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Holliday Bickerstaff Kendall (2 August 1844 - 1919), Primitive Methodist Minister, President of the Conference

Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the largest Wesleyan Methodist body in the United Kingdom, with congregations across Great Britain . It is the United Kingdom's fourth largest Christian denomination, with around 300,000 members and 6,000 churches...

(1901). Editor (Primitive Methodist publishing), Author

Author

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and Historian

Historian

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. Kendall wrote three separate histories of the Primitive Methodist Church which became to be regarded as the difinitive history of the Church.

Biography

He was born on 2 August 1844 at Wakefield

Wakefield

Wakefield is the main settlement and administrative centre of the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district of West Yorkshire, England. Located by the River Calder on the eastern edge of the Pennines, the urban area is and had a population of 76,886 in 2001....

the only child of Rev Charles and Sarah Kendall (née Bickerstaffe). He died 10 March 1919 at Bournemouth

Bournemouth

Bournemouth is a large coastal resort town in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. According to the 2001 Census the town has a population of 163,444, making it the largest settlement in Dorset. It is also the largest settlement between Southampton and Plymouth...

and is buried in Boscombe

Boscombe

Boscombe is a suburb of Bournemouth. Located to the east of Bournemouth town centre and west of Southbourne, It developed rapidly from a small village as a seaside resort alongside Bournemouth after the first Boscombe pier was built in 1888...

Cemetery http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25477059. He was named after a friend of the family, Rev. Thomas Holliday, and his mother's family, Bickerstaffe. He served as a Primitive Methodist Minister from 1864 to 1903.

The Kendall family

Thomas and Fanny Kendall raised ten sons and one daughter to adulthood, six of the sons became Ministers in the Primitive Methodist Church; though not all remained as PMs. There are ten Kendalls listed in Leary., H B Kendall's father Charles (1818–1882), and five of his uncles (Thomas (1816–1878), Dennis (1824–1896), Joseph (1827–1890)) joined the United Methodists. Amos (1830–1909) immigrated to America and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Henry (1832–1900) joined the Congregationalist Methodists and H B Kendall's cousin Frederick Dennis (born 1858). Cousins, Henry George and his brother James Dennis Hird

Dennis Hird

James Dennis Hird was a British clergyman, educator and author.Hird was born in Ashby, Lincolnshire to Robert and Fanny Dennis Hird née Kendall. He was the second of five sons, though only three survived to adulthood...

(later first Principal of Ruskin College) were ordained in the Church of England

Church of England

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In recognition of the Kendall contribution to Primitive Methodism the Kendall Memorial Chapel was opened in 1885 in the hamlet of Ashby, Lincolnshire

Ashby, Lincolnshire

Ashby is a village in Lincolnshire, England.-Education:Grange Lane Junior School is located under the shadow of the Corus steel works. It is a mixed school, that educates around 250 pupils aged 7-11, situated in an area of relative disadvantage...

(now part of Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe

Scunthorpe is a town within North Lincolnshire, England. It is the administrative centre of the North Lincolnshire unitary authority, and had an estimated total resident population of 72,514 in 2010. A predominantly industrial town, Scunthorpe, the United Kingdom's largest steel processing centre,...

) the home of the Kendall family since the 1820s.

Kendall's family provided a remarkable number of clergy, not only amongst the Primitive Methodists but also in the Church of England

Church of England

Circuits

Kendall served in the following Circuits

Methodist Circuit

The Methodist Circuit is part of the organisational structure of British Methodism,or at least those branches derived from the work of John Wesley. It is a group of individual Societies or local Churches under the care of one or more Methodist Ministers. In the scale of organisation, the Circuit...

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1864 - Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

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1867 - North Shields

North Shields

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1871 - Sunderland

1874 - Durham

Durham

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1877 - Spennymoor

Spennymoor

Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. The town was founded over 160 years ago...

1879 - Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough is a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire...

1884 - Harrogate

Harrogate

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1892 - Editor

Editing

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(Primitive Methodist publishing),

1901 - Folkstone, and President of the Conference

Methodist Church of Great Britain

1902 - Bournemouth

Bournemouth

(Retired)

Kendall's own work describes the Primitive Methodist Bookroom in some detail. The minimal reference in Leary, "Editor", covers a decade of work which made Kendall one of the most influential persons of his time in Primitive Methodism

Primitive Methodism

Primitive Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. The Primitive Methodist Church still exists in the United States.-Origins:...

Kendall the historian

Kendall's lasting claim to fame is the three separate histories of the Primitive Methodist Church. The second of these was commissioned for publication in 1907, the centenary of the first Primitive Methodist Camp Meeting

Camp meeting

The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in Britain and once common in some parts of the United States, wherein people would travel from a large area to a particular site to camp out, listen to itinerant preachers, and pray...

, 31 May 1807. He is therefore regarded amongst British Methodists as one of the essential sources of information on this subject.

History of the Primitive Methodist Connexion, 1888

H B Kendall's first significant history was published in 1888 (this date is inferred from material in the book). This shows a combination of literary style and scholarship which made Kendall a candidate for writing the most substantial of all the histories for the Camp Meeting Centenary

Camp meeting

. Kendalls' skills would have been enhanced by his time as Connexional Editor, and retirement would have freed him to do the work. This the shortest work (120 pages of text, equivalent to A5 size)

The Origin and History of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1906

H B Kendall was honoured with being asked to write the major publication celebrating the Camp Meeting Centenary

Camp meeting

. This detailed work is generally regarded as the definitive history of Primitive Methodism

Primitive Methodism

Primitive Methodism was a major movement in English Methodism from about 1810 until the Methodist Union in 1932. The Primitive Methodist Church still exists in the United States.-Origins:...

. It was first published as a set of 14 fascicules of 80 pages each in paper covers, often breaking in mid-sentence between volumes. There are a few misprints, for example the dates of the first two Ramsor Camp Meetings

Ramsor

The tiny hamlet of Ramsor in North Staffordshire played a significant part in the origins of Primitive Methodism. Listed in the Domesday Book as Ramshorn, this ancient hamlet is a typical example of the depopulation of the countryside. Very little now remains of this village apart from a few...

being given as 1809 when they were actually 1808. The main printing was in 2 hardback volumes (1906). This has since been reprinted by Tentmaker Publications. ISBN 1901670-49-X ISBN 9781901670-49-3 (EAN-13 format)

History of the Primitive Methodist Church, 1919

A third history was written during World War I

World War I

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, and has his final words "penned when the Great War is over." This is a shorter work (174 pages of text plus a few tables, equivalent to A5 size).

The advantages of this volume are that it provides a more condensed summary of the history, and it contains information up to 1918. For example, the sub-headings in chapters II and III allow the reader easily to date the key events leading up to the adoption of the name Primitive Methodist on 13 February 1812.http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofprimiti00unknuoft#page/10/mode/2up In this volume, we also find the considered judgement of a mature scholar upon the events of history and the people involved.

Other works

Kendall wrote other books, as well as his necessary editorial contributions to The Primitive Methodist Magazine. One example which has been copied and made available on the internet is "Christ's Kingdom and Church in the Nineteenth Century". (See external links below.) This is the text of the fifth Hartley Lecture

Sir William Pickles Hartley

Sir William Pickles Hartley , jam manufacturer and philanthropist, founded the Hartley's jam company. He was born in Colne, Lancashire and attended a local British and Foreign School Society school.-Biography:...

for June 1901, the start of H B Kendall's year as President of the Primitive Methodist Conference. (Hartley was famous for making jam and related products, and he was an important benefactor of the Primitive Methodist ministerial training college in Manchester. This later had a change of name to commemorate Hartley's support of the college.)

External links

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