Frank Isitt

Who was Frank Isitt?

Rev Francis Whitmore Isitt was a New Zealand Methodist Minister, who was general secretary of the New Zealand Alliance from 1900 to 1909. He was a brother of the Rev Leonard Isitt.

Rev Frank Isitt entered the ministry from the Sydenham Circuit, London and after a term at Richmond College went to New Zealand in 1871. He was a parish minister for a number of years, but after two breakdowns in health concentrated on temperance work. He stood in the 1902 election as a prohibition candidate for ten seats, and came second in eight. He also stood in the 1905 and 1908 elections.

In February 1874 he married Mary Campbell Purdie in Dunedin; in the house of Dr. Wm Purdie of Upper Kaikorai, who was probably her father.