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Lancashire Pioneers - William Windle Pilkington

Philanthropist

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William Windle Pilkington was not only a brilliant glassmaker but played a prominent part in the religious, political, municipal and philanthropic activities of St Helens and Lancashire.

He was:

  • A member and trustee of the St Helens Congregational Church and chairman of the Congregational Union

  • Co founder of the Ragged School where he taught with his wife on Sunday afternoons

  • Co founder of an infant school providing land in Knowsley Road

  • Founder of the YMCA in St Helens

  • Supporter of St Helens hospital and founder of the St Helens District Nursing Association

  • Town Councillor 1870 - 1890

  • Mayor 1901 - 1902

  • Alderman 1903

  • Made a freeman of the borough in 1905. He donated a statue of Queen Victoria to the town on the same day. This statue still stands outside St Helens town Hall

  • County Magistrate 1869

  • Borough Magistrate 1882

  • Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire 1908

  • Member of the 47th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (later the 5th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment) and was Colonel of the St Helens division 1889 -1902

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