W. A. Langsford

Rev. William Alfred Langsford (1851 – 21 November 1930) was a Methodist minister in South Australia.

History Langsford was born in Norwood, South Australia, the second son of lay preacher John Langsford (died 3 July 1895) who arrived by the Sea Queen in March 1850. He was a grandson of John Langsford (c. 1788 – 26 August 1870) of Alphington, Devon, near Exeter.

He was educated at the Pulteney Street School and Prince Alfred College. In 1874 he was accepted for training as a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and began his ministry in 1876, serving his probationary period at Laura and Port Augusta. He spent 13 years in the northern circuits and five years on Yorke Peninsula, then 13 years in city and suburbs, serving at Norwood, Unley, Hindmarsh, Payneham, and Prospect. He then went to the South-East, and from 1902 to 1904 was chairman of the South-Eastern district.

Family On 24 March 1880 Langsford married Catherine Helen Catt (1858 – 1931), a daughter of Alfred Catt MHA. Their children include: Alfred Stanley Langsford (1883–1965) married Bessie Blackler Colton on 26 January 1912, lived at Mount Lofty Cpt. John Kingsley Langsford ( – 21 August 1956), of Parakylia station Roy Hartley Langsford (1891–1962), of Brighton Wilfred Wolseley "Fred" Langsford (1894 – ) married Eva Gertrude Richards BA on 30 September 1919. She made headlines after attempting suicide and murder of their four children. She was found guilty but released without penalty. Helen Clifford "Nellie" Langsford married M(ethuselah) Prisk Tregoning (died 22 December 1916) on 8 September 1906 She married again, to Richard Mitchell, on 29 May 1919. Hilda Hope Isabel Langsford (1889–1963) and Dorothy Mary Langsford (1896– ), both of Prospect They had a home at 3 Flora Terrace, Prospect

His brother Arthur Langsford (c. 1855 – 13 September 1927) was an insurance executive, founder and president of the Methodist Local Preachers and Laymen's Association.