Dymond, John (1835-1910)

Family

John was born on 12 May 1835 at Beafort, Torrington, Devon, to parents Francis and Elizabeth Dymont. His father was a labourer.

Before entering the Bible Christian ministry in 1857 he was employed as a groom on a farm (1851)

He married Marianna Pearse  (1841-1908) on 11th August 1863, in Exeter. She was the daughter of a Barnstaple ship owner. Her name is often transcribed in records as Mary Emma. They had ten children

• George Pearse (1864-1939) Headmaster, local politician and prominent layman
• Francis John (1865-1932) Bible Christian and United Methodist missionary in Yunnan
• John S. (1871-1942)  Wholesale Draper’s trader (1911)
• Elise Mary (1872- ) married Frederic Byrd
• Sarah Stephens (1873-1944) married William Laurence Hutchings, an accountant
• Robert (1875-1876)
• William Arthur (1876-1950) Commercial traveller (1911)
• (Samuel) James (1879-1927) School teacher
• Fanny Louisa (1881-1882)
• Albert Edward (1882-1967) Bible Christian, United Methodist, Methodist minister

John died on 2nd April 1910 in Bristol at Keighley. His obituary may be found in the Minutes of the United Methodist Church 1910, page 49. A biography from W.J. Mitchell’s Brief biographical sketches of Bible Christian Ministers and Laymen is attached to this page.

Circuits

• 1857  Tawstock and North Devon
• 1859  Barnstaple and North Devon
• 1860  Devonport (received into Full Connexion 1861)
• 1862   London and Woolwich
• 1865  Torquay and Dartmouth
• 1869  Jersey
• 1873  Bristol
• 1879  Devonport
• 1883  Exeter
• 1890  London Forest Hill
• 1895  Plymouth
• 1903  Neath
• 1907  Bristol (supernumerary)
• 1908  Bristol South (Supernumerary)

He was President of the Bible Christian Confernce in 1879. He was Connexional Secretary 1875-1876, Missionary Secretary 1886-1899, and District Superintendent in a number of Districts 1879-1882, 1888-1889, and 1902-1906.

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

Mitchell. W.J. Brief biographical sketches of Bible Christian Ministers and Laymen (1906) vol.1 pp72-78

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