Holliday Bickerstaffe Kendall
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August 2, 1844 Wakefield |
| Died | March 10, 1919 (aged 74) Bournemouth |
Holliday Bickerstaff(e) Kendall (2 August 1844 – 10 March 1919), was a Primitive Methodist Minister, President of the Conference (1901). Editor (Primitive Methodist publishing), Author and Historian. Kendall wrote three separate histories of the Primitive Methodist Church which became to be regarded as the difinitive history of the Church.
He was born on 2 August 1844 at Wakefield. He was the only child of Rev Charles Kendall and Sarah Bickerstaffe. He was named after a friend of the family, Rev. Thomas Holliday, and his mother's family, Bickerstaffe.
He served as a Primitive Methodist Minister from 1864 to 1903.
Thomas and Fanny Kendall raised ten sons and one daughter to adulthood, six of the sons became Ministers in the Primitive Methodist Church; though not all remained as PMs. There are ten Kendalls listed in Leary., H B Kendall's father Charles (1818–1882), and five of his uncles (Thomas (1816–1878), Dennis (1824–1896), Joseph (1827–1890)) joined the United Methodists. Amos (1830–1909) immigrated to America and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Henry (1832–1900) joined the Congregationalist Methodists and H B Kendall's cousin Frederick Dennis (born 1858). Cousins, Henry George and his brother James Dennis Hird (later first Principal of Ruskin College) were ordained in the Church of England.
In recognition of the Kendall contribution to Primitive Methodism the Kendall Memorial Chapel was opened in 1885 in the hamlet of Ashby, Lincolnshire (now part of Scunthorpe) the home of the Kendall family since the 1820s.
Kendall's family provided a remarkable number of clergy, not only amongst the Primitive Methodists but also in the Church of England.
Kendall served in the following Circuits -
1864 – Newcastle
1867 – North Shields
1871 – Sunderland
1874 – Durham
1877 – Spennymoor
1879 – Middlesbrough
1884 – Harrogate
1892 – Editor (Primitive Methodist publishing),
1901 – Folkestone, and President of the Conference
1902 – Bournemouth (Retired)
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