<strong>the</strong>n, 1831-1832 ; min. Caermar<strong>the</strong>n, Darkgate,
1831-1832 ; Dudley, 1833-1852 ; Colonial Treasurer, Island <strong>of</strong> Dominica, 1853-
1866; m. (I) (1825) Jessie, daughter <strong>of</strong> John Dowse Langley, <strong>of</strong> Ballyduff, Co.
Waterford ; Issue, Aphra (d. 1854) ; (2) Jane, daughter <strong>of</strong> Alexander Gordon, <strong>of</strong>
Straits, nr. Dudley ; Issue, Henry Gordon (B. 16 March, 1838, B.A., rector <strong>of</strong>
Kilnahue, Co. Wexford), Mary (d. 1854).
d. 8 March, 1869, at Waterford.
cf; Notes by Rev. Henry Gordon Palmer, 1898; Dudley, Old Meeting-house Register.
RICHARD SHAEX, b. I November, 1817, at Crix, nr. Cheln~sford ; ed. Glasgow, York,
M. C., 1838-1840 ; M.A. Gins., 1837 ; min. Lancaster, 1842-1845 ; Edinburgh, 1845-
1852 ; Dudley, 1852-1854 ; Royston, 1855-1894 ; nz. (3 June, 1850) Janet, daughter
<strong>of</strong> James Cunningham, <strong>of</strong> Bonnington, Edinburgh (widow <strong>of</strong> Wm. Hutchinson).
d. 24 January, 1894; bur. Royston Cemetery.
SAMUEL COULTER DAVISON, b. [1823] ; ed. London, University Coll., Heidelberg, Berlin ;
B.A. Lond, Ph.D. Neirtelberg; tutor, Caermar<strong>the</strong>n Pres. Coll., 1847-1856 ; min.
Dudley, 1857- 1860.
d. 23 January, 1874, zt. 51.
cf. Inq., 1874, p. 78 ; Jeremy, p. 75.
JOHN THOMAS, G. 14 June, 1833, at Stockport ; ed. Cambridge, St. John's Coll. ; M.A.
Cantab. ; curate, St. George's, Manchester, and Irsden ; min. Dudley, 1860-1861 ;
Hastings, February-September, 1862 ; Huddersfield, 1862-1884.
d. 25 October, 1884.
cf; C.R., 1860, p. 584; U.A., 1885, p. 29.
MATTHEW GIBSON, b. 23 October, 1819, at Antrim ; ed. Belfast, -1841 ; min. Kidder-
minster, 1842-1854; Swansea, 1854-1858 ; Sale, 1858-1861 ; Dudley, 1861-1886 ; Evesham,
without charge, 1886-1894; nz. (26 July, 1844) Sophia, third daughter <strong>of</strong> George Talbot,
junr., <strong>of</strong> Kidderminster; Issue, Sophia Louisa, Eleanor (m. Philip Arthur Cliff),
George Talbot and Edward Talbot.
d. 6 August, 1896; bur. Evesham.
cf. Record, p. 167.
H~~ROLD RYLETT, b. 4 February, 1851, at Horncastle ; ed. U.H.M.B., 1871, 1874-1877 ;
Owen's Coll., 1876-1877 ; min. Reading, November, 1877-December, 1878 ; Moneyrea,
1879-1884 ; Maidstone, 1884-1887 ; Dudley, 1887-1889 ; Hyde, Flowery Field, 1889- ;
m. (I) (3 September, 1872) Annie ((2. 1873)) daughter <strong>of</strong> Charles Martin, <strong>of</strong> Hay
Mills ; (2) (7 June, 1880) Louisa, daughter <strong>of</strong> David Boucher, <strong>of</strong> Moneyrea, Co.
Down ; Issue, Ashby Theodore (b. 1881)) Gertrude Sabina (6. 1882)) Stopford Harold
(6. 1884).
cf; Record, p. 73 ; Reyrzold's Newspape?., 16 May, 1897.
JOHN BRIGGS LLOYD, b. 6 March, 1836, at Nottage, S.W. ; ed. Bridgend and Colyton,
Devon, by David Lewis Evans (min. Colyton, 1850-1863), Caermar<strong>the</strong>n, Pres. Coll.,
1851-1856 ; London, M.N.C., 1856-1859 ; min. Moreton Hampstead, 1859-1862 ; Sid-
mouth, 1863-1868 ; Wareham, 1868-1873 ; Allostock, 1873-1885 ; Knutsford, 1873-7885 ;
Halstead and High Garrett, f886-1889 ; Dudley, 1890-1892 ; Bournemouth, 1893-1895 ;
Liverpool, Toxteth Park Chapel, 1895-1897 ; nr. (17 September, 1868) Enlma Yeates,
daughter <strong>of</strong> Nicholas Samuel Heincken (min. Sidmouth) ; Issue, Titus Lee (b. 1869).
d. 27 May, 1897 ; cremated in Liverpool.
cf: Record, p. 7.
AR~~OWSMITH HYDE SHELLEY, 6. 1862, at Newbury ; ed. Caermar<strong>the</strong>n, Pres. Coll ; Oxford,
St. Mary's Hall, matric., 22 October, 1883- ; min. Templepatrick, 1884-1890, 1890-
1893 ; Dudley, 1893- ; m. (21 January, 1885) Gertrude Isabel Margaret, daughter
<strong>of</strong> Francis Shelley, <strong>of</strong> Lewes ; has issue.
Trzlstees' JIi~zute Book.
&IS. Records <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Presbyterian Church, Stourbridge, Mr. William Scott,
vol. iii. (about I~OO), p. 351.
NOTE.--^^ custody <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> minister for <strong>the</strong> time being <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Presbyterian Chapel,.
Stourbridge.]
Inq., 1869, p. 802.
M.R., 1824, p. 626.
Bic. Nat. Biog. for J. H.
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Bransby.
<strong>History</strong> <strong>of</strong> Renshaw Street Chapel, Liverpool ; Geo. Eyre Evans, 1888,
p. 33, for J. Palmer.
Vestees, pp. 344 et. seq. for Dudley and Oldbury Double Lectures.
BudZey firaZd, 23 April, 1898, 'L The Old Meeting-house and its
Ministers," Arthur A. Rollason ; and 30 April, 1898, "The Old Meetinghouse
Ministers."
" The Old Non-parochial Registers <strong>of</strong> Dudley," Arthur A. Rollason,
1899, weekly in Dudley Herald, and since published in book form.