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Samuel Leigh : first Wesleyan Methodist Missionary to Australia and New Zealand

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	SAMUEL LEIGH FIRST WESLEYAN MISSIONARY TO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEA[...]Ken Morgan Samuel Leigh - First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia and New[...]a Mission’s ‘Heritage Colloquium’ on Samuel Leigh (2015) is also included in this publication.[...]vj/ PARRAMATTA Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]& Elizabeth de Reland.3 Samuel Leigh - Elizabeth de Reland... 4-44 Keith H[...]53-54 Clive Pearson: Will the real Samuel Leigh please stand up?... 55-65 In[...]ters .68-74 Elizabeth de Reland: Leigh S Portraits .75-79 Manas Ghos[...]Selected References/ Suggested Reading.84-86 Leigh Memorial Church - original artwork by Darug artis[...]Parramatta Mission Leigh Memorial Church is part of Parramatta Mission, wh[...]three Uniting Church in Australia congregations: Leigh Memorial, Westmead and Leigh Fijian, plus a Korean Faith Community. The Uniti[...]s to elders past, present and emerging. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Preface Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia and New Zealand offers a fresh perspective on Rev Samuel Leigh and his ground-breaking mission to the South Seas[...]sorts to Parramatta Mission’s 2015 book, Samuel Leigh - Parramatta Mission Pioneer. Our second book on Leigh is released in recognition of the 200th anniversa[...]he Parramatta Mission Heritage Committee. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia and New Zealand does not attempt to cover the full extent of Leigh’s contribution in two countries - nor does it p[...]land mission. Instead, it provides an overview of Leigh’s bi-national contributions and does so by util[...]e to be said regarding the contribution of Samuel Leigh’s wife, Catherine Leigh - including her roles as a pioneer midwife, Sunda[...]milton and Elizabeth de Reland, May 2019. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Samuel Leigh Elizabeth de Reland Looking into Samuel Leigh’s eyes, as depicted in George Stodart’s mid[...]eaching trail with a passion to transform lives.1 Leigh’s gaze, matched by the tall, imposing physique[...]de to his pulpit in Parramatta’s first Chapel - Leigh’s time in the town was a landmark, if controver[...]rst Methodist mission. Hunt’s recollections of Leigh - and his declaration that he would “never forg[...]ramatta” 1 George Stodart, Engraving ofSamuel Leigh (after an original 1820 oil painting by John Jack[...]1977), 18. 3 James Carruthers, “The Rev. Samuel Leigh,” Methodist, August 28, 1897, 1; James Carruthe[...]eers,” Methodist, February 26, 1910, 2. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]e of name for his Parramatta church to that of ‘Leigh Memorial,’ also included references to Leigh’s personal fortitude and what many old parishioners recalled as Leigh’s interest in the welfare of children, his dedi[...]“.a study of the life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh serves to show that he was a true succe[...]death of his wife and mission partner, Catherine LeighLeigh’s time in Sydney’s West was inevitably intens[...]aphy (1853) and other retrospective literature on Leigh, reveals the physical and mental toll of his work[...]1:15-16, cited in Carruthers, “The Rev. Samuel Leigh,” 1. 6 John Wesley, The Journal of Rev. John We[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Settlers and Savages ofNew Zea[...]es (London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1853). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]in 1785 in rural Milton (Staffordshire, England), Leigh grew up in a period of increasing industrialisati[...]to Wesleyan Methodism during his young adulthood, Leigh was almost 30 years old and only recently ordaine[...]d experience from many of his younger colleagues, Leigh distinguished himself on his journey to Sydney by[...]y the Captain if he feared capture by the French, Leigh had replied, “I am going to New South Wales as[...]fMethodism, 158. 9 Carruthers, “The Rev. Samuel Leigh,” 1. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ar and evangelical revivalism at home in England, Leigh’s courage and determination were unquestionable[...]international reputation.10 Missionaries such as Leigh were in fact, foundational in establishing key as[...]cathedrals of that age of religious revival.”11 Leigh’s role in the founding of Methodism in the anti[...]n magnitude and detail with the passing of time. Leigh’s time as the first Wesleyan missionary to NSW[...]Some Accounts of the Life and Work ofRev. Samuel Leigh (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1896). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]his character and in his collegial relationships, Leigh’s broader contribution was largely unquestioned[...]Church of Australasia throughout its existence. Leigh’s initial arrival in Sydney had been at the req[...]ve, but “not radically a dissenter,” found in Leigh a moderate and satisfactory candidate.13 Possessi[...]ardship, punishment and suspicion - they found in Leigh a devout and relatively unintellectual follower o[...]the nominal title of ‘Schoolmaster’ in 1815, Leigh managed to diffuse Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s[...]ent in a government position. After first telling Leigh that he could not accommodate him and that the 18[...]s full support.16 In fact, having been assured of Leigh’s acquiescence with the notions of Anglican and[...]Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 4. 14 Samuel Leigh to the WMMS Committee, London, December 1817 (n.d[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 36 16 N. D. McLachlan, “Macquarie, Lachlan (17[...].edu.au/biography/macquarie-lachlan-2419. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]in travelling from one township to another.”17 Leigh’s part in the negotiation had been aided by his[...]the counsel of those who have gone before.”18 Leigh at Parramatta Once approval for his ministry was obtained, Leigh set about establishing contacts in Sydney and the[...]e country, nearly in the centre of the Colony,” Leigh found the local environment quaint, reminiscent o[...], Rowland and Elizabeth Hassall and their family, Leigh was received with great cordiality by the Parrama[...]tting from the town’s ‘country’ affability, Leigh’s relationships with the Hassalls, Cowpers, Mar[...]n the town (possibly the Hassall’s house) where Leigh 17 Strachan, Remarkable Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 36. 18 Rebecca Weintraub, “‘Such scenes are[...]to a European beholder.’: The Papers of Samuel Leigh,” October 4, 2012, The Burke Library Blog, para[...]are-very-afflicting-to-a-european-beholder-samuel-leigh-papers/. 19 Strachan, Remarkable Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 48 20 Ibid, 52 21 Gloster Udy, Spark of Grace (Parramatta Mission, 1977), 18 Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]landholder). The Hassall residence was also where Leigh first encountered the family’s engaging 16 year[...]rramatta became a place of immediate interest for Leigh’s personal and missionary ambitions (including[...]providing community aid and thousands of Bibles. Leigh’s activism on its board and various others, inc[...]ydney, Parramatta, Liverpool and Windsor by 1822, Leigh’s capacity to engage communities and negotiate[...]regime and the Established Church - and Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]d - and to Castlereagh, Windsor and Wilberforce - Leigh also managed to establish mission stations in reg[...]odean appointment.23 Despite such broad success, LeighLeigh would subject his fellow Parramatta missionaries[...]Marsden).25 Making matters more challenging for Leigh and all involved were also the great distances, u[...]race, 26. 24 Ibid., 25. 25 “10th August, 1815 - Leigh arrives in N.S.W., 2nd March, 1819 - Leigh leaves for New Zealand.28th July 1819 - Leigh returns to Sydney., 24th February, 1820 - Leigh leaves for London.. ,16th September, 1821 - Leigh returns to N.S.W., 31st December, 1821 - Leigh leaves for New Zealand.. .1st December, 1823 - Leigh returns to Parramatta - a sick man.” Udy, Spark[...]tm/scholarly/tei-McNTasm-t1-body-d10.html Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh, Walker and the ‘Native Mission’ Working bet[...]for the seventeen years of his antipodean tenure, Leigh also assisted Wesleyan missionary William Walker[...]ls in the early to mid-1820s.28 Supported by Rev Leigh, Walker negotiated the delicate church-civic divi[...]ing the desperate condition of Aboriginal people. Leigh, more patient with the predicament of Western Syd[...]ament or remediation of the “New Hollanders,” Leigh’s and Walker’s letters and their gathered emp[...]ives, many wise observations were made.” Samuel Leigh, Letter to the WMMS, 1 November 1821, Elizabeth de Reland (ed.), Samuel Leigh, Parramatta Mission Pioneer (Parramatta Mission, 2015), 37. 29 Lawry, Diary, March 17, 1819, 35. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]30 * 30 Letter, Samuel Leigh to the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Mission Societ[...]matta Mission archival collection, n.d.). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n.’ Having commenced in 1814, one year prior to Leigh’s arrival, the Institution ultimately become an[...], 1823, cited in Udy, Spark of Grace, 91. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...], The Fountain of Public Prosperity, 126. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ne in Parramatta or the surrounding region.”36 Leigh’s regular absences from NSW during the “Missi[...]people and their traditions,”37 inroads made by Leigh, Walker, Lawry and other Wesleyan missionaries se[...]us and settler groups) by century’s end.38 For Leigh, a further decade of hard labour on all matters p[...]n and Carey, Methodism in Australia, 199. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s Character Leigh was eulogised in both England and Australasia as[...]hough a contentious figure throughout his career, Leigh had established numerous class meetings, congrega[...]y footholds for Methodism, there is no doubt that Leigh beat his body, mind and spirit so hard from the o[...]over. These were designed to prevent - or treat - Leigh’s imminent collapses and to reinvigorate his mi[...]ia: Stanford University Press, 1984), 16. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]e evangelistic imperatives of the Wesleyan cause, Leigh’s absences from the Parramatta Circuit and peri[...]egan to grow. Lawry was particularly irritated by Leigh’s absence from the gruelling Circuit in the Aut[...]e working together, Lawry had also struggled with Leigh’s personal variability, or as he noted, “Mr. Leigh, with whom I wish the most intimate union, is of[...]on, Bro. Lawry is not more to be blamed than Bro. Leigh.”42 Despite posthumously conceded deficits in Leigh’s performance, his biographer Strachan preferre[...]ascibility, pettiness or otherwise. In support of Leigh, 40 Lawry, Diary, September 2, 1819. 41 Lawry,[...]21, quoted in Udy, Spark of Grace, 58-59. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel LeighLeigh’s escapades. Strachan’s books left no doubt[...]s to which his efforts had taken him. Accounts of Leigh sleeping rough in the western Sydney bush, riding[...]matched by those describing a desperately hungry Leigh in search of food. One such anecdote involved him[...]seed scraps previously thrown to chickens.43 As Leigh himself reported to the London Committee in 1816,[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 93. 44 Samuel Leigh, Letter to the Missionary Committee, March 2, 181[...]llection, Parramatta Mission Archives). 45 Samuel Leigh, Letter of July 20, 1823, quoted in Pauline Jones, Milton’sMissionary: The Life and Work ofRev. Samuel Leigh 1785-1852, First Methodist missionary to Australi[...]Methodist Church, Milton, built 1865 (Milton UK: Leigh Memorial Methodist Church, 1986), 15. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s habit of pushing himself to the limit in his[...]rramatta Mission has regularly referred to Samuel Leigh’s efforts. His presence is viewed as having set[...]alding the Mission’s 200th anniversary in 2015. Leigh was, after all, the ultimate ‘poster-boy’ for its motto: ‘Transforming Lives.’46 Leigh, Macquarie and Marsden As the first Wesleyan mis[...]es of the Movement in Australia initially rested, Leigh had entered the strange, convict and military-bas[...]spondence with their Sydney counterparts that Rev Leigh was required to bring “furniture for a horse”[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 34. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Macquarie quickly resolved to tolerate and even encourage Leigh’s presence however, and was pleased by his and[...]of King George III and a devoted Arminian, Samuel Leigh was also influenced by the cultural pre-occupatio[...]n-introduction-to-calvinism-arminianism/ Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]th Wales, 1824 (artist: Joseph Lycett). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Rev Samuel Leigh, Rev Samuel Marsden Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Rev Walter Lawry Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ship boom of the mid-to-late nineteenth century - Leigh’s favour with Macquarie’s government and Parr[...]ter I left the colony, many left the society”), Leigh nonetheless made some important gains.55 These i[...]ocial remediation. Such relationships had enabled Leigh, regardless of his deficits as an evangelist and[...]high society and civic jurisdictions. Similarly, Leigh’s lack of financial and ecclesiastical ambition[...]Wright and Clancy, The Methodists, 16. 55 Samuel Leigh, WMMS Letter, October 24, 1821, quoted in Wright and Clancy, The Methodists, 56. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n cause in Sydney’s West. It could be said that Leigh’s personal ‘obsequiousness’ had paid off. H[...]le in the maintenance of the rule of law. Just as Leigh’s foray into missionary work in Sydney’s West[...]at lifting the tone of colonial life. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]nd compliant approach adopted by first missionary Leigh, and a succession of early Wesleyan representativ[...]lonial Sydney. Moreover, it is little wonder that Leigh’s arrival into this ‘Macquarie-esque’ world[...]), 307/ (Romans 12: 9, King James Bible). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s presence became a happy prospect for Macquari[...]ral edification and the evangelistic intensity of Leigh and the other early Wesleyans (albeit complicated[...]thesis, Macquarie University, 2016), 14. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s feelings about Marsden, Macquarie viewed Samuel Leigh as the face of humble, pious Christianity and a l[...]y Miss. Ann Marsden), Macquarie’s confidence in Leigh, and others like him, rested in stark contrast wi[...]uarie’s disdain for the chief parson increased, Leigh’s close association with him did little to impr[...]negotiations) shifted sharply towards Lawry over Leigh. This interesting twist, at least partly necessitated by Leigh’s departure for New Zealand in 1819, ultimately[...]s remarkable within the whole predicament is that Leigh and Lawry managed to maintain working relationshi[...]solved and they were barely on speaking terms.65 Leigh the evangelist While Macquarie and Marsden strug[...]lationship throughout Macquarie’s governorship, Leigh’s efforts to increase the scope of conversions[...]l History), (Camperdown: Bolt, 2016), 11. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]controversial. More importantly, they produced in Leigh a level of self-punishment that sometimes clouded[...]mbers hailed as a sense of God in their midst.68 Leigh however, struggled frequently in his new environs[...]and what had been an impassioned, early effort by Leigh and his cohort - multiple factors began to work a[...]08 70 Lawry, Diary, December 8, 1818, 24. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ent in NSW would not have been possible in “the Leigh tradition,” they called out the Mission’s pio[...]and dedicated, but fundamentally ineffective.72 Leigh’s driven and idiosyncratic actions, while often[...]centrism.”74 These precepts not only influenced Leigh’s preaching but formed the basis of his mission[...]ney, Australia: The University of Sydney, Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s Legacy Regardless of the theological underpi[...]est, subsequent scholarship has suggested that “Leigh was not a suitable person to be Superintendent of[...]m at Parramatta and elsewhere, were reinforced by Leigh’s reticence to challenge Marsden or resolve his[...]s. This view is supported by the statistics. When Leigh departed Sydney in 1832, Methodist membership in[...]eded 13,000.78 Although conversion numbers under Leigh demonstrated obvious deficits, church-civic relat[...]n O’Brien, “Not Radically a Dissenter: Samuel Leigh in the Colony of New South Wales,” Wesley and M[...]p://www.chr.org.au/fpbooks/SL/slhs9.html. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]o Anglican hegemony in Parramatta was taken up by Leigh’s younger cohort: Lawry, Walker, Carvosso and M[...]ied the theological divide between themselves and Leigh - while emphasising each side’s frustration.81 Lawry and company struggled with Leigh’s failure to challenge Anglican authority, buil[...]erations from his secret reports to London, while Leigh battled with his younger colleagues’ apparent d[...]extent, an impossible situation, resolved only by Leigh’s eventual return to England. Judgement on Leigh’s Australian legacy has subsequently depended u[...]n influenced by the wild and unhappy tales of Mr. Leigh, the observation I would as well apply to the sac[...]in Wright and Clancy, The Methodists, 11. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]elmingly reverential. Less favourable reviews of Leigh as an administrator and as a vacillating, sometim[...]tings of Glen O’Brien, who has asserted that “LeighLeigh’s conduct as counter-productive to the success[...]ted - rather than stymied - its achievements. Had Leigh and Lawry not fostered a polite and functioning r[...]ilarly, the extent of the Parramatta Circuit that Leigh was permitted to access would have been severely prohibited. The ability of ‘sectary’ Leigh to negotiate free passage through such a vast are[...]gland: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2015), 16. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]onial leaders, both religious and secular, Samuel Leigh’s capacity to win his regard was an early, and[...]estimated, achievement. In the Governor’s eyes, Leigh appeared to represent qualities that his nemesis[...]nd un-hypocritical Christianity. Unlike Marsden, Leigh was also not considered a ‘threat,’ and in th[...]more heinous manifestations. In this sense, while Leigh may not have been singularly responsible for foun[...]denominational growth. Nonetheless, glimpses of Leigh throughout the literature reveal the complexities[...]friend of ‘rebel’ missionary Ralph Mansfield, Leigh was, in fact “diseased in the mind.”84 Observ[...]ien, “Not Radically a Dissenter,” 76. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	and Leigh’s obvious tendencies to pettiness dogged him th[...]f manner not always agreeable.”85 It seems that Leigh’s difficulties with his colleagues had not been[...]ed the last word. During his time in Parramatta, Leigh had many roles and experiences that demonstrated,[...]zabeth Kaye, a widow who shared his final years), Leigh’s romantic rivalry with Walter Lawry (Mary Hass[...]tance. It also influenced the accusations made by Leigh against Lawry and the other Parramatta missionari[...]ons between they and local Anglican authorities. Leigh’s persistent allegations, and the deteriorating[...]tions of misconduct - including those levelled by Leigh - Lawry suffered the loss, while still in 85 Wesleyan Conference Minutes, 1853, Samuel Leigh Obituary, quoted in Jones, Milton’sMissionary, 17. 86 Samuel Leigh, Letter to the WMMS, October 23, 1821, Bonwick Transcripts, Missionary Papers, 4:957, Box 52. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s voyage and relocation forced upon his family by Leigh’s meddling, became an open wound that never healed. Catherine Leigh Unlike Walter Lawry, who married and began his f[...]atta-born “currency lass” wife, Mary), Samuel Leigh spent the first portion of his antipodean tenure[...]ldless. Although it would be later in life before Leigh adopted two of his second wife Elizabeth’s youn[...]espite 87 Strachan, The Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, 106. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ndful of the authority of the Established Church, Leigh would first preach to the children at the Wesleya[...]s - their strategy backfired in the decades after Leigh’s departure, especially as congregation numbers[...]rramatta of the problematic sect that he wrote to Leigh in 1821 suggesting a less than subtle geographica[...]f Grace, 46. 90 William Cowper - letter to Samuel Leigh, November 8, 1821, in Udy, Spark of Grace, 56-57. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n the period, mission wives Mary Lawry, Catherine Leigh and others were resolutely tough and pivotal figu[...]ring the Leighs’ New Zealand mission, Catherine Leigh was particularly invested in the protection of Ma[...]n teachings and the English language. Catherine Leigh’s multiskilled contribution in the Bay of Islan[...]dism (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1983), xii. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Methodist Missionary Committee. When Catherine Leigh died, aged 50, after visiting Parramatta families[...]is unsurprising that the inscription on Catherine Leigh’s gravesite at St. John’s cemetery in Parrama[...]: Bridget Williams Books, 2012), 17. 93 Catherine Leigh’s death was likely caused by a water-born virus[...]markable Incidents in the Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, 106. 95 “Clergy-wives - long attested in all d[...]ist Women,” 216. 96 Engraved tribute, Catherine Leigh’s grave, St. John’s cemetery, O’Connell Str[...]n, “Australian Methodist Women,” 212. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]& the gravesite of Catherine Leigh, St. John’s cemetery, Parramatta[...]INE, Wife of Rev. SAMUEL LEIGH, First Missionary to the C[...]May 15th, 1831. Aged 50 years. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s wife Catherine was a devastating blow to Samuel Leigh and one which brought a swift end to his Australi[...]the Macquarie Street Parramatta Chapel in 1821 - Leigh departed for a holiday in England in 1828 with a[...]hey had written, “O may you and our dear Sister Leigh be always guided by the counsel of the Most High[...]n dutiful flattery, the trustees’ letter hailed Leigh as the man whose self-determined Arminianism and[...]ve life and tussles with his fellow missionaries, Leigh grew fond of the location that he had first 98[...]the Parramatta Wesleyan Church to Reverend Samuel Leigh and Mrs. Leigh, 1828, copy of original (Parramatta, NSW: Parramatta Mission Archival Collection, n.d.). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]uring the final phase of his Australian ministry, Leigh addressed the Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the We[...]gathering as follows, The Rev. S. Leigh, in the course of u interesting spee[...]honour of his church naming aside, appraisals of Leigh’s time at Parramatta do not reveal an unblemish[...]d evaluations during his time in Sydney’s West, Leigh’s character and work were far from two-dimensional, lackadaisical or dispassionate. Leigh was, in fact, an earnest, if gradually less astut[...]world. These facts also remind those who explore Leigh’s legacy, including his role in establishing 100 Samuel Leigh, “Tenth Anniversary Meeting, the Wesleyan Auxil[...]W,” Sydney Gazette, October 7, 1830, 2. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]is also not undeserved. Failings notwithstanding, Leigh’s Christian conviction and Wesleyan-Arminian et[...]e town. Standing to this day on Macquarie Street, Leigh Memorial Church - named in his honour in 1899 - is a Parramatta landmark and symbolic of Leigh’s achievements and the Mission’s long-ranging civic resonance. Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta (interior), 2019[...]William Davidson pipe organ (1879) Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	1) Architectural sketch, Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta (James Tosh, 1883) 2) Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta, 2019. Leigh Memorial Church, Macquarie Street Parramatta, c. 1910 (eastern facade) Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Samuel Leigh Colloquium Transcripts Collection SAMUEL LEIGH 200th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM[...]\|\|k On the evening of Sunday 23 August, 2015 at Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta, a ‘Heritage Colloq[...]concluding event of Parramatta Mission’s Samuel Leigh 200th Anniversary program. The evening involved the presentation of five papers exploring Leigh’s legacy and matters of church history from var[...]- including those surveying the repercussions of Leigh’s ministry for Parramatta Mission and his broad[...]ation. Two articles, written for our first Samuel Leigh book in 2015 by Inise Foiakau of the Leigh Fijian congregation and Christine Bayliss Kelly,[...], have been included in this collection. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]d place are of course different to that of Samuel Leigh, yet we can learn from him and his time, appropri[...]f their movements - left lasting legacies. Samuel Leigh, the first Wesleyan Methodist missionary to Australia and New Zealand, was no different. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]is important, and always has been. That Samuel Leigh succeeded in his vision that Governor Macquarie s[...]emarkable incidents in the life ofthe Rev. Samuel Leigh, 1853: 90-91) Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]. Our ancestors here set about building on Samuel Leigh’s vision of ‘place’ by building a neo-gothi[...]ill, in the early part of twentieth century, show Leigh Memorial in its elegant beauty with spire standin[...]is where cultivation takes place. While Samuel Leigh did not use that image of a clearing in the woods, it is useful. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Samuel Leigh was inspired, convicted, and driven by this text[...]in God who has created all things. If you like, Leigh was called to be a “clearing in the woods” -[...]urch is not just for us, and it never has been. Leigh had to be wise and ‘political’ (in the broad[...]uarie granting land such as ours in Parramatta. LeighLeigh had not fostered those relationships he would hav[...]ip in New Zealand (Strachan: 217-219). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]rchable riches of Christ,” (Ephesians 3:18-9) - Leigh had a big vision. Samuel Leigh established faith communities in places such as L[...]has been at its best, like in the time of Samuel Leigh, or the 1880s with people like the Byrnes father[...]effect. Our pioneers, like Samuel and Catherine Leigh, Samuel Marsden, Dr John Dunmore Lang, or the Has[...]lexander Strachan concludes are evident in Samuel Leigh. Not all would agree with this list, but they are worth hearing. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	1. Leigh was singularly qualified for the arduous duties a[...]nciples of true religion. (Strachan: 383) 2. Mr. Leigh was a man of earnest and unaffected piety. Mr. Leigh was truly converted to God in early life; and “[...]ude was another distinguishing peculiarity in Mr. Leigh. With him there was no affectation of qualities t[...]l, transparent, and real. (Strachan: 385) 4. Mr. Leigh carried industry and punctuality into all the dut[...]heedlessly. (Strachan: 337) 5. The spirit of Mr. Leigh was truly catholic. (Strachan: 389) Strachan, at the end of his book on Leigh, writes that if the mission to the southern lands[...]re challenging than at any other time. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Strachan also in summing up the life of Samuel Leigh, points to the eschaton, the future, the end of t[...]n Isaac Watts hymn which brought encouragement to Leigh and to many: Jesus[...]sus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun, 1719. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ifetime. We can think about the journey of Samuel Leigh throughout the decades as a Hikoi - bringing into[...]nniversary events in 2015. It is also the Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ges and the list goes on. Little wonder that the Leigh Memorial Congregation in conjunction with the Leigh Fijian Congregation live out hospitality too - or[...]d Faith and Hope. Two hundred years since Samuel Leigh began riding his horse around the Parramatta area[...]ifference - all in the name of Christ. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Will the real Samuel Leigh please stand up? Samuel Leigh and the Beginnings of the Wesleyan mission to New[...]e of a foundational figure, a pioneer like Samuel Leigh, there is the risk of hagiography. Writing in 185[...]emarkable Incidents in the Life of the Rev Samuel Leigh; the sub-title reads, Missionary to the Settlers[...]An Account of the Life and Work of the Rev Samuel Leigh. At the other end of the spectrum there is a ris[...]y, negative edit profiling. In the case of Samuel Leigh that might mean taking the side of his contempora[...]May the Almighty bring good out of evil Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	- and save our souls from hell”. And again, Lawry deemed Leigh to be “of such a curious and eccentric manner t[...]ial lecture, Glen O’Brien has made the case for Leigh being “remembered as a pioneer, but not as a bu[...]et out to explore the troubled relationship which Leigh had with his co-workers on both sides of the Tasman. It was his considered opinion that Leigh (though still a relatively young man) had closer[...]to avoid sectarian conflict. Leigh’s letters of authorization were not recognized[...]friendship and concern of Marsden? In the wake of Leigh’s interview Macquarie determined that in future[...]“the new and rising colony”. True to his word Leigh did not seek to set himself up as a radical disse[...]he course of time the divisions would harden with Leigh, on occasion, on one side with the colonial Angli[...]the other side. 102 Glen O’Brien, “Samuel Leigh in Australia and New Zealand”, An address given[...]n Church, Auckland, 8 August, 2015, p. 1. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	The relationship between Leigh and Lawry should not detain us though it is of in[...]“attractive to the ladies”. It was said that Leigh’s preaching, by way of comparison, was far below the local exhorters in Cornwall. O’Brien notes that Leigh’s seminary education was very limited.103 Lawry[...]ding to J.M.R. Owens “something of a crisis for Leigh”. On 17 January 1821 Samuel Leigh received his instructions at a public ordination[...]ate the dense negro population of the Gambia”. Leigh was given “a considerable quantity of hardware,[...]vice which might prove beneficial to all parties. Leigh was charged to remonstrate against cruelty and to “soften the barbarism of their manners. Leigh was advised that the Methodist intention was “n[...]el recover his 103 O’Brien, pp. 1-2. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]expense of this first visit. Now, on 5 May 1819, Leigh arrived in the Bay of Islands and remained until[...]trachan’s Life paints a more colourful picture. Leigh’s own reports show him as a mediator between th[...]em like a disorganised rabble; it is evident that Leigh was exposed to tattooed human heads for sale; tha[...]chief for his pains. John King also reported that Leigh gave an axe for the body of a little boy, slain f[...]meal way and when they were later half dug up and Leigh intervened, the Maoris accused him of working on the Sabbath. For this second visit LeighLeigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh was in no small measure responsible for this miss[...]f £5000 and could not undertake any new mission. Leigh would not take no for an answer. He went round th[...]among the “savage cannibals” of New Zealand. Leigh’s capacity to arouse great interest in this pro[...]cording to Strachan Hongi stayed for a while with Leigh; he slept on the floor as he did not like beds and Leigh followed suit for the duration Leigh set sail for Sydney on the Brixton on 28 April 18[...]ady of the name of Clewes”. That is Catherine. Leigh was now the “General Superintendent of Missions[...]in the Bay of Islands, 22 January 1822. Initially Leigh had been opposed to the idea of ‘artificers’ accompanying the missionaries but Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Islands and the rest of the party. For 16 months Leigh was effectively a member of the CMS mission; he f[...](who had “gone native”). It is not clear why Leigh did not go and set up his own mission during this[...]the tribe around Mercury Bay? Kendall, no fan of Leigh, reckoned that Leigh nevertheless could have settled elsewhere - as in[...]rning to speak Maori first? Strachan reports that Leigh and his wife wrote prayers and hymns in English w[...]ed into Maori with the assistance of the CMS. Was Leigh a linguist? Lawry reckoned that he and his wife had learned more Maori in two weeks than Leigh had done in six months. On his arrival Turner reckoned that Leigh had not learned in 18 months enough Maori to “s[...]r training in languages. It seems as if Catherine Leigh learnt Maori. Leigh was conscious of the need to understand the peopl[...]ellent way and the True God in who we believe”. Leigh would write about tapu, burial customs, the spiri[...]e the Sabbath. But, Owen concludes that Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	on none of these subjects did Leigh show any more insight than what he had learnt from his CMS colleagues. In July 1822 Leigh and the CMS were visited by Lawry and his wife wh[...]happy at this prospect and the complaints against Leigh whom he believed was responsible for manoeuvring Lawry out of New South Wales. The relationship between Leigh and Lawry is a subject in and of itself. There wa[...]ut it was not long- lived. Strachan records that Leigh made a couple of exploratory expeditions during t[...]growing potatoes for trade. Owen is sceptical of Leigh’s account of the Whangaroa visit which he made[...]angaroa at this time and it is possible the older Leigh was mixing up his visits to Whangaroa later and to Whangarei. For what it’s worth here is Leigh’s account. Leigh was evidently mindful of Whangaroa’s reputation[...]ere that the crew of the Boyd had been massacred. Leigh claimed that he had made “voyages of investigat[...]ut roasting and eating them the next day, Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ering the most discordant and unearthly yells”. Leigh took flight and threw some fish hooks after himse[...]he area for 5 months while acquiring kauri spars. Leigh had been there, as we have seen in his throwing f[...], the value of trade and how they lived. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n the first Sunday they held a service where both Leigh and Butler preached. They duly set up a shelter o[...]rtable house was being built. The tent leaked and Leigh recalled the “the heavy due” coming through t[...]h goods had been brought. How are we to evaluate Leigh’s role in Whangaroa? Owen believes that it is difficult to assess the part played by Leigh and his wife. Strachan’s life of Leigh ignores White and inflates Leigh’s role. In the Strachan version Leigh was the peacemaker; an industrious resourceful pi[...]tirely true? The contemporary documents show that Leigh’s health was deteriorating. Was he capable of m[...]om Marsden on 7 August which can to set in motion Leigh’s departure. Leigh had informed Marsden of his ill-health and his difficulty of Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]es wished to settle. On his arrival Marsden found Leigh very ill and recommended that he should return to[...]s not genuine. Turner thought the real reason for Leigh’s eventual departure was that he had neither th[...]te confided in him that it would be a blessing if Leigh went, for if he stayed that would only hinder the[...]tor of the Sydney Gazette wrote: “Evidently Mr. Leigh is diseased in mind, for his body appears as stro[...], if ever he was adapted to a missionary life”. Leigh had got caught up again in squabbles with Lawry on his return to Sydney. Howe added: “Mrs. Leigh is an excellent woman”. Will the real Samuel Leigh please stand up? We are faced with two competing[...]observes the need to take care of the criticisms Leigh received. They themselves were subject to critici[...]g men are apt to be too soon angry”. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Marsden has also feared for Leigh’s health and knew how difficult it was to govern young missionaries. Leigh’s doctor did not consider he was shamming. In February 1824 he certified that Leigh was “seriously indisposed with chronic affection of the liver and of the abdominal viscera generally”. Leigh would never return to New Zealand. The Wesleydale[...]kianga on the west coast. One hundred years after Leigh and his party first arrived, the Maori members of[...]by the Reverend Samuel Leigh What God has wrought! Numbe[...]er, c. 1823. Turner was with Samuel and Catherine Leigh at Wesleydale and continued the Wesleyan mission in New Zealand following their departure. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Mrs Inise Foiakau Leigh Fijian congregation As a diasporic community th[...]ttle, ‘dry our feet’ and make our home as the Leigh Fijian congregation at Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta Mission - we are cons[...]ain things, yet hold on to what we value. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ekeepers’ that shine the light and remind us of Leigh Memorial’s heritage, including the important role of first Methodist missionary to NSW, Samuel Leigh - and his wife Catherine - which is now our herit[...]e so that together, life and witness programs for Leigh Fijian will continue to address the needs of all. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]sure and are attentive to their history. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]7, The Uniting Church in Australia: The Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]f doing mission in the city of Sydney. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]what we assume to be right and wrong. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh Memorial, for example, has had strong links with[...]d London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Ecclesiology, London, SCM, 1977, p. xiii. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]eatures/your-say/a-downward-slope-for-uca Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh's Portraits Dr[...]wrote for this year’s anniversary book, Samuel Leigh - Parramatta Mission Pioneer. The article in question, Leigh’s Portraits, is my favourite. It examines the ways in which Leigh was portrayed in art, both in his lifetime and po[...]inated by the way in which figures such as Samuel Leigh were depicted in the era before photography - let[...]ating. Portraiture possesses the ability Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]iderations such as these were at play when Samuel Leigh’s portraits were created and have subsequently[...]The first image of Leigh to receive public[...]established Leigh as a noteworthy person[...]ybe just a hint of vulnerability). In addition to Leigh, Jackson’s impressive catalogue included Method[...]aiture-6c1dd2e7655f 110 John Jackson, Rev. Samuel Leigh, oil on canvas (c. 1820). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]between 1778 and 1969). Jackson’s portrayal of Leigh was typical of his repertoire, and in a style des[...]12 Instead, he intended that his portrayal of Rev Leigh would provide a genuine glimpse of both Leigh the man and Leigh the missionary. Moreover, he hoped that it would[...]t of the Methodist commissions, including that of Leigh’s colleague, Rev Walter Lawry.[...]Alexander Strachan’s biography of Leigh in 18[...]dened Leigh’s eyes, lightened his face, and gave him a[...]‘photoshopped’ Leigh into a more appealing[...]), 355. 112 Ibid. 113 George Stodart, Rev. Samuel Leigh, engraving (c. 1853). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Samuel Leigh was an anonymous,[...]Samuel Leigh (illustrated edition,[...]In the frontispiece, Leigh is depicted[...]lustration shown at number ‘III’ is Catherine Leigh, helping to dress Maori infants. It is sub-titled[...]4 Alexander Strachan, The Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Savages and Settlers of Austra[...].edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/portrait/ Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]new point of understanding in relation to Samuel Leigh - a man weighed down by the complexities of his o[...]sionary vision. Regardless of what we glean from Leigh’s portraits however, it is what they don’t te[...]It is testimony to Samuel Leigh’s enigmatic contribution that his portraits sti[...]Frontispieces, biography of Samuel Leigh (illustrated edition), 1870. 117 Richard Brilli[...]e, Alexander Strachan, The Life of the Rev Samuel Leigh (Illustrated Edition), 1870. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ev Dr Manas Ghosh Minister, Leigh Memorial congregation I begin with a confession. I knew nothing about Samuel Leigh until I came to Leigh Memorial Church in July last year. You could say[...]mittee didn’t ask me any questions about Samuel Leigh during my number of interviews with them. Otherwi[...]ave been very embarrassing! But - since I came to Leigh Memorial Church, it became necessary for me to ex[...]lanning for the bicentenary celebration of Samuel Leigh’s arrival in New South Wales. My first port of[...]t book it revealed was The Life of the Rev Samuel Leigh by Alexander Strachan. It was first published by[...]rk of Grace which has a couple chapters on Samuel Leigh. I found our resident historian Liz de Reland’s series of articles on Leigh Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]e to time has shared with me many anecdotes about Leigh. That person is Keith Hamilton. As a matter of fa[...]t the wrong shipment of the furniture that Samuel Leigh received - “furniture for the horse instead of[...]o give you. Tonight, our speakers threw light on Leigh’s life from many different angles. In my reflec[...]mentions some objectives for writing the book on Leigh which are: “To give a comprehensive view of th[...]atives of Australia or Africa or Asia. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]others. But in this long two hundred years since Leigh came to Parramatta we have come to realise, painf[...]My second observation from Strachan’s book on Leigh is “the privations, labours and appalling dange[...]this statement. While I was reading about Samuel Leigh, I remembered another great missionary Dr William[...]to India in 1793, that is, 22 years earlier than Leigh came to Australia. During my theological studies[...]tudy on Carey’s life, and I can share with you, Leigh’s wasn’t much different Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s and technologies that were unheard of by Samuel Leigh, we are not immune from the “privations, labour[...]to secure the higher objects of our mission. But LeighLeigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ission, 2018. de Reland, Elizabeth (ed.). Samuel Leigh: Parramatta Mission Pioneer, 1815 2015. Parrama[...]d Fruitgrowers Advocate, July 15, 1905. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]’s Missionary: The Life and Work of Rev. Samuel Leigh 1785-1852, First Methodist missionary to Australia and New Zealand, with a Brief History of Leigh Memorial Methodist Church, Milton, built 1865. Milton: Leigh Memorial Methodist Church, 1986. Keeling, Anne.[...]Some Accounts of the Life and Work ofRev. Samuel Leigh. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1896. Lawry, Walter.[...]Brien, Glen. “Not Radically a Dissenter: Samuel Leigh in the Colony of New South Wales.” (Wesleyan an[...]40-1914. Monash University Press, 2018. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Settlers and Savages of New Ze[...]Strachan, Alexander. The Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Savages and Settlers ofAustral[...]o a European beholder...’: The Papers of Samuel Leigh.” October 4, 2012. The Burke Library Blog. http[...]re-very- afflicting-to-a-european-beholder-samuel-leigh-papers/. “Where Pioneers Sleep. Tombstone Tale[...]les. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	SAMUEL LEIGH FIRST WESLEYAN MISSIONARY TO AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEA[...]Ken Morgan Samuel Leigh - First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia and New[...]a Mission’s ‘Heritage Colloquium’ on Samuel Leigh (2015) is also included in this publication.[...]vj/ PARRAMATTA Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]& Elizabeth de Reland.3 Samuel Leigh - Elizabeth de Reland... 4-44 Keith H[...]53-54 Clive Pearson: Will the real Samuel Leigh please stand up?... 55-65 In[...]ters .68-74 Elizabeth de Reland: Leigh S Portraits .75-79 Manas Ghos[...]Selected References/ Suggested Reading.84-86 Leigh Memorial Church - original artwork by Darug artis[...]Parramatta Mission Leigh Memorial Church is part of Parramatta Mission, wh[...]three Uniting Church in Australia congregations: Leigh Memorial, Westmead and Leigh Fijian, plus a Korean Faith Community. The Uniti[...]s to elders past, present and emerging. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Preface Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia and New Zealand offers a fresh perspective on Rev Samuel Leigh and his ground-breaking mission to the South Seas[...]sorts to Parramatta Mission’s 2015 book, Samuel Leigh - Parramatta Mission Pioneer. Our second book on Leigh is released in recognition of the 200th anniversa[...]he Parramatta Mission Heritage Committee. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia and New Zealand does not attempt to cover the full extent of Leigh’s contribution in two countries - nor does it p[...]land mission. Instead, it provides an overview of Leigh’s bi-national contributions and does so by util[...]e to be said regarding the contribution of Samuel Leigh’s wife, Catherine Leigh - including her roles as a pioneer midwife, Sunda[...]milton and Elizabeth de Reland, May 2019. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Samuel Leigh Elizabeth de Reland Looking into Samuel Leigh’s eyes, as depicted in George Stodart’s mid[...]eaching trail with a passion to transform lives.1 Leigh’s gaze, matched by the tall, imposing physique[...]de to his pulpit in Parramatta’s first Chapel - Leigh’s time in the town was a landmark, if controver[...]rst Methodist mission. Hunt’s recollections of Leigh - and his declaration that he would “never forg[...]ramatta” 1 George Stodart, Engraving ofSamuel Leigh (after an original 1820 oil painting by John Jack[...]1977), 18. 3 James Carruthers, “The Rev. Samuel Leigh,” Methodist, August 28, 1897, 1; James Carruthe[...]eers,” Methodist, February 26, 1910, 2. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]e of name for his Parramatta church to that of ‘Leigh Memorial,’ also included references to Leigh’s personal fortitude and what many old parishioners recalled as Leigh’s interest in the welfare of children, his dedi[...]“.a study of the life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh serves to show that he was a true succe[...]death of his wife and mission partner, Catherine LeighLeigh’s time in Sydney’s West was inevitably intens[...]aphy (1853) and other retrospective literature on Leigh, reveals the physical and mental toll of his work[...]1:15-16, cited in Carruthers, “The Rev. Samuel Leigh,” 1. 6 John Wesley, The Journal of Rev. John We[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Settlers and Savages ofNew Zea[...]es (London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1853). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]in 1785 in rural Milton (Staffordshire, England), Leigh grew up in a period of increasing industrialisati[...]to Wesleyan Methodism during his young adulthood, Leigh was almost 30 years old and only recently ordaine[...]d experience from many of his younger colleagues, Leigh distinguished himself on his journey to Sydney by[...]y the Captain if he feared capture by the French, Leigh had replied, “I am going to New South Wales as[...]fMethodism, 158. 9 Carruthers, “The Rev. Samuel Leigh,” 1. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ar and evangelical revivalism at home in England, Leigh’s courage and determination were unquestionable[...]international reputation.10 Missionaries such as Leigh were in fact, foundational in establishing key as[...]cathedrals of that age of religious revival.”11 Leigh’s role in the founding of Methodism in the anti[...]n magnitude and detail with the passing of time. Leigh’s time as the first Wesleyan missionary to NSW[...]Some Accounts of the Life and Work ofRev. Samuel Leigh (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1896). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]his character and in his collegial relationships, Leigh’s broader contribution was largely unquestioned[...]Church of Australasia throughout its existence. Leigh’s initial arrival in Sydney had been at the req[...]ve, but “not radically a dissenter,” found in Leigh a moderate and satisfactory candidate.13 Possessi[...]ardship, punishment and suspicion - they found in Leigh a devout and relatively unintellectual follower o[...]the nominal title of ‘Schoolmaster’ in 1815, Leigh managed to diffuse Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s[...]ent in a government position. After first telling Leigh that he could not accommodate him and that the 18[...]s full support.16 In fact, having been assured of Leigh’s acquiescence with the notions of Anglican and[...]Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993), 4. 14 Samuel Leigh to the WMMS Committee, London, December 1817 (n.d[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 36 16 N. D. McLachlan, “Macquarie, Lachlan (17[...].edu.au/biography/macquarie-lachlan-2419. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]in travelling from one township to another.”17 Leigh’s part in the negotiation had been aided by his[...]the counsel of those who have gone before.”18 Leigh at Parramatta Once approval for his ministry was obtained, Leigh set about establishing contacts in Sydney and the[...]e country, nearly in the centre of the Colony,” Leigh found the local environment quaint, reminiscent o[...], Rowland and Elizabeth Hassall and their family, Leigh was received with great cordiality by the Parrama[...]tting from the town’s ‘country’ affability, Leigh’s relationships with the Hassalls, Cowpers, Mar[...]n the town (possibly the Hassall’s house) where Leigh 17 Strachan, Remarkable Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 36. 18 Rebecca Weintraub, “‘Such scenes are[...]to a European beholder.’: The Papers of Samuel Leigh,” October 4, 2012, The Burke Library Blog, para[...]are-very-afflicting-to-a-european-beholder-samuel-leigh-papers/. 19 Strachan, Remarkable Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 48 20 Ibid, 52 21 Gloster Udy, Spark of Grace (Parramatta Mission, 1977), 18 Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]landholder). The Hassall residence was also where Leigh first encountered the family’s engaging 16 year[...]rramatta became a place of immediate interest for Leigh’s personal and missionary ambitions (including[...]providing community aid and thousands of Bibles. Leigh’s activism on its board and various others, inc[...]ydney, Parramatta, Liverpool and Windsor by 1822, Leigh’s capacity to engage communities and negotiate[...]regime and the Established Church - and Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]d - and to Castlereagh, Windsor and Wilberforce - Leigh also managed to establish mission stations in reg[...]odean appointment.23 Despite such broad success, LeighLeigh would subject his fellow Parramatta missionaries[...]Marsden).25 Making matters more challenging for Leigh and all involved were also the great distances, u[...]race, 26. 24 Ibid., 25. 25 “10th August, 1815 - Leigh arrives in N.S.W., 2nd March, 1819 - Leigh leaves for New Zealand.28th July 1819 - Leigh returns to Sydney., 24th February, 1820 - Leigh leaves for London.. ,16th September, 1821 - Leigh returns to N.S.W., 31st December, 1821 - Leigh leaves for New Zealand.. .1st December, 1823 - Leigh returns to Parramatta - a sick man.” Udy, Spark[...]tm/scholarly/tei-McNTasm-t1-body-d10.html Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh, Walker and the ‘Native Mission’ Working bet[...]for the seventeen years of his antipodean tenure, Leigh also assisted Wesleyan missionary William Walker[...]ls in the early to mid-1820s.28 Supported by Rev Leigh, Walker negotiated the delicate church-civic divi[...]ing the desperate condition of Aboriginal people. Leigh, more patient with the predicament of Western Syd[...]ament or remediation of the “New Hollanders,” Leigh’s and Walker’s letters and their gathered emp[...]ives, many wise observations were made.” Samuel Leigh, Letter to the WMMS, 1 November 1821, Elizabeth de Reland (ed.), Samuel Leigh, Parramatta Mission Pioneer (Parramatta Mission, 2015), 37. 29 Lawry, Diary, March 17, 1819, 35. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]30 * 30 Letter, Samuel Leigh to the Secretaries of the Wesleyan Mission Societ[...]matta Mission archival collection, n.d.). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n.’ Having commenced in 1814, one year prior to Leigh’s arrival, the Institution ultimately become an[...], 1823, cited in Udy, Spark of Grace, 91. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...], The Fountain of Public Prosperity, 126. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ne in Parramatta or the surrounding region.”36 Leigh’s regular absences from NSW during the “Missi[...]people and their traditions,”37 inroads made by Leigh, Walker, Lawry and other Wesleyan missionaries se[...]us and settler groups) by century’s end.38 For Leigh, a further decade of hard labour on all matters p[...]n and Carey, Methodism in Australia, 199. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s Character Leigh was eulogised in both England and Australasia as[...]hough a contentious figure throughout his career, Leigh had established numerous class meetings, congrega[...]y footholds for Methodism, there is no doubt that Leigh beat his body, mind and spirit so hard from the o[...]over. These were designed to prevent - or treat - Leigh’s imminent collapses and to reinvigorate his mi[...]ia: Stanford University Press, 1984), 16. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]e evangelistic imperatives of the Wesleyan cause, Leigh’s absences from the Parramatta Circuit and peri[...]egan to grow. Lawry was particularly irritated by Leigh’s absence from the gruelling Circuit in the Aut[...]e working together, Lawry had also struggled with Leigh’s personal variability, or as he noted, “Mr. Leigh, with whom I wish the most intimate union, is of[...]on, Bro. Lawry is not more to be blamed than Bro. Leigh.”42 Despite posthumously conceded deficits in Leigh’s performance, his biographer Strachan preferre[...]ascibility, pettiness or otherwise. In support of Leigh, 40 Lawry, Diary, September 2, 1819. 41 Lawry,[...]21, quoted in Udy, Spark of Grace, 58-59. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel LeighLeigh’s escapades. Strachan’s books left no doubt[...]s to which his efforts had taken him. Accounts of Leigh sleeping rough in the western Sydney bush, riding[...]matched by those describing a desperately hungry Leigh in search of food. One such anecdote involved him[...]seed scraps previously thrown to chickens.43 As Leigh himself reported to the London Committee in 1816,[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 93. 44 Samuel Leigh, Letter to the Missionary Committee, March 2, 181[...]llection, Parramatta Mission Archives). 45 Samuel Leigh, Letter of July 20, 1823, quoted in Pauline Jones, Milton’sMissionary: The Life and Work ofRev. Samuel Leigh 1785-1852, First Methodist missionary to Australi[...]Methodist Church, Milton, built 1865 (Milton UK: Leigh Memorial Methodist Church, 1986), 15. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s habit of pushing himself to the limit in his[...]rramatta Mission has regularly referred to Samuel Leigh’s efforts. His presence is viewed as having set[...]alding the Mission’s 200th anniversary in 2015. Leigh was, after all, the ultimate ‘poster-boy’ for its motto: ‘Transforming Lives.’46 Leigh, Macquarie and Marsden As the first Wesleyan mis[...]es of the Movement in Australia initially rested, Leigh had entered the strange, convict and military-bas[...]spondence with their Sydney counterparts that Rev Leigh was required to bring “furniture for a horse”[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, 34. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Macquarie quickly resolved to tolerate and even encourage Leigh’s presence however, and was pleased by his and[...]of King George III and a devoted Arminian, Samuel Leigh was also influenced by the cultural pre-occupatio[...]n-introduction-to-calvinism-arminianism/ Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]th Wales, 1824 (artist: Joseph Lycett). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Rev Samuel Leigh, Rev Samuel Marsden Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Rev Walter Lawry Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ship boom of the mid-to-late nineteenth century - Leigh’s favour with Macquarie’s government and Parr[...]ter I left the colony, many left the society”), Leigh nonetheless made some important gains.55 These i[...]ocial remediation. Such relationships had enabled Leigh, regardless of his deficits as an evangelist and[...]high society and civic jurisdictions. Similarly, Leigh’s lack of financial and ecclesiastical ambition[...]Wright and Clancy, The Methodists, 16. 55 Samuel Leigh, WMMS Letter, October 24, 1821, quoted in Wright and Clancy, The Methodists, 56. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n cause in Sydney’s West. It could be said that Leigh’s personal ‘obsequiousness’ had paid off. H[...]le in the maintenance of the rule of law. Just as Leigh’s foray into missionary work in Sydney’s West[...]at lifting the tone of colonial life. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]nd compliant approach adopted by first missionary Leigh, and a succession of early Wesleyan representativ[...]lonial Sydney. Moreover, it is little wonder that Leigh’s arrival into this ‘Macquarie-esque’ world[...]), 307/ (Romans 12: 9, King James Bible). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s presence became a happy prospect for Macquari[...]ral edification and the evangelistic intensity of Leigh and the other early Wesleyans (albeit complicated[...]thesis, Macquarie University, 2016), 14. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s feelings about Marsden, Macquarie viewed Samuel Leigh as the face of humble, pious Christianity and a l[...]y Miss. Ann Marsden), Macquarie’s confidence in Leigh, and others like him, rested in stark contrast wi[...]uarie’s disdain for the chief parson increased, Leigh’s close association with him did little to impr[...]negotiations) shifted sharply towards Lawry over Leigh. This interesting twist, at least partly necessitated by Leigh’s departure for New Zealand in 1819, ultimately[...]s remarkable within the whole predicament is that Leigh and Lawry managed to maintain working relationshi[...]solved and they were barely on speaking terms.65 Leigh the evangelist While Macquarie and Marsden strug[...]lationship throughout Macquarie’s governorship, Leigh’s efforts to increase the scope of conversions[...]l History), (Camperdown: Bolt, 2016), 11. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]controversial. More importantly, they produced in Leigh a level of self-punishment that sometimes clouded[...]mbers hailed as a sense of God in their midst.68 Leigh however, struggled frequently in his new environs[...]and what had been an impassioned, early effort by Leigh and his cohort - multiple factors began to work a[...]08 70 Lawry, Diary, December 8, 1818, 24. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ent in NSW would not have been possible in “the Leigh tradition,” they called out the Mission’s pio[...]and dedicated, but fundamentally ineffective.72 Leigh’s driven and idiosyncratic actions, while often[...]centrism.”74 These precepts not only influenced Leigh’s preaching but formed the basis of his mission[...]ney, Australia: The University of Sydney, Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh’s Legacy Regardless of the theological underpi[...]est, subsequent scholarship has suggested that “Leigh was not a suitable person to be Superintendent of[...]m at Parramatta and elsewhere, were reinforced by Leigh’s reticence to challenge Marsden or resolve his[...]s. This view is supported by the statistics. When Leigh departed Sydney in 1832, Methodist membership in[...]eded 13,000.78 Although conversion numbers under Leigh demonstrated obvious deficits, church-civic relat[...]n O’Brien, “Not Radically a Dissenter: Samuel Leigh in the Colony of New South Wales,” Wesley and M[...]p://www.chr.org.au/fpbooks/SL/slhs9.html. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]o Anglican hegemony in Parramatta was taken up by Leigh’s younger cohort: Lawry, Walker, Carvosso and M[...]ied the theological divide between themselves and Leigh - while emphasising each side’s frustration.81 Lawry and company struggled with Leigh’s failure to challenge Anglican authority, buil[...]erations from his secret reports to London, while Leigh battled with his younger colleagues’ apparent d[...]extent, an impossible situation, resolved only by Leigh’s eventual return to England. Judgement on Leigh’s Australian legacy has subsequently depended u[...]n influenced by the wild and unhappy tales of Mr. Leigh, the observation I would as well apply to the sac[...]in Wright and Clancy, The Methodists, 11. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]elmingly reverential. Less favourable reviews of Leigh as an administrator and as a vacillating, sometim[...]tings of Glen O’Brien, who has asserted that “LeighLeigh’s conduct as counter-productive to the success[...]ted - rather than stymied - its achievements. Had Leigh and Lawry not fostered a polite and functioning r[...]ilarly, the extent of the Parramatta Circuit that Leigh was permitted to access would have been severely prohibited. The ability of ‘sectary’ Leigh to negotiate free passage through such a vast are[...]gland: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2015), 16. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]onial leaders, both religious and secular, Samuel Leigh’s capacity to win his regard was an early, and[...]estimated, achievement. In the Governor’s eyes, Leigh appeared to represent qualities that his nemesis[...]nd un-hypocritical Christianity. Unlike Marsden, Leigh was also not considered a ‘threat,’ and in th[...]more heinous manifestations. In this sense, while Leigh may not have been singularly responsible for foun[...]denominational growth. Nonetheless, glimpses of Leigh throughout the literature reveal the complexities[...]friend of ‘rebel’ missionary Ralph Mansfield, Leigh was, in fact “diseased in the mind.”84 Observ[...]ien, “Not Radically a Dissenter,” 76. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	and Leigh’s obvious tendencies to pettiness dogged him th[...]f manner not always agreeable.”85 It seems that Leigh’s difficulties with his colleagues had not been[...]ed the last word. During his time in Parramatta, Leigh had many roles and experiences that demonstrated,[...]zabeth Kaye, a widow who shared his final years), Leigh’s romantic rivalry with Walter Lawry (Mary Hass[...]tance. It also influenced the accusations made by Leigh against Lawry and the other Parramatta missionari[...]ons between they and local Anglican authorities. Leigh’s persistent allegations, and the deteriorating[...]tions of misconduct - including those levelled by Leigh - Lawry suffered the loss, while still in 85 Wesleyan Conference Minutes, 1853, Samuel Leigh Obituary, quoted in Jones, Milton’sMissionary, 17. 86 Samuel Leigh, Letter to the WMMS, October 23, 1821, Bonwick Transcripts, Missionary Papers, 4:957, Box 52. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s voyage and relocation forced upon his family by Leigh’s meddling, became an open wound that never healed. Catherine Leigh Unlike Walter Lawry, who married and began his f[...]atta-born “currency lass” wife, Mary), Samuel Leigh spent the first portion of his antipodean tenure[...]ldless. Although it would be later in life before Leigh adopted two of his second wife Elizabeth’s youn[...]espite 87 Strachan, The Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, 106. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ndful of the authority of the Established Church, Leigh would first preach to the children at the Wesleya[...]s - their strategy backfired in the decades after Leigh’s departure, especially as congregation numbers[...]rramatta of the problematic sect that he wrote to Leigh in 1821 suggesting a less than subtle geographica[...]f Grace, 46. 90 William Cowper - letter to Samuel Leigh, November 8, 1821, in Udy, Spark of Grace, 56-57. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n the period, mission wives Mary Lawry, Catherine Leigh and others were resolutely tough and pivotal figu[...]ring the Leighs’ New Zealand mission, Catherine Leigh was particularly invested in the protection of Ma[...]n teachings and the English language. Catherine Leigh’s multiskilled contribution in the Bay of Islan[...]dism (New York: Edwin Mellen, 1983), xii. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Methodist Missionary Committee. When Catherine Leigh died, aged 50, after visiting Parramatta families[...]is unsurprising that the inscription on Catherine Leigh’s gravesite at St. John’s cemetery in Parrama[...]: Bridget Williams Books, 2012), 17. 93 Catherine Leigh’s death was likely caused by a water-born virus[...]markable Incidents in the Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, 106. 95 “Clergy-wives - long attested in all d[...]ist Women,” 216. 96 Engraved tribute, Catherine Leigh’s grave, St. John’s cemetery, O’Connell Str[...]n, “Australian Methodist Women,” 212. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]& the gravesite of Catherine Leigh, St. John’s cemetery, Parramatta[...]INE, Wife of Rev. SAMUEL LEIGH, First Missionary to the C[...]May 15th, 1831. Aged 50 years. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s wife Catherine was a devastating blow to Samuel Leigh and one which brought a swift end to his Australi[...]the Macquarie Street Parramatta Chapel in 1821 - Leigh departed for a holiday in England in 1828 with a[...]hey had written, “O may you and our dear Sister Leigh be always guided by the counsel of the Most High[...]n dutiful flattery, the trustees’ letter hailed Leigh as the man whose self-determined Arminianism and[...]ve life and tussles with his fellow missionaries, Leigh grew fond of the location that he had first 98[...]the Parramatta Wesleyan Church to Reverend Samuel Leigh and Mrs. Leigh, 1828, copy of original (Parramatta, NSW: Parramatta Mission Archival Collection, n.d.). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]uring the final phase of his Australian ministry, Leigh addressed the Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the We[...]gathering as follows, The Rev. S. Leigh, in the course of u interesting spee[...]honour of his church naming aside, appraisals of Leigh’s time at Parramatta do not reveal an unblemish[...]d evaluations during his time in Sydney’s West, Leigh’s character and work were far from two-dimensional, lackadaisical or dispassionate. Leigh was, in fact, an earnest, if gradually less astut[...]world. These facts also remind those who explore Leigh’s legacy, including his role in establishing 100 Samuel Leigh, “Tenth Anniversary Meeting, the Wesleyan Auxil[...]W,” Sydney Gazette, October 7, 1830, 2. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]is also not undeserved. Failings notwithstanding, Leigh’s Christian conviction and Wesleyan-Arminian et[...]e town. Standing to this day on Macquarie Street, Leigh Memorial Church - named in his honour in 1899 - is a Parramatta landmark and symbolic of Leigh’s achievements and the Mission’s long-ranging civic resonance. Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta (interior), 2019[...]William Davidson pipe organ (1879) Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	1) Architectural sketch, Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta (James Tosh, 1883) 2) Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta, 2019. Leigh Memorial Church, Macquarie Street Parramatta, c. 1910 (eastern facade) Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Samuel Leigh Colloquium Transcripts Collection SAMUEL LEIGH 200th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM[...]\|\|k On the evening of Sunday 23 August, 2015 at Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta, a ‘Heritage Colloq[...]concluding event of Parramatta Mission’s Samuel Leigh 200th Anniversary program. The evening involved the presentation of five papers exploring Leigh’s legacy and matters of church history from var[...]- including those surveying the repercussions of Leigh’s ministry for Parramatta Mission and his broad[...]ation. Two articles, written for our first Samuel Leigh book in 2015 by Inise Foiakau of the Leigh Fijian congregation and Christine Bayliss Kelly,[...], have been included in this collection. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]d place are of course different to that of Samuel Leigh, yet we can learn from him and his time, appropri[...]f their movements - left lasting legacies. Samuel Leigh, the first Wesleyan Methodist missionary to Australia and New Zealand, was no different. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]is important, and always has been. That Samuel Leigh succeeded in his vision that Governor Macquarie s[...]emarkable incidents in the life ofthe Rev. Samuel Leigh, 1853: 90-91) Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]. Our ancestors here set about building on Samuel Leigh’s vision of ‘place’ by building a neo-gothi[...]ill, in the early part of twentieth century, show Leigh Memorial in its elegant beauty with spire standin[...]is where cultivation takes place. While Samuel Leigh did not use that image of a clearing in the woods, it is useful. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Samuel Leigh was inspired, convicted, and driven by this text[...]in God who has created all things. If you like, Leigh was called to be a “clearing in the woods” -[...]urch is not just for us, and it never has been. Leigh had to be wise and ‘political’ (in the broad[...]uarie granting land such as ours in Parramatta. LeighLeigh had not fostered those relationships he would hav[...]ip in New Zealand (Strachan: 217-219). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]rchable riches of Christ,” (Ephesians 3:18-9) - Leigh had a big vision. Samuel Leigh established faith communities in places such as L[...]has been at its best, like in the time of Samuel Leigh, or the 1880s with people like the Byrnes father[...]effect. Our pioneers, like Samuel and Catherine Leigh, Samuel Marsden, Dr John Dunmore Lang, or the Has[...]lexander Strachan concludes are evident in Samuel Leigh. Not all would agree with this list, but they are worth hearing. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	1. Leigh was singularly qualified for the arduous duties a[...]nciples of true religion. (Strachan: 383) 2. Mr. Leigh was a man of earnest and unaffected piety. Mr. Leigh was truly converted to God in early life; and “[...]ude was another distinguishing peculiarity in Mr. Leigh. With him there was no affectation of qualities t[...]l, transparent, and real. (Strachan: 385) 4. Mr. Leigh carried industry and punctuality into all the dut[...]heedlessly. (Strachan: 337) 5. The spirit of Mr. Leigh was truly catholic. (Strachan: 389) Strachan, at the end of his book on Leigh, writes that if the mission to the southern lands[...]re challenging than at any other time. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Strachan also in summing up the life of Samuel Leigh, points to the eschaton, the future, the end of t[...]n Isaac Watts hymn which brought encouragement to Leigh and to many: Jesus[...]sus Shall Reign Where’er the Sun, 1719. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ifetime. We can think about the journey of Samuel Leigh throughout the decades as a Hikoi - bringing into[...]nniversary events in 2015. It is also the Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ges and the list goes on. Little wonder that the Leigh Memorial Congregation in conjunction with the Leigh Fijian Congregation live out hospitality too - or[...]d Faith and Hope. Two hundred years since Samuel Leigh began riding his horse around the Parramatta area[...]ifference - all in the name of Christ. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Will the real Samuel Leigh please stand up? Samuel Leigh and the Beginnings of the Wesleyan mission to New[...]e of a foundational figure, a pioneer like Samuel Leigh, there is the risk of hagiography. Writing in 185[...]emarkable Incidents in the Life of the Rev Samuel Leigh; the sub-title reads, Missionary to the Settlers[...]An Account of the Life and Work of the Rev Samuel Leigh. At the other end of the spectrum there is a ris[...]y, negative edit profiling. In the case of Samuel Leigh that might mean taking the side of his contempora[...]May the Almighty bring good out of evil Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	- and save our souls from hell”. And again, Lawry deemed Leigh to be “of such a curious and eccentric manner t[...]ial lecture, Glen O’Brien has made the case for Leigh being “remembered as a pioneer, but not as a bu[...]et out to explore the troubled relationship which Leigh had with his co-workers on both sides of the Tasman. It was his considered opinion that Leigh (though still a relatively young man) had closer[...]to avoid sectarian conflict. Leigh’s letters of authorization were not recognized[...]friendship and concern of Marsden? In the wake of Leigh’s interview Macquarie determined that in future[...]“the new and rising colony”. True to his word Leigh did not seek to set himself up as a radical disse[...]he course of time the divisions would harden with Leigh, on occasion, on one side with the colonial Angli[...]the other side. 102 Glen O’Brien, “Samuel Leigh in Australia and New Zealand”, An address given[...]n Church, Auckland, 8 August, 2015, p. 1. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	The relationship between Leigh and Lawry should not detain us though it is of in[...]“attractive to the ladies”. It was said that Leigh’s preaching, by way of comparison, was far below the local exhorters in Cornwall. O’Brien notes that Leigh’s seminary education was very limited.103 Lawry[...]ding to J.M.R. Owens “something of a crisis for Leigh”. On 17 January 1821 Samuel Leigh received his instructions at a public ordination[...]ate the dense negro population of the Gambia”. Leigh was given “a considerable quantity of hardware,[...]vice which might prove beneficial to all parties. Leigh was charged to remonstrate against cruelty and to “soften the barbarism of their manners. Leigh was advised that the Methodist intention was “n[...]el recover his 103 O’Brien, pp. 1-2. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]expense of this first visit. Now, on 5 May 1819, Leigh arrived in the Bay of Islands and remained until[...]trachan’s Life paints a more colourful picture. Leigh’s own reports show him as a mediator between th[...]em like a disorganised rabble; it is evident that Leigh was exposed to tattooed human heads for sale; tha[...]chief for his pains. John King also reported that Leigh gave an axe for the body of a little boy, slain f[...]meal way and when they were later half dug up and Leigh intervened, the Maoris accused him of working on the Sabbath. For this second visit LeighLeigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh was in no small measure responsible for this miss[...]f £5000 and could not undertake any new mission. Leigh would not take no for an answer. He went round th[...]among the “savage cannibals” of New Zealand. Leigh’s capacity to arouse great interest in this pro[...]cording to Strachan Hongi stayed for a while with Leigh; he slept on the floor as he did not like beds and Leigh followed suit for the duration Leigh set sail for Sydney on the Brixton on 28 April 18[...]ady of the name of Clewes”. That is Catherine. Leigh was now the “General Superintendent of Missions[...]in the Bay of Islands, 22 January 1822. Initially Leigh had been opposed to the idea of ‘artificers’ accompanying the missionaries but Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Islands and the rest of the party. For 16 months Leigh was effectively a member of the CMS mission; he f[...](who had “gone native”). It is not clear why Leigh did not go and set up his own mission during this[...]the tribe around Mercury Bay? Kendall, no fan of Leigh, reckoned that Leigh nevertheless could have settled elsewhere - as in[...]rning to speak Maori first? Strachan reports that Leigh and his wife wrote prayers and hymns in English w[...]ed into Maori with the assistance of the CMS. Was Leigh a linguist? Lawry reckoned that he and his wife had learned more Maori in two weeks than Leigh had done in six months. On his arrival Turner reckoned that Leigh had not learned in 18 months enough Maori to “s[...]r training in languages. It seems as if Catherine Leigh learnt Maori. Leigh was conscious of the need to understand the peopl[...]ellent way and the True God in who we believe”. Leigh would write about tapu, burial customs, the spiri[...]e the Sabbath. But, Owen concludes that Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	on none of these subjects did Leigh show any more insight than what he had learnt from his CMS colleagues. In July 1822 Leigh and the CMS were visited by Lawry and his wife wh[...]happy at this prospect and the complaints against Leigh whom he believed was responsible for manoeuvring Lawry out of New South Wales. The relationship between Leigh and Lawry is a subject in and of itself. There wa[...]ut it was not long- lived. Strachan records that Leigh made a couple of exploratory expeditions during t[...]growing potatoes for trade. Owen is sceptical of Leigh’s account of the Whangaroa visit which he made[...]angaroa at this time and it is possible the older Leigh was mixing up his visits to Whangaroa later and to Whangarei. For what it’s worth here is Leigh’s account. Leigh was evidently mindful of Whangaroa’s reputation[...]ere that the crew of the Boyd had been massacred. Leigh claimed that he had made “voyages of investigat[...]ut roasting and eating them the next day, Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ering the most discordant and unearthly yells”. Leigh took flight and threw some fish hooks after himse[...]he area for 5 months while acquiring kauri spars. Leigh had been there, as we have seen in his throwing f[...], the value of trade and how they lived. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]n the first Sunday they held a service where both Leigh and Butler preached. They duly set up a shelter o[...]rtable house was being built. The tent leaked and Leigh recalled the “the heavy due” coming through t[...]h goods had been brought. How are we to evaluate Leigh’s role in Whangaroa? Owen believes that it is difficult to assess the part played by Leigh and his wife. Strachan’s life of Leigh ignores White and inflates Leigh’s role. In the Strachan version Leigh was the peacemaker; an industrious resourceful pi[...]tirely true? The contemporary documents show that Leigh’s health was deteriorating. Was he capable of m[...]om Marsden on 7 August which can to set in motion Leigh’s departure. Leigh had informed Marsden of his ill-health and his difficulty of Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]es wished to settle. On his arrival Marsden found Leigh very ill and recommended that he should return to[...]s not genuine. Turner thought the real reason for Leigh’s eventual departure was that he had neither th[...]te confided in him that it would be a blessing if Leigh went, for if he stayed that would only hinder the[...]tor of the Sydney Gazette wrote: “Evidently Mr. Leigh is diseased in mind, for his body appears as stro[...], if ever he was adapted to a missionary life”. Leigh had got caught up again in squabbles with Lawry on his return to Sydney. Howe added: “Mrs. Leigh is an excellent woman”. Will the real Samuel Leigh please stand up? We are faced with two competing[...]observes the need to take care of the criticisms Leigh received. They themselves were subject to critici[...]g men are apt to be too soon angry”. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Marsden has also feared for Leigh’s health and knew how difficult it was to govern young missionaries. Leigh’s doctor did not consider he was shamming. In February 1824 he certified that Leigh was “seriously indisposed with chronic affection of the liver and of the abdominal viscera generally”. Leigh would never return to New Zealand. The Wesleydale[...]kianga on the west coast. One hundred years after Leigh and his party first arrived, the Maori members of[...]by the Reverend Samuel Leigh What God has wrought! Numbe[...]er, c. 1823. Turner was with Samuel and Catherine Leigh at Wesleydale and continued the Wesleyan mission in New Zealand following their departure. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Mrs Inise Foiakau Leigh Fijian congregation As a diasporic community th[...]ttle, ‘dry our feet’ and make our home as the Leigh Fijian congregation at Leigh Memorial Church, Parramatta Mission - we are cons[...]ain things, yet hold on to what we value. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ekeepers’ that shine the light and remind us of Leigh Memorial’s heritage, including the important role of first Methodist missionary to NSW, Samuel Leigh - and his wife Catherine - which is now our herit[...]e so that together, life and witness programs for Leigh Fijian will continue to address the needs of all. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]sure and are attentive to their history. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]7, The Uniting Church in Australia: The Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]f doing mission in the city of Sydney. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]what we assume to be right and wrong. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh Memorial, for example, has had strong links with[...]d London: Harvard University Press, 2004. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Ecclesiology, London, SCM, 1977, p. xiii. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]eatures/your-say/a-downward-slope-for-uca Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	Leigh's Portraits Dr[...]wrote for this year’s anniversary book, Samuel Leigh - Parramatta Mission Pioneer. The article in question, Leigh’s Portraits, is my favourite. It examines the ways in which Leigh was portrayed in art, both in his lifetime and po[...]inated by the way in which figures such as Samuel Leigh were depicted in the era before photography - let[...]ating. Portraiture possesses the ability Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]iderations such as these were at play when Samuel Leigh’s portraits were created and have subsequently[...]The first image of Leigh to receive public[...]established Leigh as a noteworthy person[...]ybe just a hint of vulnerability). In addition to Leigh, Jackson’s impressive catalogue included Method[...]aiture-6c1dd2e7655f 110 John Jackson, Rev. Samuel Leigh, oil on canvas (c. 1820). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]between 1778 and 1969). Jackson’s portrayal of Leigh was typical of his repertoire, and in a style des[...]12 Instead, he intended that his portrayal of Rev Leigh would provide a genuine glimpse of both Leigh the man and Leigh the missionary. Moreover, he hoped that it would[...]t of the Methodist commissions, including that of Leigh’s colleague, Rev Walter Lawry.[...]Alexander Strachan’s biography of Leigh in 18[...]dened Leigh’s eyes, lightened his face, and gave him a[...]‘photoshopped’ Leigh into a more appealing[...]), 355. 112 Ibid. 113 George Stodart, Rev. Samuel Leigh, engraving (c. 1853). Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]Samuel Leigh was an anonymous,[...]Samuel Leigh (illustrated edition,[...]In the frontispiece, Leigh is depicted[...]lustration shown at number ‘III’ is Catherine Leigh, helping to dress Maori infants. It is sub-titled[...]4 Alexander Strachan, The Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Savages and Settlers of Austra[...].edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/portrait/ Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]new point of understanding in relation to Samuel Leigh - a man weighed down by the complexities of his o[...]sionary vision. Regardless of what we glean from Leigh’s portraits however, it is what they don’t te[...]It is testimony to Samuel Leigh’s enigmatic contribution that his portraits sti[...]Frontispieces, biography of Samuel Leigh (illustrated edition), 1870. 117 Richard Brilli[...]e, Alexander Strachan, The Life of the Rev Samuel Leigh (Illustrated Edition), 1870. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ev Dr Manas Ghosh Minister, Leigh Memorial congregation I begin with a confession. I knew nothing about Samuel Leigh until I came to Leigh Memorial Church in July last year. You could say[...]mittee didn’t ask me any questions about Samuel Leigh during my number of interviews with them. Otherwi[...]ave been very embarrassing! But - since I came to Leigh Memorial Church, it became necessary for me to ex[...]lanning for the bicentenary celebration of Samuel Leigh’s arrival in New South Wales. My first port of[...]t book it revealed was The Life of the Rev Samuel Leigh by Alexander Strachan. It was first published by[...]rk of Grace which has a couple chapters on Samuel Leigh. I found our resident historian Liz de Reland’s series of articles on Leigh Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]e to time has shared with me many anecdotes about Leigh. That person is Keith Hamilton. As a matter of fa[...]t the wrong shipment of the furniture that Samuel Leigh received - “furniture for the horse instead of[...]o give you. Tonight, our speakers threw light on Leigh’s life from many different angles. In my reflec[...]mentions some objectives for writing the book on Leigh which are: “To give a comprehensive view of th[...]atives of Australia or Africa or Asia. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]others. But in this long two hundred years since Leigh came to Parramatta we have come to realise, painf[...]My second observation from Strachan’s book on Leigh is “the privations, labours and appalling dange[...]this statement. While I was reading about Samuel Leigh, I remembered another great missionary Dr William[...]to India in 1793, that is, 22 years earlier than Leigh came to Australia. During my theological studies[...]tudy on Carey’s life, and I can share with you, Leigh’s wasn’t much different Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]s and technologies that were unheard of by Samuel Leigh, we are not immune from the “privations, labour[...]to secure the higher objects of our mission. But LeighLeigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]ission, 2018. de Reland, Elizabeth (ed.). Samuel Leigh: Parramatta Mission Pioneer, 1815 2015. Parrama[...]d Fruitgrowers Advocate, July 15, 1905. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]’s Missionary: The Life and Work of Rev. Samuel Leigh 1785-1852, First Methodist missionary to Australia and New Zealand, with a Brief History of Leigh Memorial Methodist Church, Milton, built 1865. Milton: Leigh Memorial Methodist Church, 1986. Keeling, Anne.[...]Some Accounts of the Life and Work ofRev. Samuel Leigh. London: Charles H. Kelly, 1896. Lawry, Walter.[...]Brien, Glen. “Not Radically a Dissenter: Samuel Leigh in the Colony of New South Wales.” (Wesleyan an[...]40-1914. Monash University Press, 2018. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
	[...]able Incidents in the Life of the Reverend Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Settlers and Savages of New Ze[...]Strachan, Alexander. The Life of the Rev. Samuel Leigh, Missionary to the Savages and Settlers ofAustral[...]o a European beholder...’: The Papers of Samuel Leigh.” October 4, 2012. The Burke Library Blog. http[...]re-very- afflicting-to-a-european-beholder-samuel-leigh-papers/. “Where Pioneers Sleep. Tombstone Tale[...]les. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1993. Samuel Leigh: First Wesleyan Missionary to Australia an[...]
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