Reverend N K Pugsley

A portrait of "The Reverend N K Pugsley" was painted by Charles Allen Du Val and exhibited in 1858. Its present whereabouts is unknown.

He was the Independent Minister at Stockport and Heaton Norris (1).

Although not a Methodist, in 1841 he attended a meeting in Manchester of ministers of all denominations to lobby the Methodist Conference (held that year in Manchester) and others for the repeal of the Corn Laws. That meeting of ministers was attacked in the press by both religious and secular institutions, but it was the start of the campaign to repeal the Corn Laws, eventually successful in 1846. Charles Allen Du Val was also very active in that campaign, and painted the portraits of many of the members of the Anti-Corn Law League.

References

(1) A detailed description of his personality and preaching skill is given in Lancashire Authors and Orators by J Evans (1850) page 213.