Constance Coltman

Constance Mary Coltman (née Todd; 23 May 1889 – 26 March 1969) was one of the first women ordained to Christian ministry in Britain.

A decade earlier Gertrude von Petzold became minister at Narborough Road Free Christian (Unitarian) church, Leicester, after studying at Manchester College, Oxford.

Her candidacy for the Ministry of Word and Sacraments was tested and accepted by the King's Weigh House congregation in Mayfair London.

The ordination was presided by William E. Orchard (a Presbyterian who later became a Roman Catholic priest) and assisted by Congregationalist ministers.

The two of them ministered in Kilburn 1922-23, Cowley Road, Oxford 1924-32, Wolverton 1932-40, and Haverhill 1940-46, then returning to King's Weigh House where they served until 1949.