Donald Soper

The Lord Soper
Portrait by Walter Bird, 1965
Member of the House of Lords
In office
May 1965 – December 1998
Councillor of the Greater London Council
In office
April 1964 – May 1965
President of the Methodist Conference
In office
June 1953 – June 1954
Vice PresidentLeslie Ward Kay
Preceded byColin Augustus Roberts
Succeeded byWilliam Russel Shearer
Personal details
Born
Donald Oliver Soper

(1903-01-31)31 January 1903
Wandsworth, London, United Kingdom
Died22 December 1998(1998-12-22) (aged 95)
London, United Kingdom
Political partyLabour
SpouseMarie Dean
Children4
Alma mater
OccupationMinister, councillor

Donald Oliver Soper, Baron Soper (31 January 1903 – 22 December 1998) was a British Methodist minister, socialist and pacifist. He served as President of the Methodist Conference in 1953–54. After May 1965 he was a peer in the House of Lords.

Historian Martin Wellings states:

His combination of modernist theology, high sacramentalism, and Socialist politics, expressed with insouciant wit and unapologetic élan, thrilled audiences, delighted admirers, and reduced opponents to apoplectic fury.[1]

  1. ^ Martin Wellings, "Renewal, Reunion, and Revival: Three British Methodist Approaches to “Serving the Present Age” in the 1950s." Methodist History (2014) 53#1 pp. 21-39 online Archived 2016-10-03 at the Wayback Machine