User:Cloptonson

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About the User

Born: 20 June 1959, Shropshire, England. Gender: Male. Nationality: British, English. First Language: English. Other Language with largest vocabulary - German (mainly through Anglo-German church contacts). Educated: Mary Webb School, Pontesbury, Shropshire; Shrewsbury College of Arts & Technology. Occupation; Civil servant, Ministry of Defence.

Inspiration for User name

An amalgam of the names of Clopton Lloyd-Jones and Edwin Alderson, men who both lived in my home village at different times and had been the subject of local historical research by the User.

Interests away from Wikipedia.

Local historical research, writing articles (usually local history), composing poems, sightseeing (particularly churches, cathedrals, historic houses, museums, cemeteries), local Anglican parish church, bass singer.

Awards

• Claims the Service Award and Ribbon of Registered Editor, for having (at close of 4 February 2012) done 9 edits of 4 pages on first day of service.

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• Holds Editor's Barn Star (June 2012) from Maryana (WMF) for milestone 1,000 edits of English language articles, citation mainly for improving and expanding biographies of British historical figures.

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• Claims the Service Award and Level 3 Ribbon of Journeyman Editor having (as at 31 October 2012) done at least 3,000 edits at 9 months' service.

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• Claims the Service Award and Level 3 Ribbon of Yeoman Editor having (as at 30 April 2013) done at least 5,000 edits at 15 months' service.

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• Claims the Service Award of Experienced Editor having (as at 30 September 2013) done at least 6,000 edits at 18 months' service.

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• Claims the Service Award of Veteran Editor or Tutnum, having (as at 28 February 2014) done at least 8,000 edits at 2 years' service.

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• Awarded The Working Man's Barnstar (November 2020) by Lettler for work to improve List of footballers killed during World War II.

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• Awarded The Special Barnstar (July 2021) by Visnelma.

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• Received into the Wikipedia Ten Year Society on 7 February 2024.

User's Top Ten Most Edited Pages

(As at 16 April 2023)

Main 1.Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom 2.List of footballers killed during World War II 3.Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 4.United Kingdom general election records 5.List of crematoria in England 6.List of friendly fire incidents 7.Earl Shilton 8.Golders Green Crematorium 9.Shrewsbury 10.United Kingdom by-election records

Talk 1.Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom 2.Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 3.Shrewsbury 4.List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars 5.Eddy de Neve 6.John Westwood (footballer) 7.Honours of Winston Churchill 8.Percy Toplis 9. Shrewsbury School 10.United Kingdom general election records

Wikipedia Topics Treated

Biographical - primarily people with Shropshire links (not just Shropshire-born). Chiefly military, sporting and political figures, British peers. I bring to the editing of these my experience (begun at secondary school) and interest in local historical research primarily of my native Shropshire, and of bordering counties: Herefordshire, Cheshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire in England, and Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire and Radnorshire in Wales.

In August 2013 I began making additions to the lists of Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom and in 2014 began additions on Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, and in 2015 United Kingdom general election records and United Kingdom by-election records. I have also begun in December 2014 editing articles on Biblical characters.

NB - The user declares he is unrelated to any subjects of Wikipedia biographies, so he is independent of vested family interest.

Historical - articles mainly military history (notably both World Wars), local history of places, British political history.

Geographical - primarily pages on places in Shropshire and bordering counties. Helped by researching, and experience of visiting, and staying in them. Places further afield may also get my treatment if they have been explored by me or they have figured much in my research. I am also apt to add (where justly due) to lists of those buried at featured cemeteries.

In September 2015 I incorporated in several articles on modern UK parliamentary constituencies details of former borough constituencies, especially the 'rotten boroughs', that lay within their current boundaries.

In August 2012 I begun populating pages (or page sections) on British and overseas cemeteries and churches with details of CWGC-registered war graves and special memorials, or amending and augmenting where such details have already been input. Beginning with Golders Green Crematorium, at least 400 cemeteries, churchyards and crematoria have been treated, as well as the CWGC's Memorials to the Missing such as Menin Gate and Thiepval Memorial. I have also added details of Victoria Cross recipients buried, cremated or commemorated at those places. Within England I have added war grave details to articled cemeteries and churches in Shropshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somerset, Cheshire, Birmingham, Merseyside, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Yorkshire, Essex, Sussex, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex. I have treated articles on cemeteries outside the UK in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hong Kong, India, the Irish Republic, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay and the United States. I was further spurred by the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and the 75th anniversary of that of World War II in 2014.

For same reason, I also begun (June 2014) adding cited details of war memorials to articles on Shropshire churches or villages.

Films/TV - bringing to notice anachronisms or departures from history.

Wikipedia Experience

I began reading Wikipedia frequently in about 2007, having first consulted it at work colleague's request for lyrics of a Tom Jones song (unsuccessfully). I have since used them as reference - among many sources - for my detailed historical researches, while recognising inaccuracies seen on some existing pages.

User Since: 4 February 2012, after acquiring laptop for home use.

My editorial experience of Wikipedia is in amending or augmenting text of English language pages - usually about places and people - with citations from reference books, periodicals and online sources, and creating links to other articles where that has been omitted.

I do not attempt changes to foreign language pages but I intervened once, in a Polish language page, on General Roman Gorecki, just to make clear his grave is at Shropshire's Whitchurch.

Also contribute to Talk Pages of articles - usually to inform on major changes to be made; question unhelpful or confusing statements in existing text; draw attention to major inaccuracies, apparent irrelevancies in text and illustrations (eg portraits that look inconsistent with era and age of article subject), and points possibly deserving clarification or checks by other users.

Also make opportune corrections to improve spelling where applicable, rephrase sentences where desirable to read more clearly without harming presented information, or chronologically rearrange text.

I have also lifted information between articles, generally from those more detailed to those less detailed that associate with the more detailed's topic, eg in January 2015 I have been lifting details from the London Necropolis Company and the London Necropolis Railway to augment the article on Brookwood Cemetery (which the company built and originally owned).

What I Like About Editing Wikipedia

• The satisfaction of leaving pages more accurate, more interesting, and sometimes of interest to more communities, than when I found them.

• Playing a part in tidying the information superhighway, removing the odd vandalism encountered (see A Gallery of Rogues, below).

• Improving the visibility of a page topic, through added links, to wider surfing audiences - to other local communities, other areas of one's country, even other countries, other organisations (eg regiments, schools, sports clubs).

• Contributing to more accurate and detailed understanding of a historical biographical subject eg birthplace details, marriages or relatives with articles in own right, details of death causes, death and burial/cremation places, places where they had lived or worked not previously given in pages.

• Pointing out (from viewing experience) anachronisms or historical inaccuracies on films/TV treating real people and events. It seems sometimes costume dramas won't let the truth get in the way of their 'good story'. I am not trying to spoil viewers' fun but make the departures less misleading to those trying to understand history.

• Sharing my discoveries in history for public consumption more easily than would be the case with traditional publishing channels.

A Gallery of Rogues

Some scurrilous or vandalistic details I have deleted (or caused deleted by those who could confirm they were not genuine) from pages, see articles' respective Talk pages for fuller stories:

Charlton Kings - from list of local churches:

St Chuckus Norris Church of Kung-Fu

Chetton - section Population:

Chetton is also notably the home of Oakley mills-keeling

Church Aston - section Notable Residents:

Jack Blake - Party Animal

Condover - section Sports - about Condover Football Club:

managed by Tom Hanchers dodgy hairline to go with his teams

Ellesmere College - section Notable Old Ellesmerians:

*Jez Sykes - Worst Player at Winchester Club
*Tom Kinsey (Erich Gustav Katz) - Painter
*Bosco de Santiago - footballer

George Emmerson - at end of section Career

Don Quixote

Grove School, Market Drayton -

Previously a Special Needs school admired by Cristiano Ronaldo, Deji Olatunji, Darren Watkins and Olajide Olatunji, in December 1941 Grove School converted to Football Academy Club status. The school is now sponsored by Manchester United.

Harmer Hill - about the village

It ceased to exist at midnight on 31st December 1999. Extensive searches have taken place but no trace has been found. A small vigil takes place on the last Sunday of every month in Preston Gubbals to commemorate the disappearance.

The name Harmer comes from the two words "Artic log (disambiguation)" and [Dream topping]],..

Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk - about the Duke, a lifelong Roman Catholic:

He was also known to be one of the only Muslim Duke at the time in England, alongside the Duke of Surrey.

History of Middlewich - summary about the town:

In ancient times Middlewich had a burial ground dating back to the Saxon times located close to the big lock in where there are many haunted beings there is regularly a group of Mormons who do visuals in the local area to ward of the demons.

Meole Brace School - from list of Notable former pupils:

*John F. Kennedy, Former Meole Brace Basketballer
*Francine McGarrity, less than 5 Instagram followers

Montgomery, Powys - section The Old County Gaol:

The warden of the Gaol was, for over 62 years, Micky Dripp. He pioneered a new inmate reconditioning scheme in the 1960’s which went on to form the basis of the Icelandic prison system as it exists today. Dripp was also prominent in local government, a scene in which he used corruption to obtain the role of governor of Montgomeryshire. Twenty-seven adulterers, an issue about which Dripp was unusually passionate, were put to death in 1981 before he was ousted from his position of power. 2007 saw a Dripp comeback to rival that of the Taliban in 2021 and managed to get elected to police chief of Welshpool. Unfortunately, Dripp had no knowledge of the town and its local culture and his attempts to mediate antagonistic dispute between the local Polish and Burmese communities were broadly unsuccessful. Indeed, 724 residents were crushed to death in the ‘Umbrella Crush’ of 2009, in an incident that was entirely blamed of Dripp’s mishandling of the situation.

Morda - section History:

Lordship
In 2007 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II Commissioned the Lordship of Morda to The Right Honorable Lord Joel of 
Morda.

However this got reinstated with more text but still uncited and ahistorical:

The Lordship of Morda
In 2007 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II Commissioned the Lordship of Morda to The Right Honorable Lord Joel of Morda. Lord Joel has always been admired by his subjects, they often speak about his benevlot acts of generosity and his good looks, which makes him one of the most sought after bachelors in North Shropshire.

Myddle - section Notable people:

Steve Blenkinsop, England international in cricket, tennis, football, and rugby. Also known to accompany Noddy in his car.

Oswestry - from Toponym section:

Oswestry is also the name given to the place where an Owl makes its nest.

Pimhill - about area:

Pimhill is also the home of renowned trail runner, facemelting shredder and cake maestro Rossatron.

Shrewsbury Town F.C. - section Managerial history, fictitious entry:

* Sir Trevor Brian Evans 1886–1905.
** Former olympian and local man, who took over the side from the "Castle Blues" and was the first manager of the club when they became Shrewsbury Town

Stapleton, Shropshire - section Notable people:

Lord J.A. Dale - Educator and athlete

Swynnerton - section Key moments in history:

 The Swynnerton Stout and Fitzherbert Worst, local ales have been awarded the global taste of disgust award every year from 3648 BC.

Upton Magna - about village:

Upton Magna is home to the notorious gang 'ST. Lucia Elite youth', established in 2008.

Welshpool - section Nobable People - Sport

*  Rob Cookson  , Excellent five a side footballer, and out like a shot at 5.58pm each Tuesday

Yockleton - section Notable People:

Grand Dame Alison Wade (1972-) local pedigree farmer, in 1972 fell out of the sky as an angel, a self-described Liberal Conservative, went on to rule the world, previously serving as a Prime Minister for the Principality of YokelLand between 1992-1999. Famous for when born able to sing Lily the Pink 10 times a day accompanied in E-Minor by her two pet unicorns along with a red squirrel joining on bass guitar.

Some Sources Used in Research for Editing

Books:

Biographical Reference, National Interest:

• The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), Oxford University Press.
• Who Was Who, A & C Black. (Deceased subjects of Who's Who (published annually), covering back to 1897.)
• Kelly's Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes (defunct), Kelly's Directories Ltd.
• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, Burke's Peerage Ltd.
• J.A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II 1752-1900 (1940-54), Cambridge University Press.
• Crockford's Clerical Directory, (published annually), Church House Publishing.
• G.E. Cokayne (founder), The Complete Peerage, St Catherine's Press, London.
• Keith Warsop, The Early FA Cup Finals and the Southern Amateurs - A Who's Who and Match Facts, (2004), Tony Brown Soccerdata.

Biographical and Historical, Shropshire Interest:

• Charles H. Mate (editor), Shropshire - Historical, Descriptive, Biographical - Part II, Biographical (1907), Mate.
• E.W. Gladstone, The Shropshire Yeomanry, 1790-1945, The Story of a Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (1953), The Whitethorn Press.
• Margaret Keeling-Roberts, In Retrospect, A Short History of the Royal Salop Infirmary (1981), North Shropshire Printing Company Ltd.
• Barrie Trinder, A History of Shropshire (1983), Phillimore.
• Rowland Ryder, Oliver Leese (1987), Hamish Hamilton.
• Gordon Dickins, An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire (1987), Shropshire Libraries.
• Tony Percival, Shropshire Cricketers 1844-1998 (1999), A.C.S. Publications.
• Peter Francis, A Matter of Life and Death, the Secrets of Shrewsbury Cemetery (2006), Logaston Press.
• Peter Francis, Shropshire War Memorials, Sites of Remembrance (2013), YouCaxton Publications.
• Catherine Beale, Born out of Wenlock, William Penny Brookes and the British origins of the modern Olympics (2011), DB Publishing.
• Mary de Saulles, The Story of Shrewsbury (2012), Logaston Press.

Newspapers:

• Shrewsbury Chronicle.
• Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal (defunct 1890).
• Wellington Journal and Shrewsbury News (defunct 1964).
• Shropshire Star.

Journals:

• The Shropshire Magazine
• Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society (formerly Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society).

Online Resources:

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty Records (Debt of Honour Register) for those who were British Commonwealth military casualties 1914-21 and military and civilian war casualties 1939-47, and Cemetery Reports.

• History of Parliament for MPs' biographies between 14th-19th centuries.

Some Article Achievements

Biographical

• Thomas Ashton (schoolmaster) (died 1578)- first Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, examined disputed identification.
• Thomas Adams (publisher) - added details of parentage and native place in Shropshire.
• Inigo Jones (architect) - added details of service as an MP (1621-22).
• Reported to Oxford Dictionary of National Biography a questionable birth date (1582) given for Humphrey Edwards (regicide of Charles I), originally noticed in his Wikipedia article in November 2013.
• John Suckling (poet) - gave corrected details of service as MP and examined death circumstances.
• Richard Baxter (Puritan theologian) - added upbringing in Eaton Constantine, Shropshire.
• Constantine Overton (English Quaker) - extended known life span to circa 1700 when he emigrated to Pennsylvania.
• Peter Legh - 17th century MP and duel victim - further details of early life and likely birth dates.
• Robert Foulkes - 17th century clergyman and murderer - details of parentage, birth in Wales, early education at Shrewsbury, marriage.
• Francis Lovelace (second English Governor of New York) - added details of career pre-New York and clarified on life after return.
• Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine - added details of service in two navies, death in Shropshire and burial in Welshpool.
• Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John, politician - details of education, marriages and murder case of which pardoned.
• George Clarke (1661-1736), architect - added details of his parliamentary service, ultimately MP for Oxford University.
• Dr Henry Sacheverell, politically controversial High Church preacher - parish held in Shropshire between his trial and end of suspension from preaching.
• Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell (c1680-1745) - added details of military and parliamentary service, death cause.
• Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet, politician and founder of Downing College, Cambridge - details of upbringing in Shropshire.
• John Boydell - engraver and Lord Mayor of London - clarified located birthplace of Dorrington as that near Market Drayton, not Shrewsbury.
• Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis - added military service details, baptismal details, death and burial places.
• Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive ('Clive of India') - mentioned seats as MP (notably for Shrewsbury), baptisms of two children at Condover, Shropshire, and more detailed examination of death circumstances.
• Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton - 18th century Prime Minister - added section on religious interests (prominent Unitarian)
• Captain William Owen (1737-1778) - mentioned time as Mayor of Shrewsbury.
• Jenison Shafto, 18th century MP, racehorse owner and gambler - added details of military service, racehorses, gambling anecdotes, marriage and death cause.
• Andrew Plimer (miniature portrait painter) - clarified Shropshire origins.
• Isaac Hawkins Browne (coalowner) - added details of publications.
• Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland - added achievements in art and raising regiments.
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - added stay in Shrewsbury winter of 1797-98 as Unitarian preacher, making probationary sermon, meeting William Hazlitt, granted annuity to give up preaching.
• William Hazlitt, essayist - first publication (letter to Shrewsbury Chronicle in 1791).
• Robert Southey, Poet Laureate - added period as (non-sitting) Tory MP.
• Mary Anne Talbot (1778-1808), female soldier/sailor - upbringing and putative burial place in Shropshire.
• George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland - added positions as Member of Parliament (3 seats), details on travels, cultural interests and public offices.
• Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, grandson of 'Clive of India' - added service in yeomanry regiments, book collecting, business (canal) interests.
• Robert Clive (1789-1854), politician, brother of 2nd Earl of Powis - added service in yeomanry and militia regiments, railway directorships, circumstances of death.
• John Mytton (eccentric) - added service in yeomanry regiments and stand for Parliament for Shropshire county (withdrawn during polling).
• William Henry Watson, judge and MP - added further detail on circumstances of death and burial at Welshpool, obtained from local newspaper reports.
• John Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester - added marriage (to widow of last Viscount Melbourne), family and social associations with Disraeli.
• George Weld-Forester, 3rd Baron Forester - details of military career (rose to General).
• Orlando Weld-Forester, 4th Baron Forester - details of education and overall clergy career.
• Frederick Mullins, later De Moleyns - Irish MP, details of science interests, legal problems and death in prison.
• Samuel Pountney Smith (1812-1883), architect - established birth date, added details of involvements in Shrewsbury local politics, death and burial places.
• Sir Smith Child, 1st Baronet and Brigadier-General Sir Smith Child, 2nd Baronet - corrected stated kinship from father-son to grandfather-grandson, with genealogical illustration in former's article, and enhanced details of latter's military and Royal Household careers and last residence and burial place (in Shropshire).
• William Orme Foster and his son William Henry Foster, MPs, industrialist/landowners.
• Colonel Edward Corbett (MP) - revealed namesake son contested for parliament against Charles Bradlaugh.
• Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (British Prime Minister) - added fact he was elected and held seat as MP for Shrewsbury 1841-47.
• Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford - added ownership of winning racehorses.
• Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis - added service in yeomanry regiments, local government, and decline of Viceroyalty of India.
• Prince George, Duke of Cambridge - examined scheme to marry him to cousin (future Queen) Victoria (with cited evidence this was known to her), added to honours list.
• Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire - added details of part-time military positions, later life university positions.
• Sir Lovelace Stamer, 3rd Baronet (Bishop of Shrewsbury) - added university rowing, chaplaincy of volunteers, further details of ministry in Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire.
• Sir Alfred Billson - corrected death information, added details of extra-parliamentary career, and residence in Shropshire.
• George Cadogan, 5th Earl Cadogan - added details of military service, contributions to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant.
• Sir Henry Lucy, journalist - added details on work in Shrewsbury
• John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry - added details of rifle volunteers service, equestrian achievements, death circumstances; deleted spurious honour.
• Admiral Lord Charles Beresford - added details of interests in promoting exercise, the Wenlock Olympian Society and William Penny Brookes; proposal of future Royal Naval Patrol Service, decorations, death and burial places.
• Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl Balfour (former British Prime Minister) - his (rejected) design for war graves headstone after First World War.
• Wilfred Scawen Blunt - added attempts to enter parliament.
• Sir Charles Yate - added earlier attempts to enter Parliament, service in First World War.
• Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - added list of honorary regimental appointments (ultimately Colonel of the Irish Guards).
• Harold Baily Dixon (chemist) - soccer career (including 1873 FA Cup Final for Oxford University), other details on scientific career, other sports.
• Sir James Heath - added details of four marriages, one to an aviatrix, as well as details on business career and military service.
• Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon - added details of education, field shooting record, and circumstances of death.
• Sir Samuel (Sam) Hughes, Canadian Militia Minister - examined claims made in Who's Who regarding his military career.
• John Doogan - Victoria Cross recipient - added details of service in WWI, civilian occupations, marriages, and residence in Montgomeryshire, Berkshire and Shropshire.
• Edward Brocklehurst Fielden (politican and businessman) - linked to Condover Hall and Nash, Shropshire, details of public offices on top of parliamentary seats given in the 'stub', further details on business career, kinship with several other MPs.
• Arnold Hills, sportsman, industrialist - appearance in 1877 FA Cup Final.
• Sir Victor Horsley (surgeon) - added service in rifle volunteers and RAMC TA pre 1914, gunshot wound experiments.
• Clopton Lloyd-Jones - amateur sportsman, winning scorer in 1880 FA Cup Final - added fuller details of life and sport career.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Alderson - added education (Ipswich School), brief service in Royal Scots regiment, corrected details regarding father-in-law and burial place, and linked him to articles on Hanwood, Shropshire, Ipswich School, Chesterton, Oxfordshire and Oulton Broad (where he lived on houseboat).
• Admiral Sir Cecil Thursby - added family and naval service details, and life post WWI in Shropshire.
• Teddy Wynyard (cricketer and amateur footballer) - added military career, decorations, sports apart from cricket.
• Charles Turner (1862-1926), English cricketer - added details of wartime service, both marriages, local government service in Berkshire.
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria - mentioned visit to England in 1913 and nearly being accidentally shot the year before his assassination.
• David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (former Prime Minister) - magisterial positions in Caernarfonshire and list of honours.
• Silvester Horne (Congregationalist minister and M.P.) - corrected on death circumstances, added he officiated at Sir Alfred Billson's funeral.
• Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig (son of 9th Marquess of Queensberry) - added details of birthplace, army service, more information on death circumstances.
• Dame Agnes Hunt, pioneer orthopaedic nurse - corrected and added details of earlier life and burial place.
• Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire - added military service and positions.
• Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge (brother in-law of King George V) - added further details of First World War service and postwar life in Shropshire.
• Neville Chamberlain (former Prime Minister) - list of honours.
• Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton - details of education, diplomatic career, government post as Lord in Waiting.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Butler - confirmed he died not at Shrewsbury (as per DNB) but Shawbury.
• John Charles Henry (aka Jack) Bowdler and Harry Ernest (aka Ernie) Bowdler - brothers who were Wales soccer internationals and Shrewsbury solicitors - populated stub with further details of their sport and lives outside it.
• John Beard (trade unionist), leader of the former Workers' Union - details of family, early working life, death circumstances.
• Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough - cousin of Winston Churchill, further details of marriage and military career.
• Clem Wilson (cricketer) - details of clergy career.
• Gilbert Frankau, novelist - details of military service in both World Wars
• Hewlett Johnson (the 'Red Dean' of Canterbury) - added details of schooling, pre-ordination employment, parish ministry in Altrincham, marriages, death and burial places.
• Matthew White Ridley, 2nd Viscount Ridley - added details of education, yeomanry service (into First World War).
• Sir Henry Maddocks (lawyer and MP) - added details of Shropshire birth and education, earlier attempts to enter parliament, fuller details of legal career, marriage.
• John Bromley - added details of Shropshire birthplace, early railway career, positions in trade union ASLEF, death and cremation places.
• John Strand-Jones (Wales Rugby International) - details of clergy career, linked to Hanwood, Shropshire (where Rector) and Shrewsbury Prison (where Chaplain).
• Will Osborne (Wales Rugby Union International) - recorded discovered death date (1942) and information on life in Shropshire from 1912, cited to local newspaper.
• George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd - added fact he was adopted (abortively) as candidate for Shrewsbury constituency in 1914.
• Maurice Arnold de Forest - from question raised over uniformed picture, instigated discovery and addition of his pre-WWI British militia and yeomanry service.
• Alfred Blunt (Bishop of Bradford) - details of family background, marriage, education, earlier teaching and clergy career, list of publications.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake and Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse, first two double-winners of the Victoria Cross - added only time they met, respectively as doctor and patient before latter died of wounds.
• Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood - added details of marriage, first attempt to enter Parliament, WWI service honours, birth, death and burial places.
• Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp (Blitz victim) - added military posts.
• Mary Webb (authoress) - details of education, villages lived at before marriage, first published writing (poem on railway disaster).
• Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood - added attempt to enter Parliament (pre-marriage to Princess Mary, Princess Royal).
• William Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech - added details of military service and activities (mainly in Middle East) in WWI.
• George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland - details of education, military service, and naval service First World War.
• Caradoc Evans (Welsh writer) - details of later life with second wife (below)
• Marguerite Jarvis, aka Oliver Sandys, Mrs Caradoc Evans, Countess Barczynska (authoress) - later life in Shropshire.
• William Compton, 6th Marquess of Northampton - mentioned his breach of promise case and British-record settlement.
• Sir Arthur Colegate, Conservative MP and businessman - further details of business and family
• Major Sir Guy Lloyd, 1st Baronet, Scottish Unionist M.P. - filled in on Shropshire family background, education, military, business and political careers.
• Major-General Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd, brother of above - family background, education, military service, burial place (killed in WWII).
• General Charles de Gaulle (French President) - family residence in Shropshire (1940-41) during exile in Second World War.
• Reverend Arthur Herbert Procter - VC recipient First World War - added family, education and civilian career (mainly as clergyman) details.
• Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver Leese - deconflated reference to his woundings in First World War, linked to Worfield, Shropshire, article.
• Wilfred Owen (WWI poet) - further and firmer detail on early life in Oswestry, Birkenhead and Shrewsbury.
• Harold Abrahams, athlete - athletic appearance in Shropshire pre 1924 Paris Olympics (subject of plaque).
• Colonel James Baldwin-Webb - corrected death year to 1940, named parliamentary constituency, and added substantial sections on military, business and political careers, death in Second World War.
• Edward Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire - added details of military career, business interests, roles in local government.
• William Gerhardie - added details of military service in World War I and Russian Civil War.
• Lancelot Hogben (scientist) - details on marriages, death and cremation places (Wrexham)
• Henry 'Harry' Chambers, England international soccer player - added details of military service, businesses and employment outside professional football, burial place.
• RSM Ronald Brittain - listed decorations.
• C.S. Lewis - introduced section on activities in Second World War.
• Boy RN Jack Cornwell VC - corrected identity of cemetery in which buried (from one with existing article to one without), with help of information from CWGC.
• Phaedrig O'Brien, 17th Baron Inchiquin - added details of education, military service and geological career (mostly in Africa).
• Alec Douglas-Home, former Prime Minister - added details of pre-WWII Territorial Army service.
• Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp (Blitz victim) - added details of birthplace, education, profession, marriage, children.
• Wilfred Fienburgh, Labour MP - military service and other pre-Parliament details.
• Sir Derrick Capper, former Chief Constable West Midlands Police - added details of Shropshire birth and upbringing and retirement and death in Shropshire (corrected death date).
• Hans Hahn (night fighter pilot), World War II German flying ace, killed over England 1941 - details of aerial victories and burial place.
• Flight Lieutenant Eric Lock, RAF WWII fighter pilot and flying ace - details on early life in Shropshire, and probable identity of Luftwaffe pilot who may have shot him down.
• Sir James Bottomley - marriage, baptism of son Sir Peter Bottomley and burial, all in Shropshire.
• Otto Grieg Tidemand - Norwegian Minister of Defence, added details on air force service under RAF in WWII (including crash on training in Shropshire) in English wikipedia.
• Sir Jack Hayward - businessman, philanthropist, owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
• William Yates (politician), successive MP in British and Australian Parliaments - loss of leg in Second World War, marriages.
• Donald Chapman, Baron Northfield, former Labour MP - role as Chairman of Telford Development Corporation.
• Reported to Wikipedia death of baritone Derek Hammond-Stroud in 2012, following local newspaper announcement.
• David Jenkins, Bishop of Durham - introduced details of military service.
• Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher - introduced details of military service.
• Norman Jones (actor) - amended birth date, added details of Shropshire birthplace, education, pre-TV employment, death circumstances, cremation place, cited to local newspaper report.
• Teresa Gorman (Conservative MP 1987-2001) - details on family background and marriages, cited to newspaper interview.
• Dame Stephanie Shirley - early life in Oswestry.
• Reported to Wikipedia in January 2015 death of Church of England clergyman and author Douglas Bartles-Smith (took place June 2014) following reading newspaper report on publication of his last book.
• Reported to Wikipedia in May 2015 that Delwyn Williams, (Conservative MP 1979-83), was supporting the United Kingdom Independence Party in the 2015 General Election.
• Jeremy Clarkson - motoring journalist and tv presenter - first motoring journalism for Shropshire Star.
• Reported to Wikipedia on 13 June 2016 that Ronald Atkins had become the only living ex MP to be a centenarian, citing report in Lancashire newspaper.
• Reported to Wikipedia on 22 March 2016, based on Shropshire Star report of 18 March, death of Les Cocker, former Wolves and Wellington United footballer.
• Reported to Wikipedia on 10 August 2021, based on Shropshire Star report of 9 August, death of Thomas Nicholls (boxer) (took place 31 July 2021).

Places

In Shropshire

• Cruckton - existence of site of Roman villa.
• Dudleston Heath - identified residence of Charles de Gaulle during Second World War exile.
• Great Ryton - mentioned two unrelated Admirals as past residents, veterans of respective World Wars.
• Hanwood - added section on parish church, local government, colliery and brickworks, mentions of John Strand-Jones, Clopton Lloyd-Jones and General Alderson as past residents.
• Meole Brace, Shrewsbury, Shropshire - added section on notable residents.
• Minsterley - corrected stated proximity of village from north to south-west of Pontesbury and from north-east to south-west of Shrewsbury, added details of parish church and war memorial.
• Pave Lane, Newport - boyhood home of Jeremy and Piers Corbyn.
• Shrewsbury, Shropshire - details on worst Second World War air raid, brewing industry presence, twinning with Zutphen and proposed twinning with Bayreuth, reported pending closure of major school.
• Stanton upon Hine Heath - added former home of Mary Webb (1896-1902).
• Upton Magna - drawn attention as birthplace of John Plimmer, known as the 'father of Wellington', where also baptised.
• Wem - brewing industry in town.
• Wistanstow - reported to wikipedia closure of Wood's Brewery in the village on 1 March 2022.
• Worfield - noted a home and burial place of General Sir Oliver Leese.

Elsewhere

• Birkenhead Woodside railway station - added section on association with Wilfred Owen (father stationmaster 1898-1907).
• Blacon, Chester - added section on Blacon Cemetery and Chester Crematorium.
• Broneirion, Llandinam, Montgomeryshire - reported to wikipedia sale of the mansion by Girlguiding Cymru in October 2022.
• Cane Hill Hospital, Croydon, London - added detail on hospital burial ground and World War I service inmates.
• Chesterton, Oxfordshire - added burial place of General Alderson (corrected from Lowestoft).
• Crewe, Cheshire - added to local Notable People list Richard Beckinsale, who worked in local repertory theatre before television debut, and mention of World War II air raids.
• Efford, Plymouth, Devon - added section on Plymouth city cemetery and crematorium.
• Everton Cemetery, Liverpool - added section on war graves, and on Yagan's head (once buried there).
• Haslar, Hampshire - added mention of Haslar Royal Naval Cemetery, burial place of Chick Henderson (singer).
• Ipswich School - added General Alderson to list of Old Ipswichians.
• London Road Cemetery, Coventry - added section on war graves, including VC recipient.
• Long Mountain (Powys) - added more on English area of the Mountain's length and declared it separate from the Breidden Hill.
• Pembroke Dock - added mention of Llanion and Military Cemeteries.
• Perry Barr, Birmingham - added mention of crematorium (first in Birmingham)
• Slough - added mention of town's actual crematorium (prophetically mentioned in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) and experience of aerial bombing in World War II (following John Betjeman's poetic wish for it to be bombed, published in 1937).
• Trent College - added Clopton Lloyd-Jones to list of Old Tridents, giving parity with two other, later, FA Cup Final veterans on the list.
• Upton by Chester, Cheshire - boyhood home and wedding place of John Prescott

Abroad

• El Alamein, Egypt - further details on Commonwealth War Cemetery there
• Hart Island, New York (cemetery) USA - caused name of 'famous screen writer' spuriously stated to be buried there to be deleted.
• Jerusalem British War Cemetery, Israel - details of location, casualties buried/commemorated there, CWGC Jerusalem Memorial.
• Khadki, India - details of Kirkee War Cemetery and the CWGC Memorials there.
• Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Australia - added statistics on CWGC registered service personnel and Victoria Cross recipients buried/cremated there.
• Southern Cemetery, Leipzig, Germany - deleted aviator brothers spuriously stated to be buried there.
• Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany - added British historian John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton to list of residents (wife's family home, died there).
• Larcomar shopping mall, Lima, Peru - reported to Wikipedia news of fire in the mall of 16 November 2016 and added a section outlining the disaster within the article.

Other Articles

• 1882 FA Cup Final - examined disputed identity of Old Etonians' goal scorer.
• 1904 Oswestry by-election - added involvement of Winston Churchill in the Liberal candidate's election campaign.
• 1st Canadian Division - corrected timing of appointment of first GOC (Sir Edwin Alderson) from early 1915 to October 1914.
• Atterbury Plot (1721) - added role of Sir Henry Goring (Jacobite co-conspirator in the plot, evaded arrest and was exiled.)
• Battle of Vimy Ridge - corrected timing of removal of Canadian Corps' first GOC (Alderson) from January 1917 to May 1916.
• Christmas Truce of 1914 - added accounts from letters by Walter Congreve, Alfred Anderson and Robert Patrick Miles, and reported new song for centenary, 1914 - A Carol of Christmas.
• Defence Helicopter Flying School - introduced list of notable graduates (beginning with Tim Peake).
• History of the FA Cup - added new subsection on Accident Firsts.
• King's Shropshire Light Infantry - sustaining first British Army casualties in 1919-21 Irish War of Independence.
• List of British monarchy records - reported death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and sealed his records as longest-serving and longest-lived sovereign's consort.
• List of fictional British politicians - added three Ministers and one backbench MP from English literature.
• List of friendly fire incidents - added to list incidents from English Civil War (1643), French and Indian War (1755), American Civil War (1865), Russo-Japanese War (1904), seven from First World War (1914, 1915, 1916 and 1918), Latvian War of Independence, twenty from the Second (1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943 and 1944) including sinking of the Jun'yo Maru, the worst friendly fire incident and shipping disaster for loss of life at the time, one from post-Second World War Palestine Emergency.
• List of last surviving veterans of military insurgencies and wars - added to list last British Army veteran of 1873 Anglo-Ashanti War, Second Anglo-Afghan War and First Boer War and Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1835-1936) to those of Crimean War.
• List of Mayors of Shrewsbury - added 4 notable former Mayors to list
• List of miscellaneous works by Temple Moore - corrected information on war memorial in Pontesbury Churchyard, Shropshire with description of original appearance before replacement.
• List of UK monarchy records - added category for age differences between outgoing and succeeding monarchs.
• Manchester Regiment - service of Wilfred Owen in the regiment in WWI
• Posthumous birth - added 10 people to the list of historic notable births (notably Raoul Wallenberg and Saddam Hussein).
• Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom - created new category sections on husband-wife, mother-daughter, and sister and brother MP sets, parents and daughters in law, and fathers and sons, and added to lists names of:

• 1 contender for longest-lived former MP (William Badger (died 1629)).
• 6 contenders to records as shortest-lived MP (category section created)
• 1 contender for record of oldest debut in the Commons (case of Warren Lisle aged reputedly 85 in 1780), that of MP with oldest confirmed birthdate (Sir Robert Pullar), and that of oldest woman (Ethel Bentham) (category section created).
• Mentioned several MPs who made more than one comeback to the House of Commons, (notably 4-times returner Lord Charles Beresford)..
• 8 former Commonwealth Prime Ministers who became a UK MP or Peer and 6 former MPs who became Prime Ministers in other countries of the British Commonwealth.
• the first Moravian Church member (Charles Hindley, Mormon (Terry Rooney) and Hindu (Shailesh Vara) returned at a General Election.
• 1 contender for tallest MP pre-20th century.
• 2 contenders for shortest adult MP (Sarah Teather and Hazel Blears).
• 108 MPs who were physically disabled when in office, taking period covered by list back to 1529. (I flagged up the page for that reason in the UK Parliament Facebook page in post relating to ParliAble network in January 2016.)
• 51 serving MPs and 94 former MPs who died through wartime active service pre World Wars (also list chronologised).
• 1 serving MP who died through active service in World War I.
• 1 former MP (Michael Collins) who died through active service in Inter War Years
• 1 serving MP and 2 former MPs who died through wartime active service in World War II.
• 1 serving MP and 4 former MPs who died as wartime civilian casualties (created new list, deaths covered far back as 1672).
• 75 serving MPs (notably Sir Robert Peel) and 106 former MPs who died from accidents, taking deaths covered by list back to 1386 (list chronologised).
• 23 serving MPs and 44 former MPs who committed suicide, taking deaths covered by list back to 1408 (list chronologised).
• 5 serving MPs and 24 former MPs who were murdered, taking period covered back to 1352 (list chronologised).
• 19 serving MPs (notably Admiral John Byng and Bobby Sands) and 100 former MPs who died in prison, were executed or died having escaped justice, taking period covered back to 1323 (list chronologised).
• 4 serving MPs and 1 former MP who disappeared, taking period covered by list back to 1731.
• 5 serving MPs and 3 former MPs who died as result of a duel (list chronologised), deaths covered advanced to 1822.

• Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom - added categories for:

• Prime Ministerial terms and reigns of sovereigns (triggered in 90th birthday celebrations of present Queen)
• age differences between successive Prime Ministers
• Prime Ministers' terms of office and reigns of sovereigns
• youngest and oldest ages at defeat in General Elections
• most Prime Ministers serving between General Elections
• Prime Ministers who held office without the involvement of General Elections
• Prime Ministers who served office from the House of Lords or later entered it
• Ethnic Minority Prime Ministers - first Anglo-Indian (Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool) and first Jewish (Benjamin Disraeli) and two others who had Jewish ancestors
• Religious Minority Prime Ministers - those belonging to other denominations than the Church of England
• Disabled Prime Ministers
• Armed forces veterans - first and last, only former generals, etc
• War bereaved Prime Ministers
• Decorated - most decorations (Churchill), decorations from most states (Wellington), first Nobel Prize winner (Churchill), first gallantry award winner (Anthony Eden), most commonly conferred order of knighthood on PMs
• Longest-married Prime Minister (James Callaghan) and shortest-married (Robert Walpole second marriage)
• Divorced - Duke of Grafton and Anthony Eden
• Kindred Prime Ministers - sets of fathers-sons, brothers, cousins, uncles-nephews, brothers-in-law, uncles-in-law/nephews-in-law etc.

• Royal Military Police - updated account with details of amalgamation into Adjutant General's Corps (1992).
• Shrewsbury Chronicle - added material on newspaper's history from its Bicentenary Souvenir (1972), mentioned notable reporters.
• Southill Park F.C. (defunct football club of 1870s) - details of team strip and ground in 1879, and Clopton Lloyd-Jones as former player.
• Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - details of first wife of Duke of Grafton, who divorced while in office in 1769.
• United Kingdom by-election records - added names of MPs whose deaths on active service in World War I caused by-elections, added to list of firsts and lasts in party by-election gains.
• United Kingdom general election records - started sections/sub-sections listing:

• seats lost by incoming Liberal governments.
• first general elections contested by new political parties.
• last general elections contested by defunct political parties.
• first general elections that followed changes in electoral laws or practices.

• Following the 2015 U.K. General Election, I reported to Wikipedia the change in Telford constituency from a Labour to a Conservative seat and inserted vote cast numbers for Wrekin and North Shropshire constituencies (held by Conservatives)

Featured Articles to which material contributed

The articles/lists below received added information unless otherwise stated:

People

Albert, Prince Consort*Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale*Horatio Bottomley*Robert Catesby*Neville Chamberlain*Princess Charlotte of Wales*Learie Constantine*Charles Darwin (illustration)*Benjamin Disraeli*Alec Douglas-Home*Edward VII of the United Kingdom*Sir Edward Elgar*Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover*George IV of the United Kingdom*George V of the United Kingdom*James II of England*Cosmo Gordon Lang (corrected information)*Nikita Khruschev*George Lansbury*Ronald Reagan (also added illustration)*Mary Martha Sherwood*Alexis Soyer (including corrected information)*Bert Trautmann*Ellen Wilkinson*William IV of the United Kingdom

Places

Altrincham*St Nicholas Church, Blakeney*Chartwell*Dorset*Manchester*Northampton War Memorial (corrected information)*Tower of London*Warwick Castle (including corrected information)*St Botolph's Church, Quarrington*Weymouth, Dorset

Others

Assassination of Spencer Perceval*Battle of Barnet*Battle of Bosworth Field (citation added)*Battle of Vimy Ridge (corrected information)*Coronation of the British monarch*Peterloo Massacre {corrected information}*Priestley riots*Stockton and Darlington Railway*Victoria Cross

Featured Lists

List of Archbishops of Canterbury*List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom

Good Articles to which material contributed

The articles below received added information from me unless otherwise indicated:

People

Sir Edwin Alderson*Arthur, Prince of Wales*W.H. Auden*Tony Benn*Charles Blackader*John Boydell (corrected information)*James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan*John Brunt*Winston Churchill*Edward Colston (updated information)*Thomas Crump*John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland*Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester*Caroline Flack*Hermann Göring*Henry VIII of England*Eric Lock*Manchester Martyrs*Romualdas Marcinkus (corrected information)*Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson*Sir Isaac Newton*Louis Nolan (corrected illustration and wikilinking)*Leni Riefenstahl*Franz Schubert*Mary Seacole (corrected information)*Chloe Sevigny*Stephen Sutton*Margaret Thatcher*Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard*Robert and Thomas Wintour

Places

St Beuno's Church, Aberffraw*St Mary's Church, Acton, Cheshire*Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery (updated information)*Ashford, Kent*Ashtead*St Mary's Church, Astbury*Basingstoke*Bentworth*Binsted, Hampshire*St Edern's Church, Bodedern*Bournemouth*Canterbury, Kent*St Ceinwen's Church, Cerrigceinwen*Chester Cathedral (improved picture caption)*Chew Magna*St Andrew's Church, Chew Stoke*Derwent Valley Mills (corrected information)*Dorchester, Dorset*Dorking*Eastbourne*Epsom*Galveston, Texas*Hebden, North Yorkshire*St Margaret's Church, Ifield, West Sussex*Islay*Leatherhead*St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch*St Peulan's Church, Llanbeulan*St Dona's Church, Llanddona*St Edwen's Church, Llanedwen*St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy*St Ffinan's Church, Llanffinan*St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog*St Gallgo's Church, Llangallgo*St Cristiolus's Church, Llangristiolus*St Nidan's Church, Llanidan*St Gwenllwyfo's Church, Llanwenllwyfo*St Iestyn's Church, Llaniestyn*London Necropolis railway station*Ludlow Castle (corrected wikilinking)*M54 motorway*St Lawrence's Church, Mereworth*Middlewich*Oakhanger, Hampshire (corrected information)*All Saints Church, Patcham*St Mary's Church, Pentraeth*Poole*Portishead, Somerset (updated information)*Portsmouth (corrected information)*Powis Castle (corrected information)*Richmond Park*Romford*Shalden*Shrewsbury (delisted as GA 2023)*Staines-upon-Thames*Steep, Hampshire*Stokesay Castle (corrected information)*St Beuno's Church, Trefdraeth*St George's Church, Trotton*Uxbridge*Weston-super-Mare*Weybridge

Others

1900 Galveston hurricane*Christmas truce*Commonwealth War Graves Commission*Gunpowder Plot (corrected information)* HMS Hostile (H55)*Murder of Celine Figard (named then Home Secretary)*Norway Debate*Royal National Lifeboat Institution (corrected and clarified information)*Statue of Edward Colston (corrected information)*Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl*

Other Milestones

Edited 1,000th article on Thursday 31 January 2013 - Christ Church, Eaton, Cheshire. Added section "Churchyard" to report a CWGC-registered war grave.

Edited 2,000th article on Saturday, 2 November 2013 - Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley. Added details of education, political party, election to Royal Society, and (accidental) circumstances of death.

Edited 3,000th article on Sunday, 25 May 2014 - Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Iowa, USA. Added details of CWGC-registered war grave.

Edited 4,000th article on Tuesday, 16 December 2014 - Acton Reynald village, Shropshire. Added mention of Acton Reynald Hall and practical demolition of village to create its parkland.

First interview - on 28 January 2015 for Project Report on WikiProjectDeath for The Signpost issue of 4 February 2015 (titled "Dicing with death - on Wikipedia?").

Edited 5,000th article on Friday, 12 June 2015 - Dairy Crest, updated reference to Crudgington Creamery, Shropshire, now closed, with research facility moved to Harper Adams University and sandwich spread production concentrated in Kirkby (from Shropshire newspaper story).

Edited 6,000th article on Wednesday, 13 January 2016 - Newcastle, Shropshire. Added section on parish church.

Edited 7,000th article on Thursday, 22 September 2016 - Suzi Perry. Added award of honorary degree from University of Wolverhampton.

Edited 8,000th article on Saturday, 3 November 2018 - James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist). Added significant biographical information including full life dates, education, family details.

Edited 9,000th article on Saturday, 13 June 2020 - Richard Colley (cricketer) - added information on education pre-university and county cricketing for Oxfordshire and Shropshire.

Edited 10,000th article on Saturday, 20 February 2021 - Lyttelton family - added caption information on portrait of judge Thomas Littleton and added talk page comment drawing to attention omission of Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, the Stuart judge who was a descendant.

Edited 11,000th article on Sunday, 4 July 2021 - Great Bridge Unity F.C. - pinpointed county of Great Bridge's location during 1880s (Staffordshire), information on club lifespan.

Edited 12,000th article on Friday, 19 November 2021 - Diocese of Newcastle (Church of England) - corrected the stated number of honorary assistant Bishops then serving the diocese.

Edited 13,000th article on Thursday, 19 May 2022 - Howard Plumb - further detail of life outside his sport.

Edited 14,000th article on Wednesday, 8 February 2023 - Ana Pauker - raised citation need over her stated birth date which is variously given as February and December 1893.

Edited 15,000th article on Friday, 29 September 2023 - Charlotte Burbury - clarified she died at Richmond in London.

IP Accounts

While I endeavour to save all edits under my user name, I have also (accidentally, not by design) contributed edits under following IP addresses:

217.141.23.33 - 16 biographies, three places, Talk re 1876 FA Cup Final.

213.122.140.252 - 3 biographies, two places (I disown oldest edit in account - was not an editor in 2011).

194.81.127.244 - Four place articles (Powis Castle, West Ham Jewish Cemetery, Westminster Abbey Burials and Monuments, Sidestrand), talk points re Sir Sam Hughes, Stanley Baldwin and 6th Marquess of Northampton, and 3 biographies (Lancelot Hogben, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, 6th Marquess of Northampton.)

85.158.202.7 - Added Sir William Strickland to list of Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom killed in accidents.

86.155.139.70.132 - 5 biographies, one place (Hodnet).

86.152.158.133 - 3 biographies, one Talk re Second Battle of Ypres).

86.141.23.33 - Article on Hewlett Johnson.

86.137.43.2 - Article on Brookwood Cemetery (disown first edit in the account)

86.132.13.37 - one Talk re Major General Hubert Hamilton.

81.153.121.160 - 3 biographies, besides two edits to this profile.

31.48.248.218 - introduced section on divorced Prime Ministers (Anthony Eden) in Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom,and work on section on Brother Sets of MPs in Records of members of parliament of the United Kingdom.

217.35.253.76 - further detail of WWI service of Sir Oswald Mosley.

30.50.165.221 - entered in Records of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom the shortest interval (fastest comeback) between terms served by a Prime Minister - Henry Pelham's two days out of office in 1746.

217.35.253.7 - further detail in talk page comment to article on Larcomar, regarding coverage of recent fire disaster.

TO BE CONTINUED