Fountain Pen

Fountain Pen
Fountain Pen

1900-1950 / Commemorative / Metal / Metalwork / Ministers, Preachers & Associates / Other
Metal
c.1920-30

This gold fountain pen bears the engraved signature of John Scott Lidgett (1854 –1953) and was used to sign the British Methodist Union documents in 1932.

Lidgett was a British Wesleyan Methodist minister and theologian committed to improving education, in particular in London. He became President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference in 1908-09 and was instrumental in bringing about British Methodist Union in 1932. Lidgett served as first President of the newly-united Methodist Conference in 1932-33.