Herbert Kelly

Herbert Hamilton Kelly SSM (1860–1950) was a priest of the Church of England and the founder of the Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM).

After army training Kelly studied theology and was ordained in 1884. While training people for missionary service in Korea he founded, in London in 1893, an Anglican religious order, the Society of the Sacred Mission, which moved to Kelham Hall, Nottinghamshire, in 1903. He was succeeded as director of the Society by Fr David Jenks in 1910. Kelly later taught theology in Japan.^[1]

Kelly's interest in the ecumenical movement involved him in the Student Christian Movement. As a theologian he was influenced by Frederick Denison Maurice.

Works

• An Idea In the Working: An Account of the Society of the Sacred Mission, its History and Aims; Mowbray, 1908
• A History of the Church of Christ; Longmans, Green, 1901
• The Church and Religious Unity; Longmans, Green, 1913
• The Gospel of God; 1928
• Catholicity; Student Christian Movement Press, 1932
• No Pious Person: Autobiographical Recollections By Herbert Kell', (Herbert Hamilton Kelly, George Every), The Faith Press, 1960

Source materials

• Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury
• Heroes of the Faith: Herbert Kelly 1860-1950, The Church Observer, Easter 2006
• Notes on the Dedicated Life. Herbert Kelly by Michael Maasdorp SSM

References