Short Biography of William Blagburn

Short Biography of William James Blagburn

William James Blagburn was born on the 21st of October, 1929. He was the son of James Cecil and Winifred Madeley. He was born in Coventry and had a younger sister called Jean. He was educated at King Henry VIII Grammar School in Coventry. His father was killed by a German air raid on Coventry in 14th of November, 1940. He left school at the age of sixteen and started to work at the family business named after his paternal grandmother’s family called Laxon’s of Coventry, a wholesale grocery. He stopped working there in 1972 and shortly after went into business at a wholesale toy and stationary suppliers called Thompson’s of Coventry. William married Nora Perryman in 1955. His eldest son, Jonathan Blagburn, was born in 1956, and David Blagburn was born four years later. In 1960 they moved to Stoneleigh Village where Nora and he have lived ever since.