Basil Wynne Willson
St John Basil Wynne Willson (28 August 1868 – 15 October 1946) was an Anglican bishop in the first half of the 20th century. He was the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1921 to 1937.[1][2]
The maternal grandson of Michael Solomon Alexander, Bishop of Jerusalem,[3] Willson was educated at Cheltenham and St John's College, Cambridge.[4] He was an Assistant Master at The Leys School and Rugby before Headships at Haileybury College and Marlborough.[5] Ordained in 1904, he was appointed Dean of Bristol in 1916,[6] a post he held for five years[7]. The Bishop of Bristol and the Dean were strong supporters of Britain's involvement in the Great War and Willson, although 48, volunteered for the Army Chaplaincy. He was interviewed on 7 February 1917, and he asked to be posted to France or Salonika [8]but bouts of colon pain and shortsightedness meant that he had to serve in England.[9]. He left the army in 1918. He married Alice Lillian Wills in 1919, was Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1921 to 1937 and died in 1946[10]
References
- ^ Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ List of Bishops[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Bishop Basil Wynne-Willson". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2018-07-01.
- ^ "Willson, St John Basil Wynne (WL887SJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Genealogy web-site". Archived from the original on 2008-10-29. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ National Archives
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, OUP 1941
- ^ Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy
- ^ TNA WO374/77407
- ^ Crockfords 1946
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