Samuel Forsyth (Methodist)

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Samuel "Sam" Forsyth (1 May 1881 � 24 August 1960) was a Methodist minister and
social worker in South Australia.

Contents
1 Life
2 Family
3 Recognition
4 Sources
5 References
Life
He was born in Aghyaran near Castlederg, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, a son of
devout Methodists, and at age 15 apprenticed to a draper. He migrated to Australia
in 1901, staying for four months with an uncle who was father of Major General John
Forsyth, then moved to Melbourne, where he had secured a position with Foy and
Gibson. He left for New Zealand, where he worked for a year at Wellington.[1]

He moved to South Australia in 1905 to study at W. L. Morton's Hope Lodge

Missionary Training College at Belair. He and friend Tom Willason went on a
preaching tour of Yorke's Peninsula. He married Ida Rosely Nankivell ( � 24 June
1922) on 2 October 1907 at Maitland. He was ordained a minister of the Kent Town
Methodist Church in 1912. Around 1914 he was in charge of the South Broken Hill
Methodist churches.[2]

After the death of his wife, he married Ida Muriel Brummitt (ca.1884 � 24 October
1953) of Medindie on 29 March 1923. In 1929 he was appointed superintendent of the
Adelaide's Central Methodist Mission, a position he held for a record 23 years.[3]
In June 1930 he founded the Kuitpo Industrial Colony, with W. H. Tucker as manager
and hon. secretary.[4] where men could work for board and lodging. The area, of
nearly 1000 acres, was granted by the State Government on perpetual lease on
condition that it be used for charitable purposes (the Kuitpo Colony later became a
rehabilitation centre). In 1931 he founded the South Australian Council of
Charitable Relief Organizations.

In 1943 he negotiated the Mission's purchase of radio station 5KA as both a source
of income and a propaganda medium. In 1944 he founded Aldersgate Retirement Village
at Felixstow. Forsyth himself retired in 1952 and died at home six years later. He
was buried at Payneham.

Family
He and Ida had two sons; Bob and Elliott. Their home for many years was 6 Adelaide
Terrace, Magill.

Recognition
He was appointed O.B.E. in 1937

Sources
Vogt, A. E., 'Forsyth, Samuel (1881�1960)', Australian Dictionary of Biography,
National Centre of Biography, Australian National University,
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/forsyth-samuel-6215/text10691, accessed 26 March
2012.

References
"The Country"
. The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 27 October 1916. p. 12.
Retrieved 28 March 2012.
"Personal"
. The Barrier Miner. Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 26 June 1922.
p. 1. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
"Warm Story Of Samuel Forsyth"
. The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 20 December 1952. p. 7.
Retrieved 28 March 2012.
"Out Among the People"
. The Advertiser. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 26 August 1954. p. 4.
Retrieved 28 March 2012.
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