| Description | DOB: 1864
DOD: 1949
Born and raised in Tavinstock in a family with 13 children.
His family experienced high infant mortality.
Attended a dame school, as young as he could walk down the street.
There were also two private schools for girls, relatively expensive, and bearing a high reputation for efficiency in turning out young ladies. For the unprivileged, the lower orders, two elementary schools, one of them a church school, the other a ‘British’ school. The school board at Tavisock came into existence in 1874.
Ages 19-26, went to a training college at the British Foreign School Society.
Christian
His parents attended a Methodist free church in Russell Street.
Teacher in Tavistock.
In september 1890, he was appointed the Master of Method, at one of the new Day Training Colleges, the one which became the Training Deparment of the University College at Cardiff.
Became chairman of the awarding committee, in which students were being trained for the certificate of the National Froebel Union.
His first marriage took place in 1893, but ended with her death in 1899, 6 years later.
They had three children, two girls, Dorothy and Constance, and a little boy, Arthur, who died of pneumonia.
His second marriage took place in 1902, mentions his children, Alison and Joan, and Tony, who joined the army and gave his life for his country in 1940.
In 1624 John Pym returned as Member of Parliament for the Borough of Tavinstock.
At the age of 62 visited America in the spring of 1962.
Returned to spend his old age in Cornwall, from 1934-1949.
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Methodist, London, BFSS |