Charles Pettman

Charles Pettman, the son of Richard Pettman and Mary Wells was born in Whitstable on 14 August 1851 i. Brought up as a Baptist, he became a Methodist local preacher while in business in Folkestone. He attended the Richmond Theological College from 1873 to 1876, ii where after, ordained, he went to South Africa. There he became the first minister of any denomination to serve in East London. He laid the foundation stone of the Central Methodist Church in East …