FORSYTH, John McDougall, Rev (1881-1959)
Assembly memorial minute, 1959
One of a family well known for generations in the Western District of Victoria, the Rev. John McDougall Forsyth was bom at Cavendish in 1881.
He entered the service of the Church as a Home Missionary in South Australia amd, while thus labouring, he completed the extra-mural course and entered the ordained ministry. After his ordination at Wallaroo, S.A., on August 29th, 1916, he served there till 1919 when he was translated to Clare, and was Moderator of the South Australian Assembly in 1923.
Leaving Clare in 1928, he returned to Victoria and exercised his ministerial office at Creswick and Brunswick, and later became assistant to the late Rev. Dr. R. Wilson Macaulay, at Camberwell. In recent years he played a great part in building Wattle Park to full status as a charge.
He died on April 18th, 1959, having celebrated his golden wedding in August, 1956.
He is survived by his widow and three daughters, Mrs. Eric Jenkins, Mrs. Ian Jeffrey and Miss Helen Forsyth, to whom the sympathy of the Assembly is extended.
Gender
- Male