page_title: Port Adelaide Uniting Church
section_title: Historical figures
hierarchical_section_title: Port Adelaide Uniting Church / Historical figures
caption_attribution_description: Rev. Joseph Coles Kirby, minister of the Congregational Church of Port Adelaide from 1880.
context_page_description: The Port Adelaide Uniting Church is located in Port Adelaide, South Australia. It is an active church, with worship and prayer each week.
context_section_description: Many of the prominent citizens of the Port were associated with the church and the walls of the church are covered with memorial plaques that give a commentary on the life of the church itself.
  The first minister of the church was Rev. Matthew Hodge who served from 1849 until his death from typhoid fever in 1877. Rev. Michael Dick was the next minister, serving the next three years until he died of consumption.
  The third and most famous minister at the church was Rev. J.C. Kirby who served from 1880 to 1908. Kirby is best remembered for his activities in the temperance movement where he shut down one third of the Port Adelaide hotels but was also an outstanding teacher and public figure whose achievements include setting up the Young Christians' Union, the Young Men's Christian Society and supporting the Women's Suffrage Movement.
caption: Joseph Coles Kirby ~1890 when he was the minister for the church.
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