George, Alfred Cleave (1877-1956)

Alfred Cleave George was born on 13 May 1877 in Egloshayle, Cornwall to John George, a mason, and Rebecca Jane (nee Cleave). He was baptised at Egloshaye Road UMFC chapel in Wadebridge on 26 June 1877. When he was fourteen he was apprenticed to a grocer in Wadebridge, but entered Victoria Park College, the UMFC ministerial training at the age of twenty-two in 1899.

He was received into full connexion in 1905, becoming a minister of the United Methodist Church on union in 1907 and the Methodist Church in 1932. He retired in 1942 to Rochdale then to Sutton.

Alfred died on 3 Jul 1956 in Sutton, Surrey, and was buried in Cheslyn Hay, Staffordshire, where he had previously been a minister.

Family

Alfred married Florence Langley (1874-1959) on 2nd August 1905 in Clutton, Somerset. They had  four children.

• Florence Marjorie (1906-2005)
• Joyce Hilda (1908-1998)
• Olive May (1911-1972)
• Norman Langley (1913-1992)

Circuits 

• 1899   Victoria Park College
• 1901   Tavistock
• 1903   Liverpool Central
• 1905   Plymouth
• 1908   Manchester II, Oxford Road
• 1913    Long Eaton
• 1919   Sunderland, Thompson Memorial Hall
• 1923   London, Brixton
• 1929   Cheslyn Hay
• 1931    London, Hackney
• 1935   Nottingham West
• 1942   Rochdale (Supernumerary)
• 1946   Sutton (Supernumerary)

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 1956  [Obituary] p 203