Charles Parkin

PARKIN, Charles. b. Felling on Tyne, England, 25 December 1884; d. Portland, Maine, 3 March 1981. Charles Parkin studied at Oxford University and served in the British Army during World War I. Following the War, he was secretary of the British Poetry Society. In 1922, Parkin moved to the United States and was ordained a minister in the Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. From 1950 to 1952, Parkin was the superintendent of the Portland District of the Maine Conference, and then from 1952 to 1964, he served as director of the Advance Department, Division of National Missions in Philadelphia. Archives indicate that he gave the lecture, ‘Heritage and Horizons in Home Missions’...