Rev George Worsley Coleman
Chairman of Blackrod Urban District Council: 1907-10
Born: Water Stratford, Buckinghamshire 10 February 1851
Died: 6 February 1912
Educated: Jesus College, Cambridge
Anglican clergyman.
His first curacy from 1874 to 1876 was at Helidon, Northamptonshire. He was then curate at Adlington from 1877 to 1882 before moving to Great Marsden as Vicar, where he remained until 1893. From 1893 for seven years he was Vicar of St Augustine's, Tonge Moor, Bolton. In 1900 he became Vicar of St Katharine's Church, Blackrod, preaching his first sermon on the first Sunday in Advent in that year.
From then on he was a prominent figure in the life of the village.
Member of the local Education Committee at Wigan.
Vice Chairman of the Council at the time of his death.
He took a very active part in the restoration of the Parish Church, the work being completed in July 1911.
A stained glass window in his memory was unveiled in the Church on 2 May 1914.
His eldest son, the Rev Leonard Coleman was the curate of Beeston Hill, Leeds for seven years.
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