Frank Isitt

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Rev Francis Whitmore (Frank) Isitt (1843–1916) was a New Zealand Methodist Minister, who was general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance (for prohibition) from 1900 to 1909. He was a brother of the Rev Leonard Isitt.

Rev Frank Isitt entered the ministry from the Sydenham Circuit, London and after a term at Richmond College went to New Zealand in 1871. He was a parish minister for a number of years, but after two breakdowns in health concentrated on temperance work. He stood in the 1902 election as a prohibition candidate for ten seats, and came second in eight. He also stood in the 1905 and 1908 elections.

In February 1874 he married Mary Campbell Purdie (Spinster, 22 years) in Dunedin; in the house of Dr. Wm Purdie of Upper Kaikorai, who was probably her father.

References

Photo of Rev Frank Isitt
The History of Methodism in New Zealand by W. Morley (1900) (page 418)

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Name	Isitt, Frank
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Short description	New Zealand activist
Date of birth	1843
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Date of death	1916
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