Abstract
Willie Sucksmith was a complete Yorkshireman. Even his rather surprising Christian name was common in the district where he was born and brought up. At the time of his birth his father was secretary of a small firm of chemical manufacturers at Cleckheaton, near Bradford, and his mother, Annie Elizabeth, came from Sheffield. They married in 1892 and Willie was born at Low Moor (a suburb of Bradford) in 1896; a daughter was born later, in 1903. Bill’s early upbringing (he did not like the name Willie) was entirely in Yorkshire, mainly in the village of Hipperholme, near Halifax, where his family had moved after his father had changed his work. His father’s post was not well paid and the family lived a fairly humble life, as their ancestors had done for several generations. There is no record of any member of the family having a scientific inclination, from whom Bill Sucksmith could have inherited the talents that he showed later.
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