| 词条 | James Colwell |
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| name = Rev. James Colwell F.R.H.S., F.R.G.S., F.C.I., | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1860 | birth_place = Gloucester, England | death_date = 1930 | death_place = Rose Bay, New South Wales | church = Methodist | other_names = | education = Westminster Training College | ordained = 1885 | writings = | congregations = Rose Bay | offices_held = | title = | spouse = Grace née Kelynack | children = 1 son & 1 daughter | parents = Richard Colwell | relations = Dr Alan Colwell (son) | footnotes = }}{{Portal|Methodism}} James Colwell (1860–1930) was an English-born Australian Methodist minister and historian.[1]BiographyColwell was born in Gloucester, England, in 1860 and was the seventh son of Richard Colwell. He was trained as a teacher at the Wesley Day School in Gloucester and the Westminster Training College before migrating to Sydney in 1884. On his arrival he became an assistant master at Newington College. A year later he entered the Methodist ministry of New South Wales. He married Grace Kelynack, the daughter of the Rev. Dr William Kelynack. After forty years of service he retired as supernumerary minister to Rose Bay in 1925. He was a member of the college council at Newington College and at Annesley in Bowral. As an historian he was the author of The History of Methodism in New South Wales, A Century in the Pacific and he edited and was part author of The Story of Australia.[2] Colwell was a frequent contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald. In 1914 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in England and in 1923 a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in Australia. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute and a Member of the Royal Australian Historical Society.[3] On his death he was survived by his wife and a son, Dr. Alan Colwell, and a daughter, Mrs. Gordon Studdy. From 1928 until 1971, Alan Colwell presented the James Colwell Prize for Modern History in the Sixth Form at Newington College in honour of his father.[4] References1. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16729928 |title=NOTED METHODIST. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,971 |date=11 November 1930 |accessdate=12 September 2017 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Colwell, James}}2. ^{{Citation | title=Colwell, James (1860-1930) | journal=Trove | publication-date=2011 | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-612389 | accessdate=12 September 2017 }} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16730392 |title=JAMES COLWELL. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,974 |date=14 November 1930 |accessdate=19 September 2017 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224681508 |title=OLD NEWINGTONIANS |newspaper=The Sun |issue=5587 |location=Sydney |date=4 October 1928 |accessdate=18 September 2017 |page=12 (FINAL EXTRA) |via=National Library of Australia}} 6 : 1860 births|1930 deaths|Australian Methodist ministers|Staff of Newington College|Members of Newington College Council|20th-century Australian historians |
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