About John Dury Geden
Lived 1822 – 1886 (aged 63–64). John Dury Geden was a British christian minister.
John Dury Geden (1822–1886) was an English Wesleyan minister and Hebraist.
Life The son of the Rev. John Geden, a Wesleyan minister, he was born at Hastings on 4 May 1822. In 1830 he was sent to Kingswood School. In 1836 he left school and concentrated on study and teaching.
In 1844 Geden became a candidate for the Wesleyan ministry, and was sent to Richmond Theological College in Surrey. After the standard three years' course, he was appointed assistant tutor in the College. By 1851, when the Methodist conference met in Newcastle upon Tyne, Geden was stationed there, a colleague of William Morley Punshon. After a year in Newcastle and Durham, he was moved to Manchester, where he spent three years in the Oxford Road circuit.
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English Wesleyan Methodist minister
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John Dury Geden was born in 1822.
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John Dury Geden died in 1886.
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John Dury Geden was a christian minister.
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