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John Scott
Lidgett
John married Emmeline Martha Davies Q3 1884 in Monmouth. (Emmeline Martha Davies was born in 1858 in Monmouthshire and died Q2 1934 in Bermondsey.)
John
Scott Lidgett had a vision of the settlement as a ‘community of social
workers who come to a poor neighbourhood to assist by methods of friendship
and cooperation those who are concerned with upholding all that is essential
to the well-being of the neighbourhood’. He argued for stronger action to
advance the social, economic and spiritual conditions of the working classes.
As well as becoming the Warden of the settlement, John Scott Lidgett was an
important Methodist theologian arguing for tolerance and Christian unity. He
was a strong advocate of the formation of the Wesley Guild (1890) which
became the main means of organizing work with young people within the
Methodist Church (the Guild also involved older people). The Guild had
152,000 members in some 2000 groups by 1900. Lidgett
was also recognized as the principal architect of Methodist Union in 1932.
Scott Lidgett was not afraid to engage in politics. He became was an alderman
on the London County Council and leader of the Progressive Party on the LCC
between 1918 and 1928. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1933. |
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