South Yorkshire Times, August 18th 1933
Rev. G. H. Lester
Wath Circuit’s New Superintendent
The Rev. George Henry Lester, who is to succeed the Rev. H. W. Wade as superintendent minister in the Wath-on-Dearne (Wesleyan) Methodist Circuit, hopes to arrive here on August 31st and says he is looking forward with keen interest to his work in South Yorkshire.
Mr. Lester. who was trained at Handsworth College, Birmingham, gave some of the best years of his life to missionary work in West Africa. He went out from college in 1909 to the Lagos (now Nigeria) district. and had charge of the Ijebu Mission and later also of the Abeokuta Circuit. He returned to England in 1921 and for the last nine years has been stationed in Lincolnshire. in the Sleaford, Bourne, and Market Rasen circuits. Bourne was his first English superintendency and from 1929 to 1932 he was secretary of the Lincoln District. In 1932. for a few weeks, following the retirement of the Rev. Dennis Kemp (a former superintendent of the Wath Circuit), he was chairman of the old Lincoln District, and from the consummation of Methodist union has been secretary of the Lincoln and Grimsby District.
He comes to Wath from Market Rasen. Although a busy man he has always been fond of athletics, particularly of tennis and swimming.