Howard Henry Nolan (1865 – 4 July 1931) was an

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minister. From 1908 until 1911 he was Conference Secretary of Foreign Missions and in 1928 and 1929 was elected as Secretary of the

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Conference of

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Early life

Nolan was born in

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, a son child of Sara Susan (née Holme) and the Rev James Adams Nolan. His father was a

minister and in 1885 president of the NSW and Queensland Methodist Conference. His mother worked for women's suffrage and served as president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. He was the older brother of

Percy Nolan Percy Leonard Nolan (1886 – 1954) was an Australian solicitor and mayor of Manly Council. Early life Nolan was born in Queensland, the thirteenth child of Sara Susan (née Holme) and the Rev James Adams Nolan. His father was a Methodist mini ...

. Nolan attended

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in the early 1880s.

Architecture

Upon leaving Newington, Nolan served articles training to be an architect. Whilst he was stationed at

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as the minister he designed the new Methodist parsonage.

Ministry

In 1888, Nolan chose service to the church over

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and became a student at the

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which was then based in the grounds of Newington College. After ordination, his first station was

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, from whence he went to

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and

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. In 1895, he volunteered for service in

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and remained there until 1907 when for health reasons he returned to Bundaberg. He then went to Brisbane and served in

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. In 1912 he was transferred to

and continued to serve in that state at South Sydney Mission,

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, and Willoughby. He was elected Secretary of the NSW Conference in 1928 and in 1930 he became a

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nolan, Percy 1865 births 1931 deaths Australian Methodist ministers People educated at Newington College Wesleyan Theological Institute alumni 20th-century Australian Methodist ministers