MB2/BSP/15/4250

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.

27 April 1962

From: 1962 To: 1962

Trustees appointed December 1946 (all of Bedford unless otherwise stated): Rupert Wesley Anderson, boot and shoe repairer, continuing; Charles Herbert Blakeway of Biddenham Turn, Borough engineer and surveyor, continuing; Arthur Robert Browning, retired grocer, deceased; William Arthur Buck, engineer, continuing William Arthur Butterfield, retired bank employee, deceased; Harry Gregory Carter, retired bank official, deceased; Charles Collins, retired commercial traveller, desires to be discharged; George Cook, retired fruiterer, deceased; William Ewart Darrington, retired civil servant, deceased; Stanley James Dunton, civil servant, desires to be discharged; John Fountain, building society secretary, continuing; James Edward Grice, plumber and electriction, deceased; Charles Robert Handscombe, pharmacist, continuing; Frederick John Izzard, decorator, deceased; Fred Jabez Kendall, commercial traveller, deceased; Henry Samuel Manning of Biddenham, decorator, continuing; Ewart Kenneth Martell, solicitor, continuing; Albert Mastin, commercial traveller, deceased; Albert James Mayhew of Bromham, retired schoolmaster, continuing; Joseph Stockley Mayne, retired decorator, deceased; Bertram Edward Odell, boot repairer, continuing; Samuel Rainbird, bookstall manager, deceased; Ralph Rootham, retired builder, deceased; George Royle, Knight, CBE, barrister-at-law, deceased; Percival Warwick Rush of Biddenham Turn, printer, desires to be discharged; Maurice Clare Stanton of Biddenham, bank clerk, desires to be discharged; John Phillip Stevens of Great Barford, land surveyor, continuing; William Cyril Stevens of Great Barford, wholesale grocer, deceased; Eric Henry Lineham Stonebanks, local government officer, continuing; Stanley Ward, outfitter, desires to be discharged; Arthur Williams, commercial traveller, deceased; Joseph John Worledge, insurance agent, desires to be discharged New trustees appointed 1962: Peter Beck of Goldington, certified accountant; Hilda Lawson-Brown, spinster; David John Carter, architect; Thomas Edmund Errington, accountant; Reginald John Fairey, retired engineer; Leslie Fountain, draughtsman; Stanley Ibbett of Biddenham, company director; Wilfred Jackman, printer; Kenneth Alfred Odell, shoe repairer; Constance Mary Sewell, married woman; Benjamin Gordon Shorten, engineer; Charles Spencer, sub-postmaster; Reginald William Stonebanks, estate agent; Mabel Sarah Salome Telford, married woman; James Wesley Thorpe, accountant

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Royle, George,
Butterfield, William Arthur,
Grice, James Edward,
Izzard, Frederick John,
Manning, Henry Samuel,
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,
Beck, Peter,
Brown-Lawson, Hilda,
Carter, David John,
Errington, Thomas Edmund,
Fairey, Reginald John,
Fountain, Leslie,
Ibbett, Stanley,
Jackman, Wilfred,
Odell, Kenneth Alfred,
Sewell, Constance Mary,
Shorten, Benjamin Gordon,
Spencer, Charles,
Stonebanks, Reginald William,
Telford, Mabel Sarah Salome,
Thorpe, Jeremy

BEDFORD, Bedford Harpur Street, BIDDENHAM, Great Barford, GOLDINGTON, Methodist Church, Methodist individuals, DEEDS, grocer, bank official, commercial traveller, merchant, barrister, decorator, plumber, electrician, fruiterer, schoolmaster, upholsterer, builder, printer, company director, boot repairer, engineer, surveyor, pharmacist, solicitor, outfitter, insurance agent, accountant, architect, draughtsman, sub postmaster, estate agent