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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.
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A member and trustee of the St Helens Congregational Church and chairman of the Congregational Union
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Co founder of the Ragged School where he taught with his wife on Sunday afternoons
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Co founder of an infant school providing land in Knowsley Road
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Founder of the YMCA in St Helens
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Supporter of St Helens hospital and founder of the St Helens District Nursing Association
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Town Councillor 1870 - 1890
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Mayor 1901 - 1902
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Alderman 1903
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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
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County Magistrate 1869
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Borough Magistrate 1882
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Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire 1908
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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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