Background
Constance Todd grew up in a Presbyterian family who attended the Putney Presbyterian Church.
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Constance Todd grew up in a Presbyterian family who attended the Putney Presbyterian Church.
A decade earlier Gertrude von Petzold became minister at Narborough Road Free Christian (Unitarian) church, Leicester, after studying at Manchester College, Oxford. A generation earlier, in 1880, the Glasgow Universalists ordained Caroline Soule.)
After attending Saint Felix School, Southwold as a boarder she went to read history in Somerville College, Oxford. The principal of the (then) Congregational college, Mansfield College, Oxford, West. B. Selbie, was persuaded that her call was genuine and in 1913 she was accepted as a student there, where she obtained her London Bachelor of Divinity degree.
Her candidacy for the Ministry of Word and Sacraments was tested and accepted by the King"s Weigh House congregation in Mayfair, in 1917.
The two of them ministered in Kilburn 1922-1923, Cowley Road, Oxford 1924-1932, Wolverton 1932-1940, and Haverhill 1940-1946, then returning to King"s Weigh House where they served until 1949, before retiring to Bexhill-on-Sea where Constance died in 1969. She was not a campaigner, but supported younger women who felt called to ministry, and helped found the Fellowship of Women Ministers and the Society for the Ministry of Women.
Both Constance and Claud were convinced pacifists throughout their lives.