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Reverend Theodore Percival Wilson, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxon, was Rector of St. Michael, Smethcote from 1862 to 1870; he died 8th August, 1881. Smethcote is a parish in the diocese of Lichfield, and in the rural deanery and hundred of Condover; it lies 9 miles south-west from Shrewsbury, and 5 miles north of Church Stretton. The population in 1881 was 283, and the area is 2,705 acres.

In 1852 he had been vicar of St. John's Church, Adelaide, South Australia. Adelaide figures largely in "Frank Oldfield", as also does Shropshire, the county in which Smethcote lies.

He was subsequently vicar of Pavenham, Bedfordshire, England.