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Like his father and grandfather, William became a Weslyan minister and in 1875 the first headmaster of The Leys School, Cambridge.
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Like his father and grandfather, William became a Weslyan minister and in 1875 the first headmaster of The Leys School, Cambridge.
William"s father, James Moulton, was a Wesleyan minister and he had at least three other brothers, and probably two sisters. He remained headmaster for the rest of his life. One of the school"s houses is named after him.
He was elected President of the Methodist Conference at Bristol in 1890.
On a stormy afternoon in 1898, he was on his way to visit a sick parishioner when he suffered a heart attack in the grounds of the school. A gardener found him and bought him back to his house, where he died soon after, aged sixty-two.
He was interred in Histon Road Cemetery, Cambridge, and has a memorial in Wesley"s Chapel, London. He would walk out of the room rather than hear a laudatory passage about himself.".
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