George Thomas Perks
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Reverend George Thomas Perks (29 August 1819–29 May 1877) was an English methodist minister. He co-founded the Methodist Recorder in 1861, and was President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1873.
He was one of the founders of the Methodist Recorder (first published 4 April 1861), with five other Wesleyan Methodist ministers: James Pond Dunn, Charles Garrett, William Morley Punshon, Gervase Smith and Luke Hoult Wiseman.[1]
Perks was awarded an honorary A.M. degree by the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, in 1866.[2] He studied at the Wesleyan Theological Institution (then at Abney House, Stoke Newington) from 1839 to 1842.[3] At the Wesleyan Methodist Conference of 1841, he was recorded as having entered the Wesleyan Ministry in 1840.[4] He was appointed to the Brunswick circuit in Leeds in 1842. After one year there he was appointed to Dalkeith in Scotland.[5] He was ordained at the W.M. Conference at Birmingham in 1844.[6]
He was appointed as one of the secretaries of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in 1867 (taking over from George Osborn D.D.). He held that position until his death.[7] He was elected Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1872, and President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1873.[8]