A timeline of the rectors for St Mary East Worlington (coloured cream) and St Mary West Worlington (coloured purple). From 1919 onwards the same rector managed both churches (coloured green).
He was born on 5th April 1884 in Bournemouth and his father was a lodging house keeper. His early career was in the army serving with the 7th Dragoon Guards in India, working in the clerical services, until his retirement from the forces in 1935. He was ordained as a deacon 1935 and confirmed as a priest a year later in 1936 and left East Worlington in July 1942 when he returned to his birth town of Bournemouth serving as vicar at Winterbourne Christ Church. He died on 21st Feb 1952 aged 67 and was buried in Vicarsford Cemetery, Forgan, Fife, Scotland.
Wiiliam was born in Cardiff, Wales on 10th August 1888S. In 1910 he was ordained into the Anglican Church at the age of 22, he went to China in 1969 with the Church Commission Society where he stayed until his enforced return to England in 1920 due to ill health. He retired in 1960 to Worthing where he died on 5th April 1976 at the age of 87.