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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Rev. Henry R. Dewsbury

Rev. Henry R. Dewsbury, Minister of Grafton Road Circuit, Auckland, was born at Stirling, Scotland in 1849, and is the youngest son of Mr. B. Dewsbury of that historic town. He was educated at Allan school, Stirling, and left Scotland for Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1863, and was articled for six years to the well-known ecclesiastical architects Messrs. Bury and Mountfort. He subsequently trained in Dunedin for the Wesleyan Ministry under the Rev. A. R. Fitchett, M.A. (now Dean of Dunedin) and the late Rev. Alexander Reid, the well-known Wesleyan divine. Mr. Dewsbury entered the ministry as a probationer in 1871, was ordained in 1875 and appointed to the Manners Street circuit in Wellington. He successively ministered at Oamaru, Auckland, Cambridge (Walkato), Devonport, Wanganui, Christchurch and at Auckland, where he is at present stationed. In 1887 he was elected secretary of the General Conference, and in the following year visited England, returning to New Zealand in 1889. He was elected president of the Conference in 1891 which office—the highest in the gift of his Church—he filled with great ability. Mr. Dewsbury is a powerful preacher, an artist of considerable skill, a good musician and an active supporter of temperance and educational movements. He is also an old cricketer, footballer and tennis-player; recently he has taken to cycling, which he finds a great convenience in his ministerial labours as well as a healthy recreation.