Bristol Grammar School

I was very blonde as a little boy.

And he suddenly, he looked at, at, and he, he saw the back of my head and thought, "That was that guy [laughs] who was at, in the school at B- Bristol Grammar School, in that, in that class, 2A." And, uh, so he, we, we then got introduced and, uh-

[laughs]

... actually via, via his wife, Prue, who was doing a play which I was in at the Arts Theater, and Timmy came to see it, and, uh, we met then, and he told me this story.

One can see the high church influences in his hymns.

William attended Bristol Grammar School and had literary aspirations like his father, but also, like his father, he sought steady employment in the trades.

He ended up the manager of a marine insurance company in Glasgow.

He would write hymns in his spare time, often whilst convalescing from sickness.