| Extract from Northamptonshire Contemporary Biographies, by W T Pike, 1908 |
William Hirst Simpson—Higham Ferrers; son of the late Rev. William Hirst Simpson, of Stretton Rectory, Oakham; born at Falkingham, Lincolnshire, March 8th, 1847; educated at Uppingham School, and St. John's College, Cambridge; B.A., January, 1869. Solicitor; admitted 1872; served Articles with Wiles and Chapman, of Horbling, Lincolnshire; senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Simpson and Mason, of Higham Ferrers, Rushden and Wellingborough; member of the Incorporated Law Society; Town Clerk of Higham Ferrers, and Clerk to the Justices; Clerk to the Magistrates, Wellingborough Division of the county of Northampton; Past Master of the Chichele Lodge of Freemasons (No. 607); a Governor of the Wellingborough, and Northampton Grammar Schools; member of the Northants County Council; Chairman of the Joint County and Borough Boot and Shoe Committees. Recreations: rowing, hunting, and shooting. Married, firstly, in 1871, Helen, daughter of the late Rev. Joseph Clark, of Little Bytham, and has issue surviving four sons and three daughters; secondly, in 1906, Katharine Maud, daughter of the late Thomas Evans, of Chepstow. Clubs: Bath, and Northamptonshire County.
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