Walter Vivian Moses was born in 1879, the eldest son of Abraham and Rachel Moses, of the Glasgow district, near Newport in Manchester, Jamaica. He was educated at the Bethabara Elementary School, and at the Moravians' Fairfield Training College. After college he was a teacher at the Mount Olivet School.
Bishop Walter Vivian Moses
(1879-1975)
Click on the link below for information on the lecture series named for Bishop Moses
Moses Lectures in Moravian Studies
Handbook of Jamaica, 1900
Moravian Training Colleges
The church has for many years maintained two Training Colleges, one for males at Fairfield, the other for women at Bethlehem. Within recent years these Colleges have received Government aid. The Fairfield College was begun in 1839 under the direction of the late Rev. Mr. Holland, and has been successfully carried on ever since. It has always enjoyed the advantage of an able teaching staff, and the teachers turned out have as a rule been most successful in their profession. The present staff consists of the Rev. Joseph Craig, Director, with Messrs. Weiss, Lewison and Black, as Assistants. There were 29 students in attendance in 1896. The Training College for women was begun at Bethabara in 1861, and for many years was the only institution for the training of women in the island. Owing to various circumstances, it was temporarily removed to Salem in Westmoreland in 1888, but has now been established in new and commodious buildings at Bethlehem, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The College had 24 students in attendance in 1896. The teaching staff consist of the Rev. S. C. Ashton, Director; Mrs. Weiss, Miss Walder and Miss Glanville.
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