Background
Aubrey was the son of Edwin Aubrey, a Baptist minister, in the Rhondda.
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Aubrey was the son of Edwin Aubrey, a Baptist minister, in the Rhondda.
He was asked by his son to write an account of his life but only three sentences were ever completed: "Your father was born in a public house and I have no need to apologise for lieutenant
Between 1936 and 1938 he was Moderator of the Federal Council of Free Churches and presented the Loyal Address on behalf of the Free Churches to Her Majesty King George VI. Foreign one thing it wasn"t my fault. Foreign another, it was a very good sin."
Aubrey was educated at Taunton School, followed by Cardiff Baptist College and then as a Scholar at Mansfield College Oxford. His first ministry was as assistant minister at Victoria Road Baptist Church Leicester prior to Street Andrews Street Baptist Church Cambridge where he resided for twelve years.
From Cambridge he was called to the post of General Secretary of the Baptist Union in 1925.
Prior to the Second World War he led a campaign to raise £1m for the "Church Extension Scheme." During the war he was also Chairman of the United Navy, Army and Air Force Board of Chaplains, in which capacity he made a long visit to the Mediterranean theatre of war. In 1947 Aubrey was invited to join the Royal Commission on the Press.
After war ended he was a member of the first church delegation to visit Germany in 1946 and became Chairman of the Committee of Churches for Christian Reconstruction of Europe.
