Reverend G. W. Weldon
(1825-1889)

The son of Patrick Campbell Weldon, George Warburton Weldon was born on 21 February 1825 at Queentown (now called Cobh) in County Cork, Ireland, and educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA, 1849; MA, 1864). He was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Tuam in 1850, and became a priest the following year. From 1862 to 1869 he was the Vicar of St Andrew the Less in Cambridge, and then the Vicar of St Saviour in Upper Chelsea from 29 April 1869 to 2 January 1882. From 1882 until his death he was the Vicar of Bickley, near Bromley in Kent.

For some years he was the editor of The Rock and in 1871 published Unity in Variety: A Series of Arguments based on the Divine Workmanship of our Planet, the Constitution of the Human Mind, and the Inspired History of Religion.

On 14 June 1854 at St Michael's in Highgate he married Rosa Parkin Peacock, daughter of Mark Beauchamp Peacock. She died on 9 September 1859 at Southwood in Highgate, the residence of her father (Morning Post, 14 September 1859).

Reverend Weldon appears on the 1861 census, a 36-year-old widower living at 7 Norfolk Road, Marylebone, London, with his four young sons and his unmarried sister, Mary. At the time of the census he was a 'clergyman - without care of souls.' Miss Weldon had three servants, including a cook and a nurse, to help her run the house.

Reverend George Warburton Weldon died, aged 64, on 9 November 1889 at the Vicarage in Bickley, Kent. He left an estate originally sworn at £9257 but subsequently resworn at £889.