OBITUARY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27401, 14 July 1954, Page 7

OBITUARY

REV. J. TENNENT J The Rev. James Tennent, who was a member of the Christchurch Presby- ? tery for about 36 years, died in Oamaru on Monday. He was 85. Mr Tennent became a minister of < the Presbyterian Church in Cardenden, ; Fife, in 1904, and six years later went to Glasgow to work as a city missioner ■ in the slum area. He came to New Zealand in 1912 in . response to an appeal for men to do church extension work, and settled in Linwood. He was subsequently a minister at New Brighton. Linwood, Shirley-Richmond, St. Albans, and Styx. In 1929 he moved to his first charge outside the Christchurch Presbytery—at Morven, where he remained for six years. , , a Although Mr Tennent retired from the ministry in 1935, he assisted at Hornby until 1939. He began a chaplaincy at the Christchurch Public Hospital, Burwood Hospital, Sunnyside Mental Hospital, and Paparua prison in 1940 and resigned from this work in 1949. During this period he inaugurated weekly church services at the Templeton Farm School. Mr Tennent first became a member of the Christchurch Presbytery about 1912 and remained a member continuously, except for his six years at Morven. At the time of his death he was the oldest member of the presbytery. He is survived by his widow, two daughters (Mrs W. J. Turner and Mrs L. F. Margetts, both of Christchurch), and two sons (Mr W. Tennent, of London, and Mr J. L. Tennent, of Tau- ; ranga).