Rev William Alderson
Rev William Alderson died Sept. 30 1852 in his 80th year He was Rector of Aston, Yorkshire, and Perpetual Curate of Tissington, Derbyshire, and a Magistrate of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Mr. Alderson was of a Cumberland family. His father, the Rev. Christopher Alderson, came to Aston as Curate to the Rev. William Mason the poet, with whom he lived. He became his executor, and was presented to the living by the Duke of Leeds, the patron, on Mr. Mason's death. He died in 1814, having previously in 1811 resigned it to his son. He also held the valuable living of Eckington, in the same neighbourhood, presented to him by the Crown. Mr. Alderson was a member of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1795, M.A. 1804. He was instituted to the Perpetual Curacy of Tissington in 1811 by his friend Sir H. FitzHerbert. He married in 1813 Harriett, eldest daughter of Joseph Walker, of Eastwood and Aston, and sister to Sir Edward Samuel Walker, of Berry Hill, near Mansfield.
The body of Mr. Alderson was interred in a vault on the south side of Aston church (close to the chancel door, and nearly opposite to the spot where Mason lies. His funeral was attended by many of the neighbouring clergy, among whom were the Hon. and Rev. T. Erskine, the Hon. and Rev. W. Howard, the Rev. Bernard Watkins of Treeton, the Rev. J. Hand of Handsworth, the Rev. Allan FitzHerbert of Tissington, and by other much valued friends among the laity. The funeral service was performed by the Rev. H. Harvey, who had been for many years the respected Curate of the Parish, and the assistant of Mr. Alderson in all his parochial duties.