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. They left the Methodist conference in 1827 in protest at the installation of an

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. This grew into a wider dispute around the style of government of the conference, though it continued to be known as the Leeds Organ Dispute. The Protestant Methodists constituted themselves as a separate body in 1828. Methodist Family Tree Diagram Vertical

In 1836, the group joined the Wesleyan Association, by which time they consisted of several thousand members, mostly in Leeds.O'Brien, G.
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in 1907 and in 1932 became part of the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

References

*''The Penguin Dictionary of British History'', Ed. Juliet Gardiner Methodist churches in West Yorkshire

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