Rev Edward Milsom (1851-1932)

      Window dedicated to Rev Edward Milsom at All Saints Church in Roos, Yorkshire      

              
                     St Peter's Church, Helperthorpe                                                             All Saints Church, Roos

Edward Milsom was born on 14 October 1851 at 69 Pulteney Street, Bath and was the first born son of Charles Milsom and Sarah Frances Tulley and brother to Sarah Hannah, Alice and Francis Henry Milsom.    

Edward was educated firstly at Kings School, Bruton in Somerset between February 1865 and March 1869 and thence went on to Trinity College, Cambridge where he received a BA in 1875 and an MA in 1878.   He attended Cuddesdon College just outside Oxford, a theological college established in c1855 by Bishop Wilberforce in the grounds of his palace at Cuddesdon.  Edward became deacon in 1875 and held various curacies over the next six years.

In 1881 he became vicar at St Peter's Church, Helperthorpe, Yorkshire, a position he held for ten years before moving on in 1891 to become Rector at All Saints Church Roos near Hull in East Yorkshire.    In 2015, the Grade I listed All Saints Church received £44,200 in Lottery funding to restore the historic Reiter pipe organ.  The organ was built in Hull in 1881 but has been unplayable for the last 25 years due to damp and woodworm.   

The inscription on the beautiful stained glass window (above) at All Saints Church, Roos is self-explanatory and reads as follows: 

TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AND PIOUS MEMORY OF 
EDWARD MILSOM M.A. PRIEST FOR THIRTY YEARS 
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH 1891-1921 
GIVEN BY HIS PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS 
AND MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY 

The silver jug and goblets above were presented to the Revd. Milsom by  Sir Tatton Sykes. 5th Baronet, on behalf of the parishioners of Helperthorpe and others upon his appointment to the Rectory of Roos in July 1891.  On one side of the goblets is the family motto Honesta Quam Magna and on the other side the family crest. 

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The Revd. Edward Milsom remained in Roos until his retirement some thirty years later in 1921 when he relocated to Tunbridge Wells, Kent and subsequently died on 16 November 1932 at Cranwell House, Rustall.