William Champion Streatfeild[4] (1839–1912) and Selina Frances Diana Leveson-Gower (1840–1916), and was educated at Marlborough and Pembroke College, Cambridge before being ordained in 1890.
[5] His ministry began with a curacy at Sittingbourne under his father-in-law, Henry Venn, after which he was Curate to his own father in Frant, Sussex.
[4] He then began a long period as Incumbent at several Sussex parishes: Amberley (with Houghton), St Leonards-on-Sea from 1902,[6] and Eastbourne (where he was also Rural Dean).
William Champion Streatfeild, was the sometime Vicar of Howick, Ryton-on-Tyne, Kings Worthy and Frant.
William died on 15 February 1929 aged 63 while travelling on the 9.29 train from Lewes to Eastbourne for a dental appointment, three days after his diocesan bishop Winfrid Oldfield Burrows.