Designer and decorator
Francis Tyldesley Pagett, who worked in partnership with his father Mr Alfred T. Pagett as a designer and decorator, was a county magistrate and member of Standish Council as well as a governor of St Peter’s Secondary Modern School, Orrell, and of St Marie’s School, Standish.
During the Second World War he was a major in the Royal Army Service Corps, serving in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Cyprus, Iran and Iraq. He became officer and commanding and chief instructor: camouflage and deception, Middle East Training Centre and Training Unit.
On June 18th, 1938, he wed Mary Tunnicliffe Croome at St Mary’s Church, Wigan.
See details of c. 1939 etching of the church.
The Queen awarded him the O.B.E. in 1962 for political and public services in Lancashire
(London Gazette supplement for June 2nd 1962,
p. 4320).