and journalist Owen Spencer-Thomas. In his last years, Soper was disabled by severe arthritis and had to use a wheelchair, but he did not allow this to stop him preaching and making public appearances. He died on 22 December 1998, aged 95. From 2005, his old school, now called Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College, has a house dedicated to him – the only one to not be named after a headmaster or headmistress. See also List of peace activists References Further reading Alan Brooks, West End Methodism: The Story of Hinde Street. London: Northway Publications, 2010. Martin Wellings, "Renewal, Reunion, and Revival: Three British Methodist Approaches to “Serving the Present Age” in the 1950s." Methodist History (2014) 53#1 pp. 21–39 online "War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Education of Robert McNamara, The; Interview with Donald Soper" , 1986, Open Vault, 27 October 1986. Retrieved 26 July 2021. Soper, D., Calling for Action: An Autobiographical Enquiry, published 1 March 1996 External links BBC News obituary 1903 births 1998 deaths People from Wandsworth Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Labour Party (UK) life peers Members of the Greater London Council Members of London County Council English Methodist ministers 20th-century Methodist ministers Ordained peers Presidents of the Methodist Conference Alumni of the London School of Economics English Christian socialists English Christian pacifists Methodist socialists Alumni of Wesley House Methodist pacifists Life peers created by Elizabeth II English republicans