We have recently researched the lives of two of the Vicars of Whitfield:
Henry Thornton Dudley and Charles Bruce Ward
Ward:
The children of a clergyman whose ancestors are many.
Bernard Michael WARD, 21 August 1875
Charles John Selwyn WARD, 26 June 1873
Frederick William Rawle WARD, 7 November 1879
Harold Ambrose WARD, 18 December 1876
Originally part of the ancient parish of Glossop, it became a parish in its own right.