Background
Lambeth, William Arnold was born on October 5, 1879 in Thomasville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Frank Simmons and Ella (Arnold) Lambeth.
Lambeth, William Arnold was born on October 5, 1879 in Thomasville, North Carolina, United States. Son of Frank Simmons and Ella (Arnold) Lambeth.
Bachelor of Arts, Trinity College (now Duke U.), 1901. Graduate study Vanderbilt, 1901-1903. Bachelor of Divinity, Yale, 1904.
Master of Arts, Harvard, 1905.
Doctor of Divinity, Emory and Henry College, 1924. Duke, 1941; Doctor of Letters, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida, 1929.
Admitted to ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1905. Pastor Holmes Memorial Church, Salisbury, 1905-1906, Spring Garden Church, Greensboro, 1906-1907, Love’s Church, Walkertown, 1907-1909, West End Church, Winston-Salem, 1909-1913, Main Saint Church, Reidsville, 1913-1916, 1st Church, Salisbury, 1916-1918, Wesley Memorial Church, High Point, 1918-1922, Main Street Church, Gastonia, 1922-1924 (all in North Carolina), Mount Vernon Place Church, Washington, District of Columbia, 1924-1930, Trinity Church, Durham, North Carolina, 1930-1931, Central Church, Asheville, 1931-1933, and 1940-1944, Wesley Memorial Church, High Point, 1933-1936. District superintendent Winston-Salem District, Western North Carolina Annual Conference, 1936-1940.
Member Uniting Conference, Kansas City, 1939.
General Conference, Birmingham, 1938, Atlantic City, 1940. Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference, Asheville, North Carolina, 1940.
Columbia, South Carolina., 1948. President Lake Junaluska Assembly, Incorporated., 1938-1944.
District superintendent, Greensboro District, Western North Carolina Annual Conference, 1944-1949, retired 1949.
Member Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Club: Rotary.
Married Evelyn Elizabeth Walker, October 14, 1913. Children: Frances Walker (Mistress Hal Kearns Reynolds), Elizabeth Walker, William Arnold.