Lark, William Blake (1838-1913)

Obituary published in the United Methodist - April 1913

W.B. Lark, President of the Bible Christian Conference 1882

Bible Christian Magazine, vol 62, 1883

Rev. W.B. Lark

Pageantry of Methodist Union, p143

Rev. W.B. Lark

Nottingham Daily Express, 1910

Family

William was born on 1 December 1838 at Fowey, Cornwall, to parents Edward Lark, a stone mason (1851), and Mary Ann Blake.

He entered the Bible Christian Ministry in 1859. he was President of the Bible Christian Conference in 1882, 1898 and 1907 and president of the United Methodist Conference in 1909

He married Lydia Chanter (1842-1922) in the summer of 1868 in the Exeter Registration District, Devon. Census returns identify nine children.

William Norman (1869-1885)
Ernest Edward (1870-1924) – a United Methodist minister (1911)
Arthur Frederick (1871-1893)
Lydia Chanter (1873-1959) – married Alfred Charles Marrow, a chemist (shopkeeper) (1911), in 1903
Maurice de Jersey (1874-1960) – a United Methodist minister
Herbert Alfred (abt1877-1949) – a house furnishing salesman (1911)
Lilian Mabel (b1878)
Ida Louisa (1880-1909)
Emmilene Rose (1884-1973) – married Frederick Victor Kings in 1932

William died on 15 April 1913 at Bude, Cornwall.

Circuits

1859 Gwennap
1861 London & Woolwich
1864 Exeter
1867 Holsworthy
1868 Penzance
1871 Bristol
1873 Jersey
1877 Newport & Ryde
1881 Portsmouth
1885 London (Lee)
1889 Newport & Ryde
1893 Devonport
1898 Aberavon
1900 Shebbear College, Governor
1909 Stratton & Bude
1910 Stratton & Bude (Sup)

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