▶Date of birth:  13 June 1837        Place of birth: St Neots, Huntingdonshire

▶Father: John Dalzell      Mother:  Elizabeth (probably Howlett)

▶Spouse(s): Susan Phipps     Date(s) of marriage:  26 December 1865      Place(s) of marriage: Wesleyan Chapel, Madras

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Wesleyan Methodist minister), Missionary

▶Lifestory: Samuel Dalzell served initially as a Wesleyan missionary in India, before returning to the regular itinerancy of a Wesleyan minister in England and Wales. He was born in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, in 1837, the eldest son of John Dalzell, grocer, of St Neots, and his wife Elizabeth (probably née Howlett). Dalzell was brought up in the town, and in 1861, at the age of twenty-three, trained as a student of Theology at the Wesleyan College in Richmond, Surrey.

He served as a Wesleyan Methodist minister from 1861 until his death in 1921. For the first thirteen years his ministry he worked in the Mysore district of India; he arrived in Bangalore to assist the resident missionary and by 1863 was assigned to Tumkur in Karnataka. In 1872 he married Susan, youngest daughter of Mr George Phipps, of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Madras; the couple had six children.

On returning to England in 1873 he served at the Wesleyan Chapel, Rock Ferry, Cheshire (1875-7), Glasgow (1879-80), Whitburn, Co. Durham (1880-3: Sunderland Circuit Superintendent), Halifax (1884-6), Middlesborough (1886-9), Doncaster (1889-93), Hanley (1893), and at Northwich, Cheshire (1896-8); in Northwich he successfully contested a case in which he was accused of assaulting a ten-year-old boy said to have disturbed his studies.

From around 1880 he was usually Circuit Superintendent of his district. After Northwich he moved to Cheltenham (1898-1901); between 1899 and 1901 Dalzell lived at 27 Clarence Square in Pittville, with his wife and daughter. Further postings were to Ashby-de-la-Zouch (1901-3), the Wensleydale mission, Ashby-de-la-Zouch (for a second time: 1907-11), before acting as a Supernumerary Minister at Earby on the Colne Circuit (1911-4), where he undertook light duties.

He then entered into his retirement, and moved to West Bridgford, Nottingham, where he was attached to the Arkwright Street Circuit, and conducted services from time to time until a few months before his death in 1921, at the age of eighty-four; he was buried at Nottingham. His estate at death was sworn at just over £870.

▶Moved to Pittville from: Northwich, Cheshire       Moved from Pittville to: Ashby-de-la-Zouch

▶Date of death:   27 June 1921     Place of death: West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire

▶Date of burial:   30 June 1921      Place of burial: Nottinghamshire

▶Notes:  Hall’s Circuits and Ministers 1765-1912  (1914); West Bridgford Advertiser 2 July 1921    ID: 5636

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden