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Saturday, May 17, 2025

Rev William Beadon Norman 1926-2025

The Rev William Beadon Norman, who died 10 May, 2025, aged 99, was head of that landed gentry family, of Bromley Common.

The barrister, later clergyman, served in the RAC and the 9th Lancers, was ordained a deacon in 1952, and a priest in 1953; was born 14 February, 1926, the elder son and heir of Brigadier-General Charles Wake Norman, CBE, DL (1891-1974), of West Farleigh Hall, Maidstone, Kent, by his wife the former Nora Beadon (1902-1990); and married 8 October, 1952, Beryl Welch (born 1926), daughter of John George Embleton Welch, of Wolverhampton, and later of Chambersburg, Pa, United States, by his wife the former Elizabeth Cowan, by whom he had three sons, Stephen (b 1954), James (b 1959), and Paul (b 1961, deceased), and four daughters, Henrietta (deceased) and Julia (twins b 1956), Sarah (twin with Paul) & Charity.

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