▶Date of birth:   21 January 1893      Place of birth: Hadzor, near Droitwich, Worcestershire

▶Father:  Harold Picton Wyers     Mother:  Maud Mary Davies

▶Spouse(s): Marion Benson    Date(s) of marriage: 4Q 1914      Place(s) of marriage: Aston, Warwickshire

▶Occupation: Schoolmaster; Clergyman

▶Lifestory: After wartime service as a Gunner George Harry Wyers chose to be ordained; he worked as a schoolmaster and clergyman in Oxford before taking a post as Lecturer at St Paul's Theological Training College in Cheltenham. Wyers was born in Hadzor, near Droitwich, in 1893, the second son of Harold Picton Wyers, licensed victualler, of Droitwich, Worcester, and his wife Maud. In 1911, still living at home, he was a Student Teacher at Stourbridge. Staffordshire. He married Marion Benson in 1914, at Aston in Warwickshire.

His continued education and training were interrupted by the First World War. By June 1916, admitted to London University on a war degree which allowed certain exemptions from the full course requirements, he had failed his English and French examinations, and was required to retake them. However, between August 1918 and April 1919, he served as a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Continent.

By this time he seems to have chosen to add a clerical string to his bow, and graduated from Keble College, Oxford with a BA in 1921, MA 1924. He then received his theological training at Cuddesdon Theological College, near Oxford, from 1921 and completed the requirements of his BA degree at the University of London in 1924. He was ordained Deacon in 1921, and Priest (Oxford) in 1922. In 1921 he was licensed Curate of Holy Trinity, Oxford in 1921, before moving on to become Curate of Marston, Oxford in 1923; at the same time he served as an Assistant Master at the Oxford High School for Boys.

He left these posts when he was appointed Chaplain and Lecturer of St Paul’s College, Cheltenham in 1925; he remained in Cheltenham until 1953, living in St Paul’s Training College with his wife (and daughter) until 1938, when they moved to Drummond House, 6 Pittville Crescent, Cheltenham. He became Vice-Principal of the Training College in 1941.

After his work in Cheltenham he became Rector of Bradenham in Buckinghamshire 1953-5, before assuming a curacy at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire 1956-7. When he died in 1975, at the age of eighty-two, he lived at Picton Lodge, Marsham, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, and he was buried at St Botolph’s Church, Bradenham.

▶Moved to Pittville from:   Oxford     Moved from Pittville to: Bradenham, Buckinghamshire

▶Date of death:  19 December 1975      Place of death: Chiltern and Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire Registration District

▶Date of burial:         Place of burial: St Botolph Church, Bradenham, Buckinghamshire

▶Notes:        ID: 11860

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden