TFiL Newsletter 契刊 《秋季刊》 5 OCT 2013 ISSUE 18 《本月主編 : 育婷|美編:于美》 2008 倫敦光鹽團契創立 2010 倫敦光鹽契刊創刊 Welcome to Taiwanese Fellowship Monthly! We hope to bring you latest happenings of the Taiwanese Fellowship in London (TFiL) and enrich your life in UK!倫敦光鹽團契月刊是向上帝表達感恩的嘗試,也是你我分享心情的平台。不論是生活上的【感恩心情】、 【信仰見證】, 或團契活動的【隨筆札記】、【照片圖說】, 都歡迎您踴躍投稿 ! 來稿 請寄 : [email protected]Regent'sPark 野外禮拜 / 攝影 by Tony Lu TAIWANESE FELLOWSHIP 本期提要 Inside this issue 活動回顧︱ 9 月 21 日中秋小家聚會 光鹽選讀︱三浦綾子的「冰點」 生活分享︱練習曲。不列顛的東西南 同工分享︱下一代傳承的事工 教會發展︱ Lumen 教會發展(四) -- 彩繪玻璃 團契佈告欄︱周五活動預告 / 詩班 / 契刊 / 新生教戰手冊 / 關懷事工
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TFiL Newsletter
契刊《秋季刊》
5 OCT 2013
ISSUE 18
《本月主編 : 育婷|美編:于美》2008 倫敦光鹽團契創立 2010 倫敦光鹽契刊創刊Welcome to Taiwanese Fellowship Monthly! We hope to bring you latest happenings of the Taiwanese Fellowship in London (TFiL) and enrich your life in UK!倫敦光鹽團契月刊是向上帝表達感恩的嘗試,也是你我分享心情的平台。不論是生活上的【感恩心情】、【信仰見證】, 或團契活動的【隨筆札記】、【照片圖說】, 都歡迎您踴躍投稿 ! 來稿 請寄 : [email protected]
Who is Commemorated in Our Stained Glass Windows? Looking around the building, you may find yourself wondering, who were the people whose names are on the
small stained glass windows? What did they do and why were they thought to be worth remembering? If you start
under the cross in the church area (at the opposite end from the café), and walk clockwise round the church area,
this is a summary of what we know.
Ivor Johnstone Roberton (1865-1948, minister here 1907-1925). Son of a Free Church of Scotland
minister, Ivor was minister here during World War I, during which 40 men from this church – more than our entire
congregation on most Sundays today - were killed. During his time here, our first female elders were elected, one
of whom (Elizabeth Roberton, elected 1923) was his niece. He preached a sermon here in 1922 which encouraged
John Reith, who was in the congregation, to apply for the position that led him to become the first Director-General
of the BBC (Reith gave one of our collection plates in 1919, and laid the foundation stone of our 1960s building).
We have an impressive portrait of Ivor in our archive room.
Alexander Connell (1866-1920, minister here 1898-1906). Born in Appin and raised at Ballachulish in the west
highlands of Scotland, Alexander was our last Gaelic-speaking minister. Under his extraordinarily gifted leadership,
our church ran Sunday schools, youth clubs, a library, a Literary Society, a medical mission, a soup kitchen, sports
clubs, even an employment agency. He left here to be a minister in Liverpool, where he died of cancer aged
54, leaving his widow Jessie and three children. He was chair of the Presbyterian Church of England’s Foreign
Missions Committee for many years and in the winter of 1898 he paid a visit to Taiwan – the only person named on
these windows to have done so, as far as we know.
Dr. Mary Dobie Gilmour Brooks (1896-1966). Mary Gilmour, who came from the west of Scotland, was a
pioneering cancer specialist who worked in Hampstead at the former Marie Curie Hospital for women cancer
patients in Hampstead. The building was destroyed by bombing in World War II (which caused a severe radiation
risk) and its work is done today by Mount Vernon hospital, Northwood. Mary married Harward Brooks in this church
in 1939 (he is commemorated by the bookcase we keep the hymn books in) and in her later years she lived with
Jessie Bain.
Moving to the other side of the worship area, and starting at the café end:
Dr. Elizabeth Bolton (1878-1961). The daughter of a Congregational minister from Leeds, she became a
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leading surgeon and was Dean of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women (the first medical school
to train women doctors in England). The School’s building in nearby Wakefield Street was damaged by the missile
that hit our church in 1945 and Elizabeth was injured but gallantly continued working until all the students were taken
care of. The School she headed is now part of the Royal Free and University College Medical School.
‘Anne McLean Jenkinson-Bain,’ (1851-1924). Annie McLean came from Inverness to work in London as a
cook. She married another Scot, John Bain, a joiner, and lived at various addresses near here. Jessie Bain (1896-
1968), born in Wakefield Street, was her only child. A long-term member here, Jessie qualified as a nurse, worked
in several London hospitals and gave a lot to the church, including seven of our windows and a clock to go opposite
the pulpit (continuing a tradition from the previous building, but now abandoned) to remind preachers not to go on
too long!
Moving to ‘Community Space 2’ on the eastern side of the building and
starting at the garden end:
Mrs. Doris Ivy Britcher (1905-1965): the only person commemorated
in the windows who was born in the twentieth century, Doris Staham
came from Derbyshire and her father was a mason and stone carver. She
married Dennis Britcher in 1926, lived in nearby Thanet Street and one of
her daughters, Valerie, married our then minister’s son (Alan Whitehouse)
in 1964. Doris died of breast cancer, and this window was given by her
husband Dennis and her daughters.
Sister Helen Neilson and Sister L. Wills were both nurses trained at
the Royal Free Hospital, which was established to provide free hospital care
in London long before the National Health Service was created, and until the
1970s was located in the neighbourhood of this church. Helena Neilson (born
1888 in Tullaghcullion in Donegal, Ireland) was one of the eleven children
of a Presbyterian minister. She came to train as a nurse at the Royal Free
Hospital during World War I and three of her brothers also fought in that war. Later she went back to Ireland, but we
know little about her later life. Lilian Wills (born 1884), trained as a nurse in 1911, went out to work in France in 1915
in the battlefields of the Western Front, and later worked at a hospital for wounded officers in Scotland. She was in
Manchester in the early 1920s, but we don’t know what happened to her after that.
Dr. William Miller Fairlie (1884-1962) and Lizzie Gertrude Fairlie née Whittaker (1880-1947). William, who
was an elder of this church in the 1920s, came from Paisley in the west of Scotland, studied medicine at Glasgow
University, became a surgeon to the Metropolitan Police in London and campaigned for anti-drink driving laws, long
before the breathalyzer was finally introduced in Britain in 1967. Lizzie was the daughter of a Liberal MP and leading
temperance campaigner. They married in this church in 1913 and had two daughters.
The one name on the windows that we don’t know anything about is Dr. Bernard Gillespie. No one seems to
know who he was or why he’s named on the same window as Ivor Roberton. If you find out anything about him, let
us know!
photo by 于美
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