▶Date of birth:  25 January 1847       Place of birth: Landport, Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire

▶Father:  Edward Llewyllyn     Mother: Caroline Sarah Ann Syred

▶Spouse(s): Elizabeth Annie Benson Dickinson     Date(s) of marriage:   38 October 1882    Place(s) of marriage: Lanchester

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Wesleyan Methodist minister); Shipwright’s apprentice

▶Lifestory: Alfred Llewellyn was trained as a Methodist minister and was stationed mainly in the south of England and the Midlands, coming to Cheltenham when he was just over fifty years of age. He was born in Portsmouth in 1847, the son of joiner Edward Llewellyn, and his wife Caroline Sarah Ann (née Syred). He lived at home with his parents for many years, by the age of fourteen engaged as an Apprentice to a Shipwright. But he felt the call of the Methodist Church; he received his initial training in the Wesley Sunday School in Arundel Street, Portsmouth, and was later admitted to the Richmond Theological Training Institution and accepted his first circuit appointment in 1867.

The districts to which the Revd. Alfred Llewellyn was sent as a junior minister included: Bromley, Kent (1868), Chichester 1869, and Kingston-on-Thames 1870-1. In 1872 he was appointed Superintendent Minister of the Chertsey and Walton-on-Thames district of Surrey, and reverted to a junior role at Preston (Lune Street) 1873-5, Liverpool (Cranmer Street), and Bath 1879-81 (Walcot Chapel). In 1882, when his residences were Ingleside, Osterley Park Road, Southall and 351 Amhurst Road, Stoke Newington, London, he married Elizabeth Annie Benson, eldest daughter of John Dickinson, a brick-manufacturer, of Belle Vue House, Shotley Bridge, Durham; they had three sons and  daughter.

He remained a junior minister at Wolverhampton 1884-6,  but thereafter he was normally District Superintendent, at Carlisle 1887-90, Derby (Green Hill) 1890-2, Porthleven, Cornwall 1893-4 (he left “for family reasons and on account of a recent bereavement”), and in 1895 was granted permission by the Methodist Conference to reduce to a Supernumerary for a year), Newport, Monmouthshire 1894, Battersea 1895, Whitstable, Kent 1896-8.

In 1899 he was stationed at St Paul’s, Bedford (where he lectured amongst other subjects on Pilgrim’s Progress), and the following year was moved to Cheltenham as Superintendent Minister, from 1903 until 1904 living at the Wesleyan Superintendent’s residence, 27 Clarence Square in Pittville. By 1900 he attached MA to his name, but it is uncertain by which institution this degree was awarded. In 1904, after his time in Cheltenham, Llewellyn was stationed at Norwood as a Supernumerary.

He and his wife celebrated their silver wedding in 1907; his wife, an ardent Temperance advocate who wrote many readings for children, died in 1910, in which year he retired to the Ealing and Acton circuit. By the time of the 1911 census he was still a Supernumerary Minister at Norwood, Middlesex, where he lived, a widower, at Ingleside, Osterley Park Road, Southall, and by 1916 at 36 Lammas Park Road, Ealing before moving to 77 Creffield Road, Acton in 1922, where he continued with light clerical duties until about 1926; he died at his home in Acton in 1930, at the age of  eighty-three.

▶Moved to Pittville from:   Bedford     Moved from Pittville to: Norwood

▶Date of death: 11 June 1930     Place of death: 77 Creffield Road, Acton

▶Date of burial:  14 June 1930       Place of burial: West Norwood cemetery

▶Notes:  Portsmouth Evening News 6 February 1904      ID: 5639

Contributor(s):  John Simpson