MB2/BSP/15/4248

Memorandum of Choice and Appointment of new trustees of the St Paul's Methodist (formerly Wesleyan) Chapel at Harpur Street, Bedford in respect of property contained in deeds dated 9 & 10 July 1805, 14 October 1839 and 11 August 1851, Order of Charity Commissioners dated 26 January 1875 and Declaration dated 2 May 1944 adopting trusts of Methodist Model Deed.

30 December 1946

From: 1946 To: 1946

Trustees appointed July 1927 (all of Bedford unless otherwise stated): Charles Collins, commercial traveller, continuing; Henry Darrington, grocer, deceased; Frederick Charles Finch, merchant, deceased; George Royle, Knight, CBE, barrister-at-law, 1914, continuing; Ernest Anderson, boot retailer, deceased; William Arthur Butterfield, bank employee, continuing; Ethelbert Lyonel Finch, decorator, deceased; James Edward Grice, plumber and electriction, continuing; Frederick John Izzard, decorator, continuing; Henry Samuel Manning, decorator, continuing; John Monk, retired miller, deceased; William Allard Stevens, wholesale grocer, deceased; Charles Edward Thomas Stonebanks, foreman joiner, desires to be discharged; Arthur Robert Browning, grocer, continuing; George Cook, fruiterer, continuing; Henry Prior Darrington, grocer, deceased; William Ewart Darrington, civil servant, continuing; Albert Mastin, provision merchant, continuing; Albert James Mayhew, schoolmaster, continuing; Joseph Stockley Mayne, decorator, continuing; Richard Morley, civil servant, deceased; Bertram Edward Odell, boot repairer, continuing; William George Prior, upholsterer, deceased; Ralph Rootham, retired builder, continuing; Percival Warwick Rush, printer, continuing; Benjamin Richard Good Shorten, company director, deceased; John Jabez Stanton, retired butcher, deceased; William Cyril Stevens, wholesale grocer, continuing; Arthur Williams, commercial traveller New trustees appointed December 1946: Rupert Wesley anderson, boot and shoe repairer; harels Herbert Blakeway of Biddenham Turn, Borough engineer and surveyor; William Arthur Buck, engineer; Harry Gregory Carter, retired bank official; Stanley james Durston, civil servant; John Fountain, building society secretary; Charles Robert Handscomb, pharmacist; Fred Jabez Kendall, commercial traveller; Ewart Kenneth Martell, solicitor; Samuel Rainbird, bookstall manager; Maurice Clare Stanton of Biddenham, bank clerk; eric Harry Lineham Stonebanks of Great Barford, land surveyor; Stanley Ward, outfitter; Joseph John Worledge, insurance agent

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Collins, Charles,
Darrington, Henry,
Finch, Frederick Charles,
Royle, George,
Anderson, Ernest,
Butterfield, William Arthur,
Finch, Ethelbert Lyonel,
Grice, James Edward,
Izzard, Frederick John,
Manning, Henry Samuel,
Monk, John,
Stevens, William Allard,
Stonebanks, Charles Edward Thomas,
Browning, Arthur Robert,
Cook, George,
Darrington, Henry Prior,
Darrington, William Ewart,
Mastin, Albert,
Mayhew, Albert James,
Mayne, Joseph Stockley,
Morley, Richard,
Odell, Bertram Edward,
Prior, William George,
Rootham, Ralph,
Rush, Percival Warwick,
Shorten, Benjamin Richard Good,
Stanton, John Jabez,
Stevens, William Cyril,
Williams, Arthur,
Anderson, Rupert Wesley,
Blakeway, Charles Herbert,
Buck, William Arthur,
Carter, Harry Gregory,
Durston, Stanley James,
Fountain, John,
Handscomb, Charles Robert,
Kendall, Fred Jabez,
Martell, Ewart Kenneth,
Rainbird, Samuel,
Stanton, Maurice Clare,
Stonebanks, Eric Henry Lineham,
Stevens, John Philip,
Ward, Stanley,
Worledge, Joseph John

BEDFORD, Bedford Harpur Street, Methodist Church, Methodist individuals, DEEDS, grocer, butcher, civil servant, commercial traveller, merchant, barrister, bank clerk, decorator, plumber, electrician, miller, foreman, joiner, fruiterer, provision merchant, schoolmaster, upholsterer, builder, printer, company director, shoe repairer, boot repairer, engineer, surveyor, pharmacist, solicitor, outfitter, insurance agent