David H. Tripp papers

Rev. David H. Tripp was born March 4, 1940, in Lambeth, London, England and adopted by the late Roger Tripp and late Alma (Ellis) Tripp. He had lived in Northern Indiana since 1991, coming from England. Rev. Tripp received a BA degree from Cambridge University (Gorville and Caius College), and his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. He taught at Lincoln Theological College, Queen’s College, Birmingham, England, The University of Notre Dame, and The Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Ind. While with the Methodist Church of Great Britain, he was a circuit minister from 1966 to 1988 and a superintendent minister from 1988 to 1991. From 1991 to 2007 he served three churches in the United Methodist North Indiana Conference and, most recently, the Rolling Prairie UMC. He was an Honorary Priest – Vicar of Lincoln Cathedral and a long-time member of Societas Liturgica. He served on the British Methodist Faith and Order Committee; Lincoln Diocesan Liturgical Committee; British Council of Churches, Study Commission on Trinitarian Doctrine, North Indiana Conference UMC Archive Committee. He was the author of Renewal of the Covenant in the Methodist Tradition, published in 1969 in London and editor of Calvin Washington Ruter’s Brief Sketch of his Life and Itinerant Labors, published in 2008 by DePauw University. He wrote portions of many books and authored numerous articles. On July 18, 1988, in Lincoln, England, he married Diane Karay. He has a daughter, Rachel D’Alessandro (Denis Wilkinson) of Lincoln, England and a son, Jonathan Tripp (Justine Hughes) of Cambridge, England. David Tripp died December 16, 2007 in LaPorte, Indiana.