Person:Percy Beales (2)

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Percy Stephen Beales
m. 1884
  1. William Harold Beales1886 - 1967
  2. Percy Stephen Beales1887 - 1963
  3. Hugh Lancelot Beales1889 - 1988
m. 1917
Facts and Events
Name Percy Stephen Beales
Gender Male
Birth? 29 Jul 1887 Bingham, Nottinghamshire, England
Christening? 8 Feb 1888 Bingham, Nottinghamshire, EnglandWesleyan Methodist Chapel, Bingham Circuit
Marriage 1917 Gloucestershire, Englandto Rita Alice Rhoda Rabone
Death? 23 Jun 1963 Gloucestershire, England

1891 - With parents at Sedbergh, Yorkshire. Aged 3.

1901 - Pupil at Kingswood School, Bath, Somerset. Aged 13. His brothers William & Hugh were also there.

1926 - Bought The Limes, North Lopham for £900.

1929 - With his wife (Mrs Stephen Beales) attended his mother's funeral.

1930 - Presumed to be the Percy Stephen Beales who designed and commissioned the large double gates and kissing gates in memory of Zaida Beales, and also composed a hymn that was sung at the dedication of the gates.

1933 - Described in the obiturary/funeral report for his father as instrumental in the revival of hand weaving and of village life in North Lopham. Floral tribure from "Percy and Rita".

1963 - Beales, Percy Stephen of Daneway Cottage, Sapperton near Cirencester Gloucestershire, died 23 June 1963. Probate, Gloucester 27 August, to Barclays Bank Ltd, Alice Rhoda Beales, widow, Geoffrey Barnard Beales, schoolmaster, and Robin Tanner, inspector of schools. Effects £6028 18s 5d.

One typescript poem, signed by P S Beales, is held in the collection of papers donated to Exeter University by his brother, Lance (Hugh Lancelot).