In 1855 he joined a Mr. Mickleburg at Thanet collegiate school, Margate, as a partner. He was badly taken in over the partnership, and went through some anxious and exciting experiences. He found on closer acquaintance that the establishment much resembled that presided over by Mr. Squeers in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, and that by taking matters into his own hands only could his credit and capital be saved. He therefore insisted in taking entire management, both pecuniary and scholastic. Mr. Mickleburg died in 1857, and Charles Wyncoll carried on the school which increased yearly in reputation and numbers. Year after year it headed the list of successes at the College of Preceptors, and many of those who were trained there have become successful men and well-known in the world. When he left it in September, 1869, there were 140 pupils including those at a preparatory school attached at Thanet Lodge. The house had necessarily been enlarged and altogether re-organised, and I laid the memorial stone of the fine new school house in 1857. 

     He married Jane, daughter of Baker Austen, Esq., of Ashford, Kent, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, London, on the 20th January, 1857.

     My father took holy orders in 1865 from Dr. Longley, Archhishop of Canterbury, and was curate at the parish church of St. John, at Margate, to the vicar, the Rev. Canon Josiah Bateman, M.A. He took priest's orders in 1866. He bought the advowson of the parish of Yelvertoft, in Northamptonshire, where he went in September, 1869, on the death of the former vicar. Here lie worked for six years, presenting an organ and reredos to the beautiful old church of St. Michael and All Angels, which he otherwise much improved. He left Yelvertoft in 1875, much to the sorrow of his parishioners, by whom he was presented with a very handsome piece of plate and an address. 

     The soil of Yelvertoft was a stiff clay and did not suit my dear mother, and a change of residence became necessary. He moved from there to Dudley, in Worcestershire, where he became vicar of the new parish of St. Luke, where he remained till 1890. 

     The work of this large and poor parish, unaided, became too much for him, and he again moved, once more the recipient of a piece of plate and an illuminated address in proof of the esteem in which be was held. After acting as locum tenens in several places in the south and west of England, my dear mother's health became extremely delicate, and my father found it absolutely necessary to have a settled home, so took the " Haven," Teignmouth, South Devon, where he resided until his death. 

     He frequently officiated for clerical friends in the neighbouring parishes, even in his eighty-first year. In addition to the presentations mentioned above, he received a clock from the parishioners of St. Edmunds, Dudley, and numerous pieces of plate from his old pupils, which, needless to say, he greatly treasured, as recalling old affections and labours "well done." 

     My dear mother was born at Ashford, Kent, on the 22nd November, 1827. I do not know much of her forbears. Her grandfather Austen's grave I have seen; it is in the old churchyard at Ashford, and the stone bears the following inscription:-

     His wife Sarah died 1838, aged 71 years, and was the daughter of Charles Baker. 

     My grandmother Austen was a Steddy, I believe of Willsborough. I have copies of pedigrees of Austens and Steddys, and I hope some day to take up the history of my dear mother's family. 

     My mother, who had been more or less an invalid for years, died at the "Haven," Teignmouth, South Devon, on the 17th May, 1902, and was buried at Buckfastleigh, Devon, beside her daughter. 

     Charles Wyncoll died at the "Haven," Teignmouth, on the 22nd April, 1909, and was buried in the same grave with my dear mother at Buckfastleigh, on the 27th April, the day after he would have celebrated his eighty-first birthday. 

     He married in August, 1903, Louisa, widow of ... Bramwell, at Ipswich, by whom there was no issue, and who survives him.