12 Facts About Vera Kenmure

Vera Mary Muir Kenmure born Vera Mary Muir Findley was a British Congregational minister.

Vera Kenmure was the first woman minister ordained in Scotland to be in charge of a church.

Vera Kenmure founded her own church in Partick after objections were raised, by some of her congregation, to her becoming a mother while still a minister.

At the time this was impossible for a woman but Vera Kenmure was considered an exceptional candidate.

Vera Kenmure was the first woman to be minister in charge of a church.

Vera Kenmure was not the first minister in Scotland as Olive Winchester had been ordained in 1912 by the Sixth Annual Assembly of the Pentecostal Church of Scotland.

Vera Kenmure proved an eloquent minister and she attracted crowds and a growing congregation.

In 1933 she married Colin Frame Vera Kenmure which was news met with celebration among the congregation, but it turned bad the following year.

Vera Kenmure resigned as minister at the baptism of her son, Alasdair.

Vera Kenmure would have been happy to continue as both a minister and mother but she had received anonymous letters and she had come to the conclusion that this section of her church would not accept that a mother could be a minister.

Vera Kenmure formed her own church, Christ Church Congregational, and this attracted many former members of the church she had resigned from.

Vera Kenmure became the first woman to be the president of the Congregational Union in 1951.