MEMBERS of an Ingrow Parish Church Men’s Institute had set the tone for light-hearted entertainment by forming this Pierrot troupe in 1912.
They were probably encouraged by the Rev William Thompson Elliott, who had been inducted as vicar at Ingrow St John’s that same year, and who was also chaplain to the Keighley branch of the Actors’ Church Union, in which capacity he held special services for the theatrical profession.
Tall, broad-shouldered, humorous and outspoken, the Rev WT Elliott played with the Ingrow Cricket Club and became known, during a subsequent incumbency at Leeds, as “the vicar with the broad smile”.
He was later appointed Canon and Sub-Dean of Liverpool Cathedral and, at the time of his death in 1940, was Canon Residentiary of Westminster.
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