Remembering Roger Wilson

A FORMER Birstall parish councillor and Mayor of Charnwood has died.

Roger represented the Birstall Stonehill Ward as a borough councillor from May 1991 to May 2003 and then represented the Birstall Watermead ward from May 2003 until May 2011.

Roger served as the Mayor of Charnwood in 2005/06. During his civic year, he raised £14,798 for Glebe House, his chosen charity as the Mayor.

He served on Birstall Parish Council for many years, and in 2009 was elected chairman of Leicestershire County Council, having served as Birstall’s county councillor for 20 years, retiring in 2013.

His early years were spent in Liverpool, Manchester and the Isle of Man. In 1951 he started work at Midland Bank in Lincoln. He served in the RAF before returning to the bank and was transferred to Leicester, where he bought his first house in Birstall. He took early voluntary retirement in 1989 and began public service in local politics.

Roger was active in the Methodist Church and served as a governor at Stonehill school.