William Kelynack

The Rev Dr William Kelynack (22 May 1831 – 1 November 1891) was an Cornish Australian Methodist minister, President of Newington College, and President of the General Conference of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church.

Kelynack was born at Newlyn, Cornwall, and was educated in Penzance. He briefly taught in a private school before taking up mercantile pursuits. Aged 18, he became a local preacher and four years later entered the Wesleyan ministry.

Kelynack arrived in Sydney in 1854, with fellow Cornishman and minister William Curnow, and he served in the Bathurst circuit until 1856, whence he transferred to Braidwood and then to Yass in 1860. After appointments to Chippendale, Parramatta and Wollongong he served in York Street, Sydney (1865–67) and Surry Hills (1868–70). During the 1860s, Kelynack was a councillor of Newington College, a committee member of Sydney City Mission, and became coeditor of the Christian Advocate and Wesleyan Record with William Curnow. In 1870 he was transferred to Goulburn where he was district chairman and in 1874 he returned to Bathurst.

Kelynack returned to the United Kingdom in 1877 to visit his ailing mother. While there he addressed the British Methodist Conference and raised £3000 for Newington College. He returned to Australia via the United States of America where he addressed the students at Drew Theological Seminary and preached in New York City, Baltimore and Chicago. During his tour he was awarded a doctorate in divinity by the University of New Orleans.

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