It was founded by John Kensit in 1889, to protest against the influence of Roman Catholicism within the Church of England and the nation.
To train the "Wickliffe Preachers", it established the Kensit Memorial Bible College in Finchley in 1905; this opened in 1908.
The current chairman of PTS is the Reverend Dominic Stockford, Pastor of Christ Church, Teddington.
The Society's current vice-chairman is Rev Edward Malcolm, pastor at St Mary's Church, Castle Street, Reading.
One noted member of PTS was the Rev Robert Anderson Jardine, who, in 1937, conducted the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield.