![]() ![]() He married Sylvia Wyse West in the church of Holy Trinity, Northwood, Hillingdon, on 5 June 1926. He decided however, not to go into the church, and after serving in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in the First World War where he finished up as a Lieutenant, obtained a post at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School in about 1925. Studying History and English at Cambridge, he went on to be ordained after theological training in Ely, where he was living when the 1911 census took place. His father was obviously keen that Hugh follow in his footsteps and had his son received into the Company of Drapers on 17 April 1905. He went to boarding school in Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He had an older sister, named Linda Frances.Īt the age of seven, in the 1891 census, he was living with his family in Willesden, Middlesex. He was baptised on at All Souls, Hampstead. Hugh was born in Hampstead, London, England, on 20 March 1884, the son of a London draper, and member of the Company of Drapers, Charles Chesterman and his wife, Frances Elisabeth née Vlieland. Hugh Chesterman was born in Middlesex, England. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |