Shirley Village Archive

Derby Daily Telegraph - 25 March 1941

DEATH OF REV. R. E. COATES The Rev. Richard Edward Coates, formerly Vicar of Shirley, near Brailsford, has died in Buxton nursing home aged 79. Mr. Coates, who was a Derbyshire man, was missionary at Scanterbury, Manitoba, from 1892 to 1909. On returning...