Coulthard, George Taylor (1881-1962)

Obituary from the Minutes of the Methodist Conference

Born at Seghill, Northumberland, in 1881. He became a candidate for the Ministry in 1903, and entered Victoria Park College that year.

He spent his probation in London and in Nottingham, and then served in Bolton. North Shields, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Lowestoft, Farsley and Leeds, where in 1932 be became Secretary of the District. Then he served in Huddersfield, and from 1941-4 was Secretary of the Halifax and Huddersfield District.

Seven years of active supernumeraryship preceded his full retirement within the area of the Huddersfield circuit in which so many years had been spent.

The life and work of the Methodist Church filled his life and satisfied his soul. Preaching was always his joy, and pastoral visitation its essential complement.

His many years brought him rich friendships which he faithfully maintained. Indeed, faithfulness was always an outstanding quality of all his ministry.

He died on Easter Sunday, 22 April 1962, in the eighty-first year of his age and the fifty-ninth of his ministry.

©Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes 1962

Family

George was born in the 4th quarter of 1881 in Seghill, Northumberland, the son of Samuel and Mary Coulthard. His father was a coal miner.

Before entering the minsitry George was an Assistant Schoolmaster (1901).

He married Mary Ann Symington (1884-1972) during the 3rd quarter of 1910 in the Tynemouth Registration District. They had a son

• Alan George (1920-1996)

George died on 22nd April 1962 in Marsh, Huddersfield.

Circuits

• 1904 Victoria Park College
• 1906 London VII
• 1908 Nottingham Sneinton Mission
• 1910  Bolton Hanover (received into Full Connexion)
• 1913  North Shields
• 1916  Newcastle Central
• 1919  Lowestoft
• 1923  Farsley Pudsey and Yeadon
• 1929  Leeds South
• 1935  Huddersfield Lindley
• 1942   Huudersfield
• 1949  Huddersfield Lindley (supernumerary)
• 1929-1935 Secretary of the Leeds District
• 1941-1944 Secretary of the Halifax and Huddersfield District.

References

Oliver A Beckerlegge, United Methodist ministers and their circuits: Being an arrangement in alphabetical order of the stations of ministers of the Methodist New … and the United Methodist Church, 1797-1932

Census Returns and Births, Marriages & Deaths Registers

Minutes of the Methodist Conference 1962, page 213