William Sykes (priest)
William Sykes, born Barrow-in-Furness, was first Curate of St John's Church, Tunbrdige Wells; Vicar of Hillsborough and Wadsley Bridge, Sheffield, 1895-1919; Vicar of Audley, Staffordshire, 1919-1928; first President of the Sovereign Grace Union 1913-1930.
He married Anne Jane Dodgson, 1885, who died in 1916; they had five sons and three daughters, including the clergyman William Dodgson-Sykes. He then married Emily Bartlett Knocker, in 1918, who survived him.
