John Stansfeld

His father was a relative of the Stansfeld family of Stansfield and Field House, Sowerby, Yorkshire.

In 1877, he moved to Oxford, and later matriculated as a student at Exeter College, where he studied Medicine, attaining his BA in 1889, MA in 1893 and qualified as a doctor in 1897.

[2] In 1909, he decided to take Holy Orders and studied part-time at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

He campaigned successfully for the erection of a children's playground and public baths in St Ebbe's.

[6] Stansfeld married Janet Marples (1871–1918) on 16 June 1902 at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London, and they had two children.