▶Date of birth:  18 January 1882        Place of birth: Cheltenham

▶Father:  James Batten Winterbotham     Mother: Eliza Hunter McLaren

▶Spouse(s): -     Date(s) of marriage:       Place(s) of marriage:

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican); Property-owner

▶Lifestory: John Brend Winterbotham came from a Pittville family, and was born and died in Cheltenham, where he never held clerical office. He was born in early 1882 in the town, the eldest son of James Batten Winterbotham, and his wife Eliza Hunter (née McLaren); the Winterbotham family had lived in Pittville as solicitors since the 1830s. Winterbotham was brought up at Cranley Lodge, on Wellington Square, in Pittville, and appeared there as a boy at the time of the 1891 and 1901 censuses. He attended Cheltenham College 1895-1900  as a day boy, and matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford, BA 1907 (later MA), before undertaking his theological training at Ordsall Hall, Salford (known then as the Clergy Training School).

He was ordained Deacon (Ripon) in 1908, and Priest in 1908, and was licensed Curate of the parish church, Ilkley, Yorkshire 1908-11. But he retained property in Cheltenham, and in 1909 was listed in the Lloyd George land survey as the owner of Amberley in Clarence Square, another long-standing Winterbotham house. It was passed to him under his father’s will in 1914, and he rented it out for many years, until his death.

He moved in 1911 from Ilkley to become Curate of Emmanuel Church, in Leeds, where he was boarding at the time of the census. In 1914 he was appointed Curate of St Matthew’s Church, West Kensington; in 1917 his address was 154 Sinclair Road, in West Kensington. In 1917 he was accepted as a Chaplain to the Forces, but “his experiences of the war undermined his health, so that he never returned to his clerical duties”.

Winterbotham returned to Cheltenham and in 1921-2 lived at 4 Wellington Square, Pittville, and latterly at the Garden House, West Drive, Pittville, with his sisters Clara and Lilian; he died, unmarried, at the Barnwood Hospital in Gloucester in 1937, at the age of fifty-five. At death his estate was valued at over £23,310.

▶Moved to Pittville from: 1) (born in Pittville); 2) West Kensington       Moved from Pittville to: 1) Oxford; 2) (deceased)

▶Date of death:  11 November 1937      Place of death: Barnwood Hospital, Gloucester

▶Date of burial: 13 November 1937        Place of burial: Cheltenham cemetery

▶Notes:  Cheltenham Chronicle 20 November 1937      ID: 6681

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden