Gordon Stevens Wakefield (15 January 1921[citation needed] – 11 September 2000) was a Methodist minister, academic and author.[1]

He was educated at Crewe County Secondary School,[2] the University of Manchester, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, Wesley House and St Catherine's College, Oxford.

Wakefield was a Methodist circuit minister in Edgware, Woodstock, Stockport, Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol. He was Methodist Connexional Editor from 1963 to 1971; chairman of the Manchester and Stockport Methodist District from 1971 to 1979; principal of Queen's College, Birmingham, from 1979 to 1987[3] (and also a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham); chaplain of Westminster College, Oxford, from 1988 to 1989 and director of the Alister Hardy Research Centre[4] from 1989 to 1992.[5]

References

  1. ^ Amongst others he wrote "Puritan Devotion", 1957; "Methodist Devotion", 1966; "The Life of the Spirit in the World of Today", 1969; "Robert Newton Flew", 1971; "Fire of Love", 1976; "The Liturgy of St John", 1985; "John Wesley", 1990; "Bunyan the Christian", 1992; "An Outline of Christian Worship", 1998; and "Medicines for the Heart" > British Library website accessed 11:18 GMT, 10 March 2099.
  2. ^ "The Reverend Gordon Wakefield". Telegraph. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Obituaries; The Rev Gordon Wakefield | World news". The Guardian. 20 September 2000. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  4. ^ Web Development Team – UWTSD. "Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre – University of Wales Trinity Saint David". uwtsd.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Wakefield, Gordon Stevens". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2019. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U182551. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)


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