Donald Henry Frere Gee (1891–1966) was a travelling preacher, writer, editor, musician, Chairman of British Assemblies of God (1945–1948), Bible College Principal and significant historian. His writings are the most varied and prolific of any of the early Pentecostals and his final book, Wind and Flame (1967), is the best early account of the movement’s global reach and its affinity with emerging charismatic and ecumenical stirrings.

Gee won prizes at school but left in his mid-teens and never thereafter received any further formal education. He attended Finsb…