Rev N.L. [Bertie] Lycett 1901 – 1914

When Mr Lycett was appointed the parish was receiving a grant from the Diocese. By October 1911, things had changed and the Diocesan Finance Board expressed their gratification on receiving a letter from the parish expressing their willingness to forego the annual grant of £25!

The Rector's transport in those days was a bicycle and one parishioner remembered Mr Lycett riding home with a leg of mutton attached to his saddle bag and wondered if this was a new way of caring for his sheep!

The parish was already expanding and the work increasing. The Diocesan newsletter, The Kingdom, noted that "the extended district was probably too much for Mr Lycett unaided." In 1912 he returned for a while to England to recover from an illness.

When he resigned, the Bishop wrote, in The Kingdom, "he will be greatly missed in the northern suburbs where he has greatly reduced the debt on St Luke's Church, Orchards, as well as having built the first part of St Martin's in the Veld."