Dymond, Albert Edward (1882-1967)

Family

Albert was born in Plymouth during 1882, the youngest son of the Bible Christian minister John Dymond and his wife Marianna.

Educated at Shebbear Collge, before entering the Bible Christian ministry in 1903 he was a school teacher.

He married Ellen Mary Blatchford Lang (1885-1971) during 1910 in Plympton. They had two children

• Douglas J (1913-1986)
• Joyce Laura (1917-1965)

Albert died during the 4th quarter of 1967 in Bristol.  His obituary may be found in the Minutes of the Methodist Church 1968.

Circuits

• 1903 President’s list
• 1904 Neath
• 1905 Newport and Ryde
• 1907 Bristol
• 1908 Bristol South (received into full connexion)
• 1910 Barnstaple
• 1911 Chichester
• 1916 Cardiff Diamond Street
• 1920 Salisbury
• 1924 Freetown (assistant Superintendent)
• 1925 Liskeard
• 1930 Freetown (General Superintendent)
• 1946 Pontypool Park Terrace
• 1952 Bristol Clifton (supernumerary)

He was Secretary of the Portsmouth District of the United Methodist Church from 1922 to 1924, then gave seventeen years to the work in Sierra Leone.

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