Reverend Hugh Wanstall, second Vicar of Wollaston

1920s

Hugh Wanstall was born in1877, the son of a clergyman and brought up in Dawley, Shropshire.  He was a student at Keble College, Oxford and took his degree in 1899.  His first position was in Rugby where he taught at Rugby School.  He was a keen sportsman and played rugby, football and cricket at college and for Rugby Town.  When he came to Wollaston in 1913 he supported many sporting activities and appointed another keen sportsman, Joe Pearson, as headmaster of the Boys’ School.  He never married and his widowed mother lived with him at Wollaston where she filled the role that many clergymen’s wives held.  She ran the Women’s Bible Class for 13 years and the Mothers’ Union.
Hugh worked with the nonconformist churches in the area supporting them in fund raising efforts and organised outings for the choir and Sunday School pupils.

photo credit: Church archives.

supplied by: Janet Byard-Jones

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