DRON, Charles William, Rev, B.A. (1897-1952)
Assembly memorial minute, 1953
Charles Dron was born on 14th September, 1897, in the Manse of the United Free Church at Sandbank, in Argyllshire, Scotland, where his father, the Rev. C.C. Stewart Dron was the minister. In 1914, Mr. Dron enlisted and served in the First World War with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. After the war he served with the regiment on the Indian Frontier, rising to the rank of Captain.
In 1922, he came to Victoria and settled on the land in the Coleraine district. His fiancee came out from Scotland and they were married in 1923. Together they worked through difficult years. In 1935 he was accepted by the Home Mission Committee as being "specially suited" for the ministry. For three years, he did Home Mission work in South Australia and entered the Theological Hall in 1939, and was transferred to the Whittlesea Home Mission Station.
He accepted an exit appointment, in 1941, to the Charge of Hart-Koolunga, South Australia, where he was ordained and inducted on 27th April, 1942. In 1943 he was clerk of the Presbytery of Belalie. In 1945, he was translated to Prospect, Adelaide; during which pastorate he was Moderator of the South Australian Assembly. He was translated in 1949 to Koroit.
Mr. Dron was highly respected for his strong civic sense. He gave willingly of service to the Base Hospital in Warrnambool, and to the Returned Servicemen’s League. He was active in the Masonic Lodge and won the respect of the Koroit Borough Council by his interest in civic affairs.
He possessed a high sense of Churchmanship and stood for the best in Presbyterian traditions of worship and work. His influence by means of broadcasting and membership of public institutions, spread over a very wide area, and he made many friendships in the two States in which he laboured.
He died suddenly, of a heart seizure, on Wednesday, 19th March, 1952, while on his way to the Warrnambool Hospital.
To Mrs. Dron and his daughter, Margaret, the Assembly tenders sincere sympathy
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