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Sep
2017

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 1 September 1917

On 01, Sep 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Daily Post

Saturday 1 September 1917

REV. J. WRIGHT WILLSON

The death occurred, at Buxton, of the Rev. J. Wright Willson, M.A., vicar of Hockley Heath, at the age of 65. He was ordained by the Bishop of Worcester in 1888, and appointed curate of Immanuel Church, Birmingham. In 1895 he became curate of St. Asaph’s, and three years later he accepted the living of Hockley Heath. The funeral will take place on Monday at Leicester.