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THE  RT.  REV.  MGR.  CANON  SOUTER, 

Domestic  Prelate  to  His  Holiness. 
TENTH  PRESIDENT  OF  OSCOTT. 

(From  a  Photograph  by  W.  Wort,  of  Sutton  Coldfield.) 


OSCOTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  13. 


®0artian: 


Stterary  <8aytte  of  St.  ZHary's 
(Dscott. 


THE  JUBILEE   OF   OSCOTT. 


ReUgwni  ac  Bonis  Artibus. 


ST.  MARY'S  COLLEGE,  OSCOTT. 

1888. 

Birmingham  :  Printed  by  Hall  and  English,  High  Street. 


CONTENTS. 


English  Ode    .... 

Latin        ,,.... 

German    ,, 

French     ,,  . 

Italian      ,,       • 

Old  and  New  Oscott 

The  Founder  of  New  Oscott    . 

Oscott 's  Influence  on  Catholic 
Education    . 


PAGE. 
I 
6 
8 
ii 
15 
17 
28 

47 


PAGE. 
The  Spirit  of  Oscott          .        .      60 

Gleanings  from  the  Records  of 
Oscott          ....      66 

Oscott's  Share  in  the  Restoration 
of  Christian  Art  .        .     112 

Oscott,  the  centre  of  the  Catholic 

Movement   .        .        .        .120 

Our  Portraits    .        .        .        .170 
Jubilee  Hymn  with  Music        .     181 


List  of  Superiors 
,,     Cardinals 
, ,     Bishops 
„     Priests  . 


APPENDIX. 

PAGE.  PAGE. 

I      List  of  Religious  (not  Priests)   .      24 

5  ,,     Nobility  &  Titled  Students  25 

6  ,,     Lay  and  Divinity  Students  34 

7  ,,     Lay  Masters,  with  addenda  117 


PORTRAITS. 


1.  Monsignor  Souter 

2.  Cardinal  Howard 

3.  Bishop  Ilsley 

4.  Monsignor  Stonor 

5.  St.  George  Mivart 

6.  Charles  Kent 

7.  Augustus  Welby  Pugin        ..-.,. 

8.  John,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury 

9.  Major  General  Dormer 

10.  Captain  Fegen,  R.N. 

11.  Mr.  Justice  Day 

12.  Edwin  de  Lisle,  M.P. 

13.  Sir  Thomas  Grattan  Esmonde,  M.P.  . 

VIEWS. 

1.  Bird's  Eye  View  of  New  Oscott 

2.  Old  Oscott 

3.  North  East  View  of  New  O-scott          .... 

4.  New  Baths  at  Perry  and  Bandy  Woods 

5.  The  Chapel  of  the  New  College          .... 

6.  The  Sutton  Lodge   (designed  by  Pugin)     . 

7.  Corpus  Christi  Procession  at  Oscott  (designed  by  Pugin) 


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PREFACE. 


MY  first  and  most  pleasant  duty  in  issuing  this  volume  of  the 
Oscotian  is  to  thank  most  cordially  the  writers,  one  and  all, 
who,  at  great  personal  inconvenience  and  in  the  midst  of 
other  laborious  duties,  have  so  generously  placed  their 
services  at  my  disposal,  and  thus  enabled  their  Alma  Mater 
to  celebrate  its  Jubilee  in  a  literary  as  well  as  in  a  festive 
form.  The  appendix  alone,  containing  complete  lists  of 
boys,  masters,  and  superiors  since  1794,  is  a  work  repre- 
senting years  of  patient  toil,  forswhich  the  Rev.  W.  M.  Stone 
is  entitled  to  the  gratitude  of  Os*cotians.  Both  in  the  revision 
of  the  lists  and  throughout  the  volume  I  have  received  much 
valuable  help  from  the  Vice-President,  the  Rev.  J.  Caswell. 

To  ensure  publication  in  time  for  the  Jubilee,  it  has  been 
necessary  to  pass  the  papers  through  the  press jvith  undue 
haste ;  hence  many  blemishes  appear  which,  if  leisure  for 
more  severe  scrutiny  had  been  allowed,  would  have  been 
removed.  Literary  finish  has  been  sacrificed  to  expediency  ; 
for  better  is  a  well-timed  work,  though  imperfect,  than  a 
perfect  work  out  of  season. 

As  recent  numbers  of  the  Oscotian  contained  portraits  of 
Bishop  Milner  and  Mgr.  Weedall,  their  portraits  are  not 
given  again,  although  much  that  is  said  in  this  volume  centres 
round  those  illustrious  men. 

M.  F.  G. 

OSCOTT, 

JULY  20TH,   1888. 


"I  see  a  bleak  mount,  looking  upon  an  open  country,  over  against 
that  huge  town,  to  whose  inhabitants  Catholicism  is  of  so  little  account. 
I  see  the  ground  marked  out,  and  an  ample  enclosure  made ;  and 
plantations  are  rising  there,  clothing  and  circling  in  the  space.  And 
there  on  that  high  spot,  far  from  the  haunts  of  men,  yet  in  the  very 
centre  of  the  island,  a  large  edifice,  or  rather  pile  of  edifices,  appears, 
with  many  fronts  and  courts,  and  long  cloisters  and  corridors,  and  story 
upon  story.  And  there  it  rises,  under  the  invocation  of  the  same  sweet 
and  powerful  name  which  has  been  our  strength  and  consolation  in  the 
Valley.  I  look  more  attentively  at  that  building,  and  I  see  it  is  fashioned 
upon  that  ancient  style  of  art  which  brings  back  the  past,  which  had 
seemed  to  be  perishing  from  off  the  face  of  the  earth,  or  to  be  preserved 
only  as  a  curiosity,  or  to  be  imitated  only  as  a  fancy.'' — CARDINAL 
NEWMAN. 


(Baytte  of  St.  HTary's 
Oscott. 


No.  22.  NEW  SERIES.  JULY,  1888. 


St.  ZHatY's  College,  ®scott, 
1838-1888. 


A  JUBILEE  ODE. 


a'iSeffai  dt  juqrspa  iroXXwv  tr&v  K\ripovxov-  — 

SOPHOCLES,  Ajax,  507. 
I. 

Come  back  loved  memories  of  my  vanished  youth  ! 

Return  sweet  echoes  of  that  day  long  dead 

When  first  on  this  wild  moorland  height  its  head 
Our  fair  fane  lifted  —  Home  and  Haunt  of  Truth  ! 
Again  I  hear  the  choral  voices  ringing 

As  winds  the  rapt  procession  on  its  way  : 
Again  I  scent  the  odorous  censers  swinging 

As  'round  the  altar  groups  that  grand  array. 
There,  like  dread  parted  tongues  of  fire 
At  Pentecost,  to  Heaven  aspire 

Three  mitred  brows  with  aspect  holy  — 
The  Lord  of  Cambysopolis,  and  he 

Of  Trachis,  meek',  benign  and  lowly  ; 
And,  with  a  mien  augustly  grave,  of  Siga's  see 
The  princely  ruler  —  Prelates  loved  of  God  !  — 

Whose  jewelled  croziers  were  but  symbolled  crooks 


Of  shepherds ;  whose  firm  feet,  where'er  they  trod, 
Led  forth  their  willing  flocks  to  pastures  new, 
With  verdure  robed,  asperged.with  glittering  dew  ; 

From  whose  revered,  from  whose  benignant  looks 
Such  blessings  fell  as  sanctify  earth's  sod ! 

II. 

Revered  !  Beloved  !    And  that  dear  younger  throng 

Now  all  but  scattered  from  this  world  away ! — 

Once  more  I  see  as  on  that  morn  of  May, 
Priests,  Prelates,  Students — theme  for  noblest  song  ! 
Again  each  well  remembered  form,  with  wonder, 

I  note — long  lost  to  Earth  ! — now  reappears  : 
Again  my  heart  thrilled  by  the  organ's  thunder, 

Seems,  as  I  gaze,  to  blur  my  sight  with  tears. 
Though  fifty  years  have  since  been  told, 
Well  nigh,  e'en  then,  had  been  unrolled 

An  earlier  Jubilee,  where,  planted 
All  humbly  first  in  yonder  neighbouring  vale, 

A  century's  vigorous  growth  was  granted 
To  what,  since  then,  has  told  but  one  triumphant  tale. 
Loved  Alma  Mater  !     Has  she  not  revealed, 

Ev*n  from  her  advent,  pride  in  all  her  sons  ? 
To  their  higher  interests  has  she  not  appealed 
At  every  turn  ?     Have  not  her  teachers  sped 
Light  on  the  path  each  tyro  sought  to  tread  ? 

Her  hope  for  each,  their  loftiest  dream  outruns  ! 
Her  pledge  for  all  is  ever  signed  and  sealed  ! 

III. 

Another  day  more  radiant  than  the  first, 

Less  than  three  lustres  from  that  opening  hour, 
As  light  brings  promise  to  the  budding  flower, 

Gave  signal  that  our  Second  Spring  had  burst ! 

Was  not  that  phrase  made  dear  to  all  our  hearts 
By  lips  seraphic  touched  by  sacred  fire, 

Thro'  Words  the  thought  of  which,  ev'n  now,  imparts 


Wings  to  those  hopes  that  heavenward  still  aspire  ? 
What  sweetness  yet  about  them  clings  ! 
What  music  in  their  echo  rings  ! 

While,  thro'  them  breathed  in  accents  tender, 
What  rare  prophetic  vision  sprang  to  light, 

Fulfilled  in  that  brave  pageant's  splendour ! 
When,  like  some  heavenliest  aloe  flowering  in  a  night 
After  three  centuries'  slumber,  there  appeared — 

Bornjn  the  purple,  here,  in  this  dear  home, 
In  these  collegiate  halls  so  lately  reared, 
Alluring  souls  with  grace  that  love  invites, 
And  consecrated  thus  with  solemn  rites — 

Lo  !  as  of  old,  to  England  come  from  Rome, 
A  Hierarchy  as  potent  as  revered  ! 

IV. 

Who  sent  that  priceless  gift  defying  Time  ? 

He  who  among  the  Pontiffs  stands  supreme, 

Sole  realiser  of  the  wond'rous  dream 
Of  passing  even  Peter's  years  sublime  ! 
Who — Man's  Upholder  of  Earth's  Bridge  to  Heaven  ! — 

Upon  God's  Mother's  starriest  diadem, 
With  scintillations  like  celestial  levin, 

Fixed  on  its  fore-front  its  divinest  gem — 
Proclaiming  her  unsullied  state 
By  that  dread  name — Immaculate  ! 

Who  lifted  to  full  height  his  glory 
When  'round  his  sacred  chair  at  Rome, 

Completing  thus  the  Papal  story, 

Seven  hundred  bishops  gathered  'neath  the  marvellous  dome, 
Obedient  to  his  mandate  like  a  spell, 

From  realms  remotest  summoned  to  his  throne. 
There,  as  from  Sinai's  awe-girt  mountain  fell — 
While  blinding  bolts  of  lightning  pierced  the  gloom, 
'Mid  dire  concussions  of  the  thunder's  boom — 

God's  Decalogue,  thro'  storms  the  fiat's  thrown 
That  hails  the  Church's  Chief  Infallible ! 


V. 

Reverting  to  the  days  when,  in  yon'  dale 

Secluded  from  men's  sight,  in  this  loved  isle, 

The  mild  precursor  of  our  statelier  pile 
First  rose  to  view  in  lowly  Maryvale  : 
What  time — as  thro'  the  gates  of  hell  appalling, 

Wide  open  flung  by  demons  of  revolt, 
Fierce,  Godless  France,  to  startled  Europe  calling, 

Gave  signal  for  earth's  last,  most  dire  assault ! — 
There,  in  that  evil  time,  revered, 
The  champion  of  God's  Church  appeared, 

Castabala's  hopeful  prelate,  dreaming 
Of  happier  moments  for  his  scattered  fold, 

When,  thro'  black  doubt,  faith's  orient  streaming 
To  brightest  noonday  light  once  more  should  be  unrolled. 
To  his  prophetic  eye,  then,  calm  and  clear, 

That  lovely  vision  rose,  articulate  made 
By  England's  Chrysostom,  thro'  words  how  dear ! 
S\veet,  honeyed  droppings  from  the  golden  mouth  ! 
Soft,  balmy  breathings  as  from  heavenliest  south ! 

That  dream  whose  gracious  charm  can  hardly  fade 
Though  in  blurred  reflex  it,  thus,  reappear. 

VI. 

Foreshadowed  on  the  yet  unlifted  veil 

That  hid  the  coming  years,  he  saw  the  bleak, 
Wild  mount  whence,  from  afar,  is  viewed  the  reek 

Of  that  huge  town  whose  factories  taint  the  gale  : 

He  saw  the  ample  space  marked  out,  enclosing 
That  sacred  spot,  remote  from  haunts  of  man, 

Where,  raised  on  high,  upon  a  scale  imposing, 
Courts  into  cloisters  and  quadrangles  ran  : 
There,  in  dear  England's  heart,  he  saw 
That  noble  fane  without  a  flaw — 


Sons  'round  it,  yearning  there  to  rally 
Under  the  same  most  sweet  and  powerful  name, 

Of  old  its  strength  and  solace  in  the  valley, 
The  mere  invoking  which  unfurls  an  oriflam'e  ! — 
Thus  rose  as  from  a  patriarch's  prayerful  dream, 

Here,  on  our  well-loved  island's  central  height, 
This  pharos  of  pure  culture,  whence  aye  stream 
The  rays  of  learning — kindling,  to  set  free, 
The  triple  beams  of  Faith,  Hope,  Charity  ! — 

Oh,  God  !  ne'er  quench  its  heavenly  beacon-light — 
But  gird  and  guard  its  life  with  love  supreme  ! 

CHARLES  KENT. 
Athenaeum  Club,  London,  May,  1888. 


Qutnquagcstmum  annum  Carmen  seculare. 


Qualis  in  silvis  generosa  quercus, 
Stirpe  defixa  validisque  ramis, 
A.eque  ventorum  rabies  et  imbrem 
Sustinet  aeque : 

Nee  minus  forma  tamen  atque  laetis 
Frondibus  surgit,  magis  et  diurnis 
Viribus  crescit,  Zephyris  et  almo 
Sole  favente. 

Talis  annorum  vicibus  citatis 
— Quinque  bis  lustris  bene  jam  peractis- 
Nostra  permansit  domus  :  O  supersit 
Talis  in  aevum ! 

Corda  festivum  patribus  replevit 
Gaudium,  quod  tune  operum  labores 
Rite  confectos  oculis  videbant 
Rite  sacratos. 

Hie  dies  festus  rediens  per  annos 
Eximit  curas ;  memoresque  reddit, 
Quanta  sic  nobis  benefacta  praestet 
Rector  Olympi. 

Is  enim  cursum  regit  institutum, 
Nee  honestae  spem  subolis  fefellit, 
Saepe  quae  vultus  referat  recensque 
Nomen  avorum. 

Quid  prius  dicam  merito  decore  ? 
Unus  e  nostris — memr~are  oportet — 
Purpura  fulget  rutilique  coetus 
Veste  superba. 


Plurimos  vero  veneranda  fecit 
Mitra  praeclaros,  quibus  enitescit 
Haud  minus  gemmis  nitido  vel  auro 
Lucida  virtus. 

Nulla  sed  vitae  ratio  reperta, 
Alma  quin  mater  videat  suorum 
Laudibus  pulcram  ;  modo  si  recenset 
Ordine  natos. 

Blanda  nam  mundi,  simul  ac  rescivit, 
Impigre  quidam  strenueque  calcat, 
Alter  in  mundi  rigida  palaestra 
Fert  sibi  palmam. 

Miles  inventus,  pius  et  sacerdos, 
Atque  qui  docto  nitet  in  senatu : 
Aequa  sors  nostram  docilem  revisat 
Saepe  juventam ! 

Dentur  aequales  patribus  nepotes  ! 
Aedibus  Numen  faveat  benignum  ! 
Voce  dum  justa  canimus  verentes 
Carmina  caelo. 

Mitis  aspectu  facies  serenae 
Virginis  longum  radiet  per  aevum, 
Cujus  insignes  pietas  honores 
Laudibus  ornat. 

Quare  nunc  gratis  animis  colamus 
Praesidem  mundi  memores  supremum, 
Firmiter  qui  res  moderatur  omnes 
Ipse  perennis. 

ALFRED  HERBERT. 
A.D,  MDCCCLXXXVIII 


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SBirb  eg  ber  3«ten  Ungunfl  itOcnvinben, 
Unb  ivenn  ber  Unban!  i^m  bie  £reue  fcrirtu, 
3m  fungern  9tad)n?ud;g  neue  5'reunbe  ftnben  : 
2)er  liebc  @ott  verlapt  @ein  Dgcott  nidit." 

JUmeu. 


II 


Souoemrs. 

Voici  la  fete  jubilaire, 
Vingt  lustres  se  sont  ecoules. 
Sous  ton  egide  tutelair'e 
Tu  reunis  tes  fils  aimes. 
Oscott !  Pourquoi  cette  allegresse  ? 
Tout  respire  joie  et  tendresse. 
C'est  que  vers  ce  lieu  enchanteur 
Si  plein  de  lendres  souvenirs, 
De  lemons,  de  paix,  de  loisirs, 
Chacun  revient  avec  bonheur. 

Au  loin  domine  ta  tour  grise, 
Ou  si  souvent  nos  yeux  d'enfant 
Se  fixaient,  pour  voir  si  la  brise 
Ne  bergait  ton  etendard  blanc. 
Alors,  chacun  courrait  le  voir, 
Car  c'etait  conge  jusqu'au  soir. 
Et  Ton  partait,  des  le  matin, 
Gais  et  dispos  en  excursion, 
Soit  a  Lichfield,  soit  a  Sutton, 
Et  1'on  riait  tant  en  chemin  ! 

Salut  a  toi,  bois  se"culaire, 
Qui  nous  a  longtemps  ombrage, 
Temoin  muet  et  solitaire 
De  ce  bon  vieux  jeu  de  Bande — 
Cest  la  qu'ont  pris  leurs  ebats 
Des  cardinaux,  princes,  soldats. 


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L'histoire  en  a  grave  les  noms. 
Les  uns  sont  morts  au  champ  d'honneur, 
D'autres  proscrits  dans  le  malheur, 
Coveny,  de  Lisle  et  Bourbons.* 

Mais  d'autres  chanteront  ta  gloire. 
Pour  moi,  vers  mon  passe"  riant, 
Quand  je  laisse  errer  ma  memoire, 
Je  me  rappelle  un  nom  charmant. 
Oscott !  en  ce  beau  jour  de  fete, 
D'un  trop  aventureux  poete 
Pardonne  le  vol  audacieux, 
Regois  done  mes  plus  doux  souhaits ; 
Qu'il  brille  ton  nom  a  jamais 
Entoure  d'un  sceptre  radieux  ! 

D.  H.  G. 


*  Charles  Coveny  et  de  Lisle,  tous  deux  anciens  Sieves  d'Oscott,  furent 
lues  dans  la  desastreuse  campagne  du  Soudan. 


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Oscott 

Parfois,  lorsque  le  soir,  un  beau  ciel  etoile 

Me  verse  avec  la  paix  la  douce  souvenance, 

Vers  toi,  maison  d'Oscott !  maison  de  mon  enfance, 

Mon  esprit  s'en  retourne,  ainsi  qu'un  exile. 

C'est  que  je  t'ai  laisse  le  meilleur  de  ma  vie, 

La  premiere  tristesse  et  le  premier  plaisir, 

Qui  font  que  tous  tes  fils,  rien  qu'  a  ton  souvenir, 

Vivent  un  peu  d'exil  meme  dans  leur  patrie. 

Oscott !  pardonne  moi,  qu'en  ce  jour  glorieux, 
J'ose  meler  un  peu  de  tristesse  a  ta  gloire ; 
C'est  que  ta  gloire  meme  evoque  en  ma  memoire 
Tout  ce  que  je  perdis  en  devenant  plus  vieux. 
Jadis  j'etais  heureux  quand>  berce"  par  la  brise, 
L'etendard  blanc  flottait ;  helas  !  je  suis  bien  pres 
De  pleurer  a  present,  en  songeant  qu'  a  jamais 
Ta  banniere,  pour  moi,  flotte  sur  la  tour  grise. 

Mais  pourquoi  ces  regrets,  alors  que  notre  voix 
Devrait  monter  au  ciel  en  une  hymne  de  fete  ? 
Oscott !  je  veux  aimer  la  gloire  qui  t'est  faite, 
Je  veux  m'en  rejouir,  et,  tout  comme  autrefois, 
Lorsque  j'etais  enfant,  etre  joyeux  encore, 
Jeune  de  mon  courage  et  fort  de  mon  amour, 
Je  veux  unir  ma  joie  aux  hymnes  de  ce  jour 
Et  feter,  avec  toi,  ta  glorieuse  aurore. 

X. 


"  Melior  est  dies  una  in  atriis  tuis  super  millia." — Ps.  83. 

II  est  en  Angleterre,  On  dit  que  dans  sa  fuite, 

Ignore  des  Frangais,  Un  fameux  souverain 

Un  petit  coin  de  terre,  Y  decouvrit  bon  gite, 

Venere  des  Anglais.  En  son  triste  chagrin. 


Cette  petite  histoire 
N'est  pas  assurement 

Ce  qui  couvre  de  gloire 
Le  village  charmant ; 

II  est,  en  son  feuillage, 

Un  college  fameux 
Qui  d'Oscott-le-village 

Est  le  point  lumineux. 

Sur  le  sol  britannique, 
Cette  sainte  maison 

A  la  foi  catholique 
Donne  la  garnison, 

Et  fut  la  premiere 

Qui,  nonobstant  le  roi, 

Dans  1'ile  d'Angleterre 
Apprit  de  Dieu  la  loi. 

Combien  depuis  dix  lustres 
Son  pieux  enseignement 

Donna  de  noms  illustres, 
Est  merveilleux  vraiment. 

Wiseman,  le  grand  sage, 
Qui  fut  un  des  recteurs, 

Laissa  son  heritage 
A  de  savants  docteurs. 

Pour  le  moment,  Guillaume, 
Le  digne  et  saint  prelat 

De  Birmingham,  y  chome, 
Loin  des  mondains  tracas. 

Dans  ce  grand  se"minaire, 

On  eleva  prelat, 
Financier,  militaire, 

Architecte,  avocat. 


La  meme  reprimande, 
Le  meme  enseignement, 

Forme  le  Lord  d'Irlande 
Qui  lutte  au  Parlement, 

Et  le  pauvre  vicaire 
Qui  vit  dans  un  comte, 

D'une  fac.on  austere 
De  par  sa  volonte. 

Mais  dans  son  existence, 
Quelque  soit  le  pouvoir 

Auquel  obeissance 

L'Oscotien  peut  devoir, 

Toujours  en  sa  memoire 
Est  grave  le  doux  nom 

Qui,  tout  couvert  de  gloire, 
Me>ite  son  renom. 

Honneur  a  ce  college 
Qui,  depuis  cinquante  ans, 

Fut  toujours  le  siege 
Des  Chretiens  militans  ! 

Gloire  a  ce  seminaire, 
Berceau  de  pieux  soldats, 

Qui,  malgre  1'arbitraire, 
Bravent  les  apostats  ! 

Haut  phare  de  lumiere, 
Brille  dans  Tavenir ! 

Sur  le  roc  de  Saint  Pierre, 
On  te  verra  surgir, 

Re'pandant  dans  le  monde 
Les  clarte's  de  la  foi 

Et  la  vertu  fe"conde 
De  la  divine  loi. 


E.  D.  B. 


delebrcmbost  il  dnquantcsimo  cmnipersario 
bella  ^onbc^tonc  bel  Collegto  3ta,  ZHarta  in  0scott 


Son  dieci  lustri,  ah  sian  pur  cento  e  mille  ! 
Che  protetto  dal  ciel  sorgevi,  o  sacro 
Tempio  di  civilta,  nobil  palladio 
Di  scienza  e  d'  arte  ;  ed  oggi  ben  mertato 
Plauso  si  leva  a  te  d'  intorno.     Oh  come 
lo  vate  esser  vorrei  perchk  di  lodi 
Tesser  potessi  un  picciol  serto  anch'  io  ! 
Un  anno  e  gia  che  il  mio  buon  fato  addusse 
Me  pure  entro  sue  mura  ;  eppur  talora 
Ripenso  ai  luoghi  dell'  Italia  mia, 
Al  suo  limpido  cielo,  alle  colline, 
Ai  fiori,  all'  erbe.del  mio  suol  natio, 
Dove  appresi  ad  amar,  fanciullo,  il  santo 
Nome  di  patria,  dove  nascer  vidi 
Giorni  felici,  e  piii  felici  ancora 
Cader  tramonti  ;  la  dove  incessanti 
M'  ebbi  le  cure  d'  una  nonna  amata, 
D'  una  madre  gentile  e  d'  una  suora 
A  me  diletta,  dove  1'  adorata 
Salma  sen  giace  dell'  estinto  padre, 
Ahi  troppo  presto  dal  crudele  fato 
All'  amor  mio  rapito  !  e  allor  tremenda 
Smania  m'  assal  di  riveder  quei  luoghi 
Di  si  sante  memorie,  e  ai  lieti  e  cari 
Giorni  tornar  e  a  quelle  ore  tranquille 
Vissute  in  braccio  a  Roma  mia  !     Ma  il  duolo 
Scompare  sol  che  il  pensier  mio  sen  rieda 
All'  ospitale  ostello,  ove  mi  trovo 


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Di  questa  vaga  Albione,  ed  un  ardente 
Desk)  mi  punge  d?  imitar  quei  grandi 
Che  qui  pure  albergar.     Oscott !  o  grata 
Dimora  mia  !  qui  dove  ognor  la  mente 
Ai  sublimi  ideali  si  dischiude 
Di  scienza  e  d'  arte,  qui  dove  di  tanti, 
Ch'  or  son  lustro  ed  onor  dell'  anglo  suolo, 
S'  ebbe  a  educare  il  giovinetto  core 
Salve  !     Cosi  d'  uscirne  degno  un  giorno 
Di  lor,  che  tanto  a  coltivarmi  intenti 
Sono,  mi  fia  concesso  !     E  se  la  prece 
Di  mia  giovine  vita  udisse  il  cielo, 
Possa  tal  giorno  cento  volte  e  cento 
Per  te  di  nuovi  allori  ognor  fecondo 
Rinuovellarsi.     fi  questo  il  mio  sincere 
Voto,  che  m'  arde  in  petto,  e  quale  ambiva 
Certo  chi  un  di  t'  eresse,  e  a  cui  dovevi 
Restar  di  gloria  eterno  monumento. 

S.  S. 


©16  cm6  Hers  ©scott 


THE  fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  foundation  of  the 
building  which  is  known  to  us  as  New  Oscott  suggests 
a  comparison  between  the  present  handsome  collegiate 
structure,  with  all  its  surroundings  of  educational  com- 
pleteness, and  the  humble  and  almost  insignificant 
premises  which  were  dignified  fifty  years  ago  with  the 
name  of  St.  Mary's  College.  The  present  building  of 
New  Oscott  may  challenge  comparison  with  most,  if  not 
all,  of  the  same  class  in  this  country.  Commanding 
in  its  situation,  noble  and  picturesque  in  its  design, 
convenient  and  well-planned  in  its  details,  Oscott  is  a 
model  of  what  a  Catholic  College  ought  to  be.  Founded 
upon  the  plan  of  those  venerable  abodes  of  learning  at 
Oxford  and  Cambridge,  which  were  erected  by  our 
Catholic  ancestors  centuries  ago,  it  unites  all  the  best 
features  of  a  medieval  college  with  the  improvements 
rendered  necessary  by  modern  requirements.  The  lofty 
halls,  the  spacious  corridors,  the  numerous  and  well- 
appointed  class-rooms,  combine  with  the  stately  library 
and  the  devotional  and  chastely-decorated  chapel,  to  form 
a  group  worthy  of  a  Catholic  College,  while  the  long  line 
of  terrace,  with  the  commanding  tower  surmounted  by 
the  flag  of  St.  George,  looks  down  upon  the  neighbour 
town  of  Birmingham  with  a  picturesque  dignity  hardly 
surpassed  in  England. 

From  this  imposing  structure  to  the  humble  and 
unpretending  building  which  we  know  as  Old  Oscott  is 
indeed  a  leap ;  and  it  needs  all  the  power  of  imagination, 
aided  by  our  knowledge  of  the  past,  to  bridge  over  the 
gulf.  Yet,  in  its  time,  the  old  College  was  a  great  work  ; 
and  it  is  not  easy  at  the  present  day  to  realise  what  it 


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must  have  seemed  to  our  ancestors  a  century  ago.  In 
1788  it  would  have  been  deemed  the  height  of  rashness, 
indeed  a  degree  of  folly  bordering  on  madness,  to  have 
imagined,  much  more  planned,  an  educational  building 
even  approaching  that  in  which  it  is  now  our  privilege 
to  meet.  Severe  statutes  had  forced  our  Catholic 
ancestors  to  seek  abroad  the  learning  which  was  denied 
them,  under  heavy  penalties,  at  home.  In  France  or  the 
Low  Countries  they  might  indeed  find  schools  and  semi- 
naries of  ample  size  and  noble  design ;  but  in  England, 
at  that  period,  a  Catholic  school  was  a  rare  thing,  and 
the  now  venerable  institution  of  Sedgley  Park  was,  a 
hundred  years  ago,  almost  alone  as  an  educational  estab- 
lishment Such  might  have  continued  to  be  the  condition 
of  matters  in  this  country  for  many  years  longer  had  not 
an  event  occurred  which  was  as  sudden  in  its  outbreak  as  it 
was  violent  and  irresistible  in  its  operation.  The  torrent 
of  the  French  Revolution  swept  before  it  churches  and 
colleges,  abbeys,  and  the  mansions  of  the  nobility  in  one 
common  flood,  and  it  could  not  be  expected  that  the 
property  of  foreigners  should  fare  better  than  the  posses- 
sions of  the  natives  of  France.  Douay  and  St.  Omer's, 
Bornhem  and  Liege,  were  included  in  the  universal  ruin, 
and  by  the  end  of  1793  the  English  Catholics  found 
themselves  almost  without  any  provision  for  the  education 
of  their  youth.  Sedgley  Park  indeed  existed,  but  that 
could  not  suffice  for  the  whole  of  England,  and  each 
ecclesiastical  district  naturally  required  a  seminary  of  its 
own.  It  is  well  known  how,  by  degrees,  the  wants  of  the 
Catholic  youth  were  provided  for — how  Ushaw  and 
Stonyhurst  and  Old  Hall  Green,  not  to  mention  Down- 
side and  Ampleforth  sprang,  one  by  one,  from  various 
humble  beginnings,  forming  the  several  links  by  which 
the  old  seminaries  on  the  Continent  were  connected  with 
the  educational  establishments  of  the  present  day.  It  is 
here  the  time  and  the  place  to  treat  of  the  earliest  of 
these  new  foundations,  and  one  which  has  developed  into 
not  the  least  important  of  our  modern  Catholic  colleges. 


The   history   of  St. .  Mary's    College   has    been    ably 
treated    in    recent    numbers   of    the   Oscotian,   and    the 
learned  author  of  that  interesting  chronicle  will  doubtless 
pardon  the  writer  if  he  retraces  succinctly  the  leading 
events  in  the  early  annals  of  Oscott.    We  first  meet  with 
the  name  of  Oscott  (or  Auscot,  as  it  is  spelt  in  Camden's 
"Britannia"),    towards   the    close    of    the    seventeenth 
century,  when   it  was  the  property  of  the  Rev.  Andrew 
Bromwich,   an    alumnus    of   Lisbon,  who,   having   been 
convicted  of  priesthood  in  the  frenzy  of  Gates'  plot,  was 
thrown   into    Stafford    gaol,  and    condemned    to   death. 
His   execution,   says    Husenbeth,   seems   to  have   been 
overlooked,  or  his  release  connived  at,  for  we  find  that 
he  returned  to  his  property  at  Oscott,  and  spent  the  rest 
of  his  life  in  tending  to  the  wants  of  the  small  body 
of    neighbouring    Catholics.      This    venerable   confessor 
survived  till  the  i$th  of  October,  1702  ;  an  antique  chair 
formerly  used  by  him  has  been  carefully  preserved,  and 
may  be  seen  in  the  museum  of  the  new  College.    Several 
priests  succeeded  Mr.  Bromwich  at  Oscott,  till  the  Rev. 
Pierce  Parry  took  charge  of  the  mission  in  1752.     It  is 
from  this  period    that  the   actual   building   of  the  old 
College  dates  its  origin.     About  the  year  1752   Bishop 
Hornyold,  coadjutor  to  Dr.  Stonor,  Vicar  Apostolic  of 
the  Midland  District,  built,  by  subscription,  a  new  house 
at  Oscott,  to  which  he  himself  contributed  the  sum  of 
one  hundred  pounds.     The  object  of  this  building  seems 
to  have  been  to  form  a  home  for  the  Vicars  Apostolic,  in 
case   the  episcopal  residence   at    Longbirch   should   be 
abandoned.     This  house  was  erected  on  the  site  of  the 
old   building   of  the   Rev.   Andrew   Bromwich,   and    it 
appears  to  have  been  a  very  plain  building.     In  the  top 
story   was    the  chapel,    extending   westward    along  the 
whole  front  of  the  house.     However,  shortly  after  1778, 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Parry  built  a  new  chapel  on  the  east  side 
of  the  house,  with  a  room  over  it  for  a  dormitory,  and 
this  is  substantially  the  chapel  now  in  use.     Mr.  Parry 
became,  in  time,  unfit  for  duty,  and    retired   from    the 


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mission  in  1785.  He  was  succeeded  by  a  priest  whose 
name  is  one  of  the  best  known  in  the  annals  of  modern 
Catholicity  in  England.  In  the  summer  of  1785  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Berington  was  appointed  by  Bishop  Talbot 
to  the  quiet  mission  of  Oscott,  the  secluded  situation  of 
which  was  favourable  to  his  literary  pursuits,  and  here 
the  greater  number  of  his  works  was  composed. 

Mr.  Berington  took  an  interest  in  the  place,  and 
employed  his  leisure  in  laying  out  the  grounds  with 
shrubs,  besides  training  roses  and  climbing  plants  against 
the  walls.  A  contemporary  writer,*  who  often  visited 
Mr.  Berington,  has  described  the  picturesque  beauty  of 
the  grounds,  which  were  kept  "  in  that  trim  order  united 
with  elegance  which  formed  the  especial  characteristic 
of  Mr.  Berington."  This  tasteful  shrubbery  was  ruth- 
lessly swept  away  to  make  place  for  the  new  playground  ; 
but  its  memory  was  long  kept  up  by  the  early  Oscotians 
under  the  designation  of  "  The  Garden."  The  front  of 
the  house  was  decorated  with  a  three-sided  porch, 
furnished  with  seats,  above  which  was  a  room  with  a 
bow  window  forming  Mr.  Berington's  study.  Over  the 
fireplace  in  the  dining-room  was  the  following  quotation 
from  the  book  of  Proverbs  : — "  Melius  est  vocari  ad 
olera  cum  charitate  quam  ad  vitulum  saginatum  cum 
odio."  Mr.  Berington's  relative,  the  bishop,  also  resided 
at  Oscott  from  his  consecration  in  1786  till  about  the 
year  1792.  In  1793  the  Rev.  Joseph  Berington  left 
Oscott  and  became  chaplain  to  Sir  John  Throckmorton 
at  Buckland,  where  he  remained  till  his  death  in  1827  ; 
but  he  not  unfrequently  paid  a  visit  to  his  former  mission 
after  it  had  become  a  college,  and  he  preached  occasion- 
ally before  the  boys.  Dr.  Husenbeth  suggests  that  it 
was  in  listening  to  Mr.  Berington  that  young  Weedall, 
the  future  president,  laid  the  foundation  of  that  grand 
talent  of  pulpit  eloquence  by  which  he  was  afterwards 
so  distinguished. 

*  Mrs.  Schimmelpenninck,  nee  Gallon. 


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The  departure  of  Mr.  Berington  from  Oscott  was  the 
forerunner  of  a  great  change  in  the  history  of  this 
hitherto  obscure  and  secluded  mission.  The  state  of 
affairs  on  the  Continent  during  the  year  1793  was 
becoming  more  and  more  threatening,  and  it  was  abun- 
dantly clear  that  before  long  all  British  subjects  must 
expect  either  imprisonment  and  death  or  expulsion  from 
the  territories  of  the  French  Republic.  Hence,  about 
this  time  a  strong  desire  was  felt  among  the  Catholic 
body  in  England  for  the  establishment  of  a  place  of 
education  in  this  country  which  might  supply,  in  some 
degree,  the  loss  of  our  schools  on  the  Continent.  To 
carry  out  this  design,  a  committee  of  laymen  was  formed 
in  conjunction  with  the  Vicars  Apostolic,  who,  on  their 
part,  were  anxious  to  provide  some  sort  of  seminary  for 
the  education  of  the  clergy.  This  twofold  design  was 
carried  out  in  the  foundation  of  Oscott ;  but  the  first 
movement  was  on  the  side  of  the  bishops,  who  were 
largely  influenced  in  their  choice  of  a  locality  by  the 
Revs.  Joseph  Berington  and  John  Kirk.  The  latter  was 
an  old  Douay  student,  who  was  then  living  at  Sedgley 
Park  as  president,  and  to  him  Dr.  Husenbeth  ascribes 
the  credit  of  first  suggesting  to  the  bishops  in  the 
Midland  district  the  selection  of  Oscott  for  their  projected 
seminary.*  A  correspondence  between  Mr.  Kirk  and 
his  friend  Mr.  Berington  shows  that  the  latter  shared  the 
views  of  Mr.  Kirk  on  this  subject.  "  Mr.  Kirk,"  says 
Husenbeth,  "  while  serving  the  mission  of  Oscott  in  the 
autumn  of  1793,  went  over  to  Longbirch  and  suggested 
to  Bishop  Talbot  and  his  coadjutor,  Bishop  Berington, 
that  the  Rev.  Dr.  Bew  should  be  placed  at  Oscott,  where 
he  might  educate  a  few  students  for  the  Church."  After 
some  deliberation  the  bishops  adopted  Mr.  Kirk's  pro- 
posal, and  before  long  a  prospectus  of  the  new  seminary 

*  Dr.  Kirk  died  at  Lichfield  December  2ist,  1851,  at  the  patriarchal 
age  of  91.  He  had  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  in  1840  from 
Pope  Gregory  XVI.  His  memoir,  written  by  his  pupil,  Dr.  Weedall.  may 
be  read  in  the  "  Catholic  Directory  "  for  1853. 


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was  issued.  The  first  provision  was  limited  to  the  edu- 
cation of  six  ecclesiastical  students  ;  accordingly,  in 
February,  1794,  Dr.  Bew  took  up  his  abode  at  Oscott 
and  began  the  future  college  of  St.  Mary's  with  a  single 
pupil  professedly  for  the  Church,  who  was  shortly  after- 
wards followed  by  two  others.  It  seems  probable,  says 
Father  Amherst,  that  some  time  in  the  summer  of  1794 
the  design  of  establishing  a  lay  college  was  amalgamated 
with  the  plan  of  the  new  seminary,  for  in  August  of  that 
year  the  first  lay  student,  Charles  Browne  Mostyn,  arrived 
at  Oscott.  In  the  following  October  appeared  a  pros- 
pectus setting  out  the  terms  and  regulations  of  the 
projected  college,  and  on  the  feast  of  All  Saints  the  now 
mixed  establishment  was  opened  with  five  students. 

With  Dr.  Bew  was  joined  the  Rev.  Thomas  Potts  as 
Vice-President,  and  it  will  be  pleasant  to  give  a  short 
sketch  of  the  history  of  these  the  first  Superiors  of  Oscott. 
The  Rev.  John  Bew,  D.D.  was  born  in  London  in  1755  ; 
he  was  educated  at  Sedgley  Park  and  Douay,  and  at  the 
age  of  twenty  one  was  removed  to  the  English  Seminary 
of  St.  Gregory,  at  Paris,  where  he  took  his  degree  of  D.D. 
in  1786.  For  a  time  he  acted  as  President  of  the  Seminary, 
but  was  forced  by  the  outbreak  of  the  French  revolution 
to  return  to  England.  As  already  stated  Dr.  Bew  came 
to  Oscott  in  1794  and  governed  the  College  from  that 
year  till  1808,  when  he  resigned  his  office.  Two  years 
later  he  took  charge  of  the  mission  of  Brighton,  where  he 
remained  till  1817,  when  he  accepted  the  office  of 
President  at  Old  Hall  Green.  His  stay  here  however  was 
very  short,  and  after  returning  for  a  few  months  to 
Brighton  he  passed  the  remaining  ten  years  of  his  life  at 
Havant,  where  he  died  October  25th,  1829.  For  some 
time  Dr.  Bew  acted  as  Vicar-General  to  Bishop  Berington, 
after  whose  death,  in  1798,  he  governed  the  midland  dis- 
trict till  the  appointment  of  Bishop  Stapleton  in  1801.  If 
we  may  judge  from  the  rather  meagre  details  of  Dr.  Bew's 
character  which  have  come  down  to  us  he  seems  to  have 
been  an  amiable  man  and  a  refined  scholar,  but  Husenbeth 


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says  of  him — "  Dr.  Bew  understood  better  the  manage- 
ment of  religious  and  educational  affairs  than  the  adminis- 
tration of  temporalities." 

The  Rev.  Thomas  Potts  was  a  man  whose  name  is  not 
likely  to  be  forgotten  by  Oscotians.  His  ruling  principle, 
says  Fr.  Amherst,  was  the  dictum  of  Solomon,  that  "  he 
who  spareth  the  rod  hateth  his  son."  Hence  he  earned 
for  himself  an  enduring  reputation  as  a  sturdy  maintainer 
of  discipline.  This  was  not  however  Mr.  Potts'  only 
qualification.  He  was  a  sound  classical  scholar  and  an 
able  teacher,  and  his  eminent  pupil  Henry  Weedall  after- 
wards said  of  him  that  "  Mr.  Potts  conducted  the  classical 
studies  of  that  house  with  a  grandeur  of  ability  peculiarly 
his  own,  and  a  vigour  and  enthusiasm  which  will  long  be 
remembered."  Mr.  Potts  belonged  to  an  old  Staffordshire 
stock,  his  family  being  allied  to  the  Whitgreaves  of 
Moseley.  He  was  sent  at  an  early  age  to  Douay  where 
he  remained  till  1780,  when  he  returned  to  England.  For 
one  year  he  served  the  mission  of  Brailes,  and  from  1781 
till  his  arrival  at  Oscott  was  chaplain  to  Mr.  Turville  of 
Bosworth. 

Under  the  charge  of  these  able  superiors  the  infant 
College  made  good  progress,  and  by  the  time  that  what 
is  called  "the  old  government"  came  to  an  end,  124 
students  had  passed  through  its  walls.  Of  this  number 
three  deserve  especial  mention,  namely,  Francis  Martyn, 
Charles  Stourton,  and  Henry  Weedall.  Of  the  first  of 
these  Father  Amherst  remarks  :  "  The  name  of  Francis 
Martyn  is  a  remarkable  one,  not  only  in  the  history  of 
Oscott,  but  in  the  history  of  English  Catholics.  He  was 
the  first  priest  who  had  been  entirely  educated  in  England 
since  the  Reformation."  Mr.  Martyn,  who  was  thus  the 
first  fruit  of  the  new  seminary,  was  ordained  by  Bishop 
Milner  on  the  2ist  of  December,  1805,  and  was  sent  to 
serve  the  mission  at  Bloxwich,  from  which  he  evangelized 
the  districts  of  Walsall,  West  Bromwich,  Stourbridge, 
Bilston,  and  Dudley.  "  He  was  a  man,"  continues  Father 
Amherst,  "  eminently  full  of  zeal,  and  Oscott  has  reason 
to  be  proud  of  the  first  priest  sent  out  from  its  walls/' 


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Charles  Stourton  was,  in  a  different  way,  a  remarkable 
character.  Afterwards  better  known  as  the  Hon.  Charles 
Langdale,  he  was  the  acknowledged  leader  of  the  English 
Catholic  laity.  He  studied  at  Oscott  from  January, 
1799,  to  August,  1804. 

Of  Henry  Weedall  it  is  unnecessary  to  say  more  than 
that,  in  the  words'  of  Father  Amherst,  "  he  was  destined 
to  become  the  very  life  and  soul  of  the  College,"  and  to 
be  in  later  years  the  founder  of  New  Oscott. 

We  have  now  arrived  at  the  year  1808  ;  the  youthful 
seminary  had  indeed  done  a  good  work,  but  its  condition 
was  not  altogether  satisfactory.  The  number  of  the 
students  might  have  been  larger,  and  a  serious  debt  was 
beginning  to  accumulate.  These  considerations  induced 
the  President  to  think  of  resignation,  and  the  Lay 
Governors  also  deemed  it  prudent  to  place  the  College  in 
other  hands.  The  Committee  accordingly  offered  the 
College,  with  its  property  and  liabilities,  to  the  Right 
Rev.  Dr.  Milner,  who  five  years  before  had  been  conse- 
crated Bishop  of  Castabala  and  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the 
Midland  District.  "  Dr.  Milner,"  says  Husenbeth,  "  at 
first  hesitated  at  a  proposal  which,  though  it  appeared  on 
one  hand  extremely  eligible,  had  a  formidable  aspect  on 
the  other,  on  account  of  its  attendant  difficulties.  He 
consulted  his  Vicar-General,  the  Rev.  John  Perry,  a  man 
of  distinguished  zeal  and  piety  seasoned  with  great 
wisdom  and  discretion,  and  by  his  advice  determined  to 
accept  the  offer."  The  transfer  to  Bishop  Milner  took 
place  in  the  summer  of  1808,  and  thus  ended  the  "Old 
Government"  of  Oscott.  "This,"  continues  Husenbeth, 
"  was  a  momentous  enterprise  for  the  illustrious  Bishop. 
But  he  was  not  a  man  to  shrink  from  any  undertaking 
however  arduous,  by  which  the  good  of  religion  could  be 
promoted.  He  put  his  broad  shoulder  to  the  wheel,  and 
entered  with  heroic  courage  upon  his  arduous  under- 
taking. He  began  by  placing  his  College  under  the 
sublime  patronage  of  the  glorious  Mother  of  God  ;  it 
was  henceforth  to  be  called,  and  has  ever  since  been 
known  as  St.  Mary's  College." 


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The  influence  of  Dr.  Milner  has  been  impressed  upon 
Oscott  in  many  ways.  He  spent  much  of  his  time  at  the 
College,  and  it  was  one  of  his  chief  pleasures  to  retire 
thither  from  the  cares  and  turmoil  of  public  life.  He 
improved  the  construction  and  arrangement  of  the  Chapel, 
and  was  the  first  to  introduce  into  England  the  public 
Devotion  to  the  Sacred  Heart  of  Jesus.  "  During  the 
year  1814,"  says  Fr.  Amherst,  "  BisnopMilner  paid  a  visit 
to  Rome  and  saw  the  Holy  Father  Pius  the  Seventh,  who 
had  then  but  lately  returned  from  his  captivity  in  France. 
He  petitioned  his  Holiness  for  certain  privileges  to  be 
attached  to  a  sodality  of  the  Sacred  Heart  which  he  was 
anxious  to  enrol.  On  his  return  he  established  the 
sodality  at  Oscott,  and  not  long  afterwards  he  set  up  in 
the  College  Chapel  an  altar  to  the  Sacred  Heart,  which 
was  the  first  publicly  so  dedicated  in  this  country." 
Milner  also  watched  over  the  material  progress  of  the 
College.  Shortly  after  he  had  become  the  proprietor  of 
St.  Mary's  he  erected  a  new  building  which  was  after- 
wards known  as  the  "  Laura,"  and  which  contained  rooms 
for  the  elder  church  students  and  divines ;  it  was 
however  removed  when  Old  Oscott  ceased  to  be  a 
college.  In  1815  the  Bishop  carried  out  a  much  more 
extensive  improvement :  namely,  the  ambulacrum  and 
colonnade,  with  an  apartment  above  which  was  used  for 
exhibitions.  This  handsome  and  substantial  addition  to 
the  College  was  much  admired,  and  is  still  in  existence, 
with  the  exception  of  the  upper  room,  which  was 
unfortunately  burned  down  on  the  ist  of  February,  1860. 

When  Dr.  Milner  entered  into  possession  of  Oscott  we 
have  seen  that  Dr.  Bew  retired  from  the  presidency ; 
his  place  was  taken  by  the  vice-president,  Mr.  Potts, 
who,  in  his  turn,  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Walsh,  the  future  bishop.  Mr.  Walsh,  who  was  of  Irish 
extraction,  was  born  in  London  in  October,  1766,  and 
was  sent  to  the  English  college  at  St.  Omer's,  where  he 
attracted  the  notice  of  Dr.  Gregory  Stapleton,  the  presi- 
dent. Driven  from  St.  Omer's  by  the  French  Revolution, 


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Mr.  Walsh  continued  his  studies  at  Old  Hall  Green, 
again  under  Dr.  Stapleton,  now  the  head  of  that  institu- 
tion. When  the  latter  became  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the 
Midland  District,  in  1801,  he  took  Mr.  Walsh  with  him 
to  Longbirch  as  his  secretary,  and  the  succeeding  bishop, 
Milner,  appointed  him  Vice-President  of  Sedgley  Park. 
From  this  honourable  position  he  was  summoned  to  fill 
the  corresponding  post  at  Oscott,  and  he  was  also 
entrusted  with  the  spiritual  department  of  the  college. 
The  care  of  the  temporalities  was  confided  to  the  Rev. 
John  Francis  Quick,  a  zealous  convert  from  Devonshire, 
who,  on  Mr.  Potts'  incapacity  in  1816,  undertook  the 
management  of  all  the  business  affairs  of  the  house.  In 
the  year  1818  the  bishop  sustained  a  very  severe  loss  in 
the  death  of  Mr.  Quick,  who  had  literally  worn  out  his 
strength.  On  receiving  the  tidings  of  his  decease,  Dr. 
Milner  was  filled  with  grief,  and  exclaimed,  "  I  have  lost 
my  right  hand  !  "  Mr.  Walsh  stepped  into  the  position 
lately  filled  by  Mr.  Quick,  and  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Potts, 
which  ensued  December  5th,  1819,  he  became  the 
actual  President  of  Oscott.  A  few  months  before,  he 
had  been  appointed  vicar  general  in  succession  to  the 
Rev.  John  Perry,  deceased. 

In  1825  Bishop  Milner,  feeling  his  health  decline, 
applied  to  the  Holy  See  for  a  coadjutor.  He  took 
occasion  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  clergy  at  Sedgley 
Park  to  announce  this  step.  "  The  good  Bishop,"  says 
Husenbeth,  ''  spoke  feelingly  of  his  declining  health,  and 
said,  in  faint  and  mournful  accents,  that  he  felt  himself 
going  the  way  of  all  flesh,  which  made  him  anxious 
to  secure  a  coadjutor."  The  President  of  Oscott  was 
accordingly  consecrated  to  that  high  office  on  the  1st 
of  May.  This  was  only  the  prelude  to  the  departure  of 
the  great  and  good  Vicar  Apostolic.  The  ipth  of  April, 
1826,  was  the  sorrowful  day  on  which  he  was  called  out 
of  this  world.  In  the  same  month  in  which  Dr.  Milner 
died  appeared  the  first  number  of  the  Oscotian,  which 
most  appropriately  contained  an  obituary  notice  of  the 


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second  founder  of  the  College.  We  quote  from  the 
youthful  magazine  the  following  tribute  to  the  illustrious 
Bishop  :  "  To  say  that  it  is  with  feelings  of  regret  that 
we  record  the  decease  of  our  Right  Reverend  Pastor 
would  be  a  cold  tribute  to  the  memory  of  one  who 
deserves  so  much.  Words  are  inadequate  to  the  task  of 
rendering  due  homage  to  so  revered  a  character,  and  his 
simple  though  eloquent  epitaph  speaks  more  forcibly 
than  the  most  pompous  declamation  could  effect : — '  Here 
lies  John  Milner.' " 

The  death  of  Bishop  Milner  marks  an  epoch  in  the 
history  of  the  Old  College  which  may  fitly  terminate 
this  brief  summary.  The  succession  of  Bishop  Walsh 
to  the  office  of  Vicar  Apostolic  opened  the  post  of 
President  of  St.  Mary's  to  the  eminent  ecclesiastic  whose 
biography  will  be  found  elsewhere,  and  from  this  time 
the  history  of  Old  Oscott  is  merged  in  the  life  of 
Monsignor  Weedall. 


°f 


THE  Jubilee  of  the  New  College  is  an  occasion  which 
calls  almost  of  necessity  for  a  memoir  of  its  founder. 
The  name  of  that  founder  is  one  which  is  dear  to  every 
Oscotian,  and  with  one  exception  it  is  the  name  that  of  all 
others  is  most  closely  linked  with  the  history  of  Oscott. 
That  exception  is  Milner,  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for 
the  existence  of  Oscott,  if  not  in  its  original  foundation, 
at  least  under  its  traditional  and  time-honoured  title  of 
St.  Mary's  College.  In  the  following  pages  an  attempt 
has  been  made  to  lay  before  the  readers  of  the  Oscotian 
a  picture  of  the  life  and  labours  of  Monsignor  Weedall, 
the  most  distinguished  of  the  sons  of  Oscott,  and  the 
founder  of  the  New  College.  This  memoir  is  chiefly 
drawn  from  the  biography  of  Dr.  Weedall  by  the  late 
Very  Reverend  Frederick  Charles  Husenbeth,  D.D ,  first 
Provost  of  Northampton,  who  was  the  companion  in  boy- 
hoed,  and  the  constant  friend  through  life  of  the  great 
President  of  St.  Mary's. 

Henry  Weedall  was  blessed  with  good  catholic  parents, 
his  father  having  been  a  fellow  student  of  Bishop  Milner 
at  Douay.  The  future  President  of  Oscott  was  born  in 
London  on  the  6th  of  September,  1788,  and  at  the 
unusually  early  age  of  six  was  sent  to  the  well-known 
school  at  Sedgley  Park,  where  he  arrived  on  the  nth  of 
December,  1794.  The  school  was  then  under  the  care  of 
the  Rev.  John  Kirk,  a  venerable  missioner,  who  formed  a 
link  between  the  days  of  the  old  Douay  priests  and  our 
own  more  fortunate  times.  At  the  Park,  little  Weedall 
speedily  gained  the  affection  of  his  masters  and  school- 
mates in  no  common  degree.  "  He  was,"  says  his 
biographer,  "  remarkable  for  his  love  of  neatness  and 


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order ;  he  was  always  cheerful  and  amiable,  and  was 
beloved  by  everyone."  He  is  thus  described  by  a  compan- 
ion : — "  He  was  an  universal  favourite  with  his  Superiors 
and  among  the  boys,  blameless,  gentle,  amiable,  and 
clever."  Henry  made  good  progress  with  his  studies,  and 
was  very  assiduous  with  his  religious  duties ;  hence  he 
was  often  chosen  to  serve  at  the  altar  and  to  perform 
various  little  offices  connected  with,  the  chapel.  It  was  at 
the  Park  that  he  first  made  the  acquaintance  of  Frederick 
Husenbeth,  his  constant  friend  through  life  and  afterwards 
his  biographer. 

After  a  course  of  nine  years  and  a  half  at  Sedgley 
Park,  Henry  Weedall  was  removed,  on  the  nth  of  June, 
1804,  to  Oscott,  then  a  young  and  struggling  seminary 
whose  early  history  has  been  told  in  other  pages.  It  was 
then  under  the  charge  of  the  Rev.  John  Bew,  D.D.,  whose 
name  will  always  be  mentioned  with  respect  as  the  first 
President  of  .Oscott.  The  College  was,  however,  in  less 
than  four  years,  to  pass  under  the  government  of  one 
whose  influence  over  its  future  was  inestimable — the 
illustrious  Bishop  Milner.  Dr.  Milner's  first  act  was  to 
place  the  school  under  the  patronage  of  the  Blessed 
Virgin,  on  the  feast  of  whose  Assumption,  1808,  it  was 
solemnly  re-opened  as  St.  Mary's  College.  The  office  of 
president  was  conferred  on  the  Rev.  Thomas  Potts,  a 
noted  superior,  of  whom  Dr.  Weedall  afterwards  said  : 
"  He  conducted  the  classical  studies  of  that  house  with  a 
grandeur  of  ability  peculiarly  his  own."  The  spiritual 
management  of  the  boys  was  confided  to  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Walsh,  an  exemplary  priest,  who  was  to  be  so  well  known 
in  later  years  as  the  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  Midland  and 
London  Districts.  Of  Mr.  Walsh  his  pupil  was  accus- 
tomed to  say :  "  In  the  management  of  the  spiritual 
department  he  was  supremely  excellent ;  he  combined 
the  devout  ascetic  with  the  practical  missionary,  and 
laboured  to  bring  up  the  young  ecclesiastics  obedient, 
humble,  and  mortified."  Such  were  the  superiors  whose 
influence  was  to  mould  young  Weedall's  character,  and 


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under  whom  he  learned  to  acquire  the  classical  ability 
and  missionary  zeal  for  which  he  was  afterwards  so 
renowned.  He  then  began  that  long  career  of  study  and 
discipline  which  he  was  to  prosecute  at  St.  Mary's  College 
for  the  period  of  thirty-six  years,  first  as  a  diligent  and 
conscientious  student,  next  as  a  painstaking  divine,  and 
lastly  as  a  brilliant  and  successful  president.  Weedall  had, 
however,  to  contend  with  an  obstacle  to  his  progress  in 
his  studies  which  might  well  have  discouraged  a  less 
ardent  and  persevering  student :  from  his  tenth  year  he 
suffered  from  an  obstinate  affection  of  the  eyes  and 
nerves  of  the  head,  which  made  reading  very  difficult  and 
painful,  and  forced  him  to  have  recourse,  for  a  consider- 
able part  of  his  studies,  to  the  assistance  of  a  friend.  It 
is  indeed  wonderful  how,  with  this  serious  drawback,  he 
succeeded  in  amassing  that  store  of  various  learning 
which  he  subsequently  acquired.  Weedall  soon  made  his 
talents  in  the  school  conspicuous  ;  he  entered  heartily 
into  all  the  studies,  and  was  besides  an  active  contributor 
to  the  "  Repository,"  a  receptacle  for  the  literary  contri- 
butions of  the  students.  Several  of  his  early  compositions 
have  been  preserved,  and  they  bear  witness  to  the  activity 
and  liveliness  of  his  mind.  As  an  example  of  the 
thoroughness  with  which  he  performed  everything,  it 
may  be  mentioned  that  he  was  an  adept  at  the  games  in 
which  he  joined  with  enthusiasm,  and  he  was  remarkable 
for  his  graceful  proficiency  as  a  skater. 

Towards  the  end  of  his  classical  studies  Weedall  was 
entrusted  with  the  care  of  a  class.  According  to  his 
biographer:  "in  classical,  and  afterwards  in  theological 
teaching,  he  was  eminently  successful.  He  was  mild  and 
patient,  ready  to  make  full  allowance  for  the  deficiency 
in  genius  of  some  pupils,  not  expecting  all  to  be  able 
to  learn  alike.  But  he  would  not  tolerate  idleness  or 
carelessness,  nor  did  his  mildness  ever  degenerate  into 
weakness  ;  hence  his  authority  was  always  respected." 
The  classes  were  usually  taught  in  the  open  air  when  the 
weather  permitted  it,  and  on  these  occasions  Henry 
Weedall  "might  be  seen  walking  or  standing  in  the 


middle  of  his  class,  carrying  on  the  lesson  with  great 
animation."  The  costume  of  the  future  President,  about 
this  time,  was  "  a  plain  black  coat,  with  grey  shorts  and 
white  stockings,  and  he  usually  wore  a  black  Leghorn 
hat  with  broad  brim,  as  a  protection  from  the  sun." 

Weedall  now  began  to  take  part  in  the  spiritual  con- 
ferences which,  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Walsh,  were 
held  by  the  Church  students  three  times  in  the  week. 
We  are  told  that  Weedall's  discourses  were  always  very 
superior,  and  the  students  looked  forward  with  particular 
pleasure  to  those  nights  when  it  would  be  his  turn  to 
address  them.  A  specimen  of  one  of  these  conferences 
has  been  preserved  by  his  biographer.  He  closes  his 
discourse  on  penance  with-  the  pithy  remark  :  "  to  sum 
up  in  a  single  sentence  the  whole  theory  and  practice  of 
penance,  what  was  sweet  must  be  bitter  to  us,  and  what 
was  bitter  must  become  sweet."  It  was  also  the  custom 
for  the  young  divines  to  deliver  sermons  or  prones  on 
alternate  Sundays,  in  which  Mr.  Weedall  was  unsur- 
passed, and  it  was  now  that  he  laid  the  foundation  of  his 
future  reputation  as  a  pulpit  orator. 

The  serious  and  painful  affection  of  the  eyes  before 
mentioned  was  the  cause  of  a  grave  defect  in  Weedall's 
studies  ;  he  was  in  fact  obliged  to  abandon  altogether  the 
customary  course  of  philosophy.  He  ventured,  however, 
with  the  help  of  a  fellow  student  to  enter  on  the  study  of 
theology.  His  first  professor  of  theology  was  the  worthy 
President,  Mr.  Potts,  for  whom  he  had  a  sincere  respect, 
and  who,  says  Husenbeth,  "  was  a  sound,  cautious,  and 
safe  theologian."  In  spite,  however,  of  this  infirmity  it 
was  deemed  expedient  to  admit  Mr.  Weedall  in  1811  to 
the  tonsure  and  minor  orders,  and  he  received  the  succes- 
sive grades  of  subdeacon  and  deacon  in  the  two  following 
years.  Owing  to  the  obstinate  weakness  of  his  eyes  he 
obtained  a  dispensation  from  saying  the  divine  office, 
which  was  commuted  for  the  rosary,  and  when  no  longer 
requiring  this  dispensation  in  full,  he  was  obliged  to  take 
to  the  recitation  of  his  breviary  by  degrees.  On  his 


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ordination  as  deacon  in  1813  he  made  his  first  step  in 
missionary  work  by  assisting  in  the  catechism  and  instruc- 
tion of  the  poor  children  belonging  to  St.  Chad's  mission 
at  Birmingham,  whither  he  was  in  the  habit  of  going  with 
great  punctuality  every  Sunday  evening  for  several  years. 
Mr.  Weedall  received  the  holy  order  of  priesthood  on  the 
6th  of  April,  1814  from  the  hands  of  Bishop  Milner  in 
his  chapel  at  Wolverhampton,  but  it  was  not  till  Low 
Sunday,  April  i/th,  that  he  said  his  first  Mass  in  the 
chapel  of  the  College,  and  on  the  following  Sunday  he 
preached  his  first  public  sermon.  He  thus  formally 
entered  upon  his  clerical  career,  and  during  the  ensuing 
vacation  he  frequently  officiated  in  the  College  chapel. 
Before  long,  however,  a  more  important  occasion  of  dis- 
tinguishing himself  occurred  at  the  old  chapel  of  St. 
Peter's  at  Birmingham,  which  was  then  in  the  hands  of 
the  Franciscans.  The  object  of  the  sermon  being  the 
support  of  the  poor  schools,  the  preacher  naturally  chose 
for  his  theme  the  virtue  of  Christian  charity.  So  much 
was  his  discourse  admired  that  it  was  published,  and 
speedily  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  schools. 

Mr.  Weedall  was  soon  afterwards  entrusted  by  the 
President  with  the  care  of  the  Catholic  poor  who  lived  at 
some  distance  from  the  College.  In  connection  with 
this  part  of  his  career  an  amusing  anecdote  has  been 
preserved.  In  one  of  his  pastoral  excursions  he  overtook 
a  neighbouring  farmer  quietly  walking  across  his  fields. 
Anxious  to  turn  the  opportunity  to  account,  Mr.  Weedall 
addressed  the  honest  farmer  on  the  necessity  of  doing  all 
the  good  in  his  power  so  long  as  life  remained  to  him. 
The  feelings  of  the  zealous  ecclesiastic  may  be  imagined 
on  receiving  the  following  reply  : — "  Why,  yes.  sir,  we 
must  all  do  what  we  can  ;  you  gentlemen  mind  your 
books  and  stick  to  your  learning,  while  we  farmers 
manure  our  fields  and  get  as  good  crops  as  we  can  ;  so 
we  all  do  good  in  our  way  !  " 

At  the  end  of  the  year  1815  a  painful  event  occurred  in 
the  College,  which  was  the  cause  of  important  changes. 


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Mr.  Potts,  the  President  and  Professor  of  Theology,  was 
seized  with  paralysis,  and  although  his  life  was  prolonged 
for  some  years,  it  was  clearly  necessary  to  supersede  him 
in  those  offices,  which  were  conferred  on  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Quick.  Mr.  Weedall  now  assumed  the  responsible  post 
of  Prefect  of  Studies,  besides  continuing,  as  before,  to 
teach  the  classics,  and  to  take  his  share  in  the  pastoral 
work  of  the  College.  In  the  summer  vacation  of  1816, 
he  recruited  himself  by  an  excursion  to  Paris,  when  he 
experienced  the  following  laughable  adventure.  He 
presented  himself  at  a  certain  church  with  the  intention 
of  saying  Mass,  but  his  credentials  being,  from  some 
unexplained  reason,  unintelligible  to  the  Sacristan,  that 
functionary  proposed  to  him,  as  a  test  of  the  genuineness 
of  his  orders  :  "  Eh  bien,  dites  moi  done  1'  Orate  fratres  ! " 
On  Mr.  Weedall  succeeding,  not  without  some  mental 
anxiety,  in  passing  this  ordeal,  the  Sacristan  exclaimed, 
with  a  self-satisfied  expression  :  "  Voila  ou  je  les 
attrappe ! " 

Mr.  Weedall  now  began  to  vary  his  classical  instruction 
with  lectures  on  elocution,  in  which,  his  biographer 
informs  us,  he  was  very  efficient,  and  adds  that  it  was  a 
real  privilege  to  study  under  such  a  master.  In  the 
spring  of  1818  he  commenced  a  course  of  catechetical 
instruction  in  the  College  chapel.  A  very  pathetic  inci- 
dent is  recorded  in  connection  with  this  course.  One 
Sunday  morning  a  fire  broke  out  in  the  cottage  of  a  poor 
Catholic  about  a  mile  from  the  College.  It  was  sad  to 
see  the  humble  dwelling  destroyed,  and  the  poor  inmates 
deprived  of  their  property  and  home.  Mr.  Weedall, 
among  others,  had  been  to  tender  his  assistance  to  the 
distressed  family,  and  that  afternoon  he  interrupted  his 
usual  lecture  to  make  a  forcible  and  not  unsuccessful 
appeal  in  their  behalf.  He  continued  also  to  give  many 
charity  sermons  in  different  parts  of  England,  the  churches 
of  Birmingham,  Liverpool,  and  Sheffield  being  among 
the  witnesses  of  his  eloquence. 


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On  the  1 3th  of  August,  1818,  the  College  sustained  a 
severe  loss  in  the  death  of  the  Rev.  John  Francis  Quick, 
the  virtual  President  and  Professor  of  Theology  during 
the  incapacity  of  Mr.  Potts.  Mr.  Quick  was  a  zealous 
and  self-sacrificing  man,  and  he  fell  a  victim  to  his  too 
unremitting  exertions  for  the  welfare  of  the  College. 
Mr.  Weedall  was  much  affected  by  this  event,  but  had 
the  melancholy  comfort  of  preaching  the  funeral  oration 
at  the  obsequies  on  the  following  Monday. 

The  lamented  death  of  Mr.  Quick  was  followed  by 
important  results.  The  office  of  President  was  conferred 
by  the  Bishop  on  the  Rev.  Mr.  Walsh,  while  Mr.  Weedall 
became  Vice-President,  Professor  of  Divinity,  and  Director 
of  the  Lay  Students  and  College  Servants.  On  the  5th 
of  December,  1819,  Mr.  Potts  expired,  and  was  buried  in 
the  vault  under  the  College  chapel ;  his  obsequies  were 
conducted  in  the  most  solemn  manner,  and  Mr.  Weedall 
was  again  called  upon  to  give  the  funeral  discourse. 

Early  in  1820  negotiations  were  begun  for  the  purchase 
of  a  farm  at  Hold  ford,  about  three  miles  from  old  Oscott, 
the  want  of  land  belonging  to  the  College  having  been 
long  felt.  This  proved  a  very  valuable  acquisition,  and  it 
exerted  a  not  unimportant  influence  on  the  health  of  the 
Vice-President.  It  has  been  mentioned  more  than  once 
that  Mr.  Weedall  suffered  from  a  chronic  affection  of  the 
eyes,  which  seriously  hampered  him  in  his  studies;  for 
this  ailment  fresh  air  and  constant  exercise  could  not  fail 
to  be  very  beneficial.  He  had  besides  a  natural  taste  for 
agricultural  pursuits,  and  under  those  circumstances  had 
no  difficulty  in  adapting  himself  to  the  care  of  a  farm. 
Mr.  Weedall  indeed  soon  began  to  acquire  a  considerable 
fund  of  information  on  this  subject,  and  we  are  told  that 
the  works  of  William  Cobbett  were  of  great  assistance  to 
him  in  this  pursuit.  "The  farm,"  says  his  biographer, 
"  became  his  pride  as  well  as  his  pleasure,"  though  he 
never  for  its  sake  neglected  any  of  his  ordinary  College 
duties. 


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At  the  midsummer  of  1822  took  place  an  important 
change  in  the  government  of  Oscott  Mr.  Walsh,  feeling 
unequal  to  the  active  management  of  the  College, 
resigned  the  actual  authority  into  the  hands  of  his  Vice- 
President,  while  he  reserved  for  himself  the  title  of 
President,  with  the  direction  of  the  spiritual  affairs  of  the 
house.  On  the  ist  of  May,  1825,  the  President  was 
consecrated,  at  Wolverhampton,  Bishop  of  Cambysopolis 
and  coadjutor  to  Bishop  Milner.  This  was  a  very  impres- 
sive occasion,  as  six  bishops,  besides  the  prelates  imme- 
diately concerned,  took  part  in  the  ceremony.  Mr.  Weedall 
was  again  asked  to  preach,  and  he  delivered  an  elaborate 
and  striking  oration  on  the  authority  of  the  Church.  This 
solemn  function  was  the  prelude  to  an  event  of  paramount 
importance  in  the  life  of  Mr.  Weedall ;  the  venerable 
Bishop  Milner,  already  in  declining  health  when  he  had 
petitioned  the  Holy  See  for  a  coadjutor,  died  on  the  I9th 
of  April,  1826,  at  his  residence  at  Wolverhampton.  Owing 
to  this  event,  the  nominal  President  of  St.  Mary's  became 
Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  Midland  District,  and  was,  of 
course,  obliged  to  leave  the  College.  Mr.  Weedall  was 
now  in  name  as  well  as  in  fact  the  President  of  Gscott,  and 
he  -thus  entered  upon  that  career  of  government  which  he 
carried  out,  almost  without  interruption,  for  the  long 
period  of  fourteen  years. 

The  new  President  was  not  long  in  receiving  a  striking 
proof  of  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  the  Catholic 
clergy  at  large,  being  elected  a  member  of  the  ancient 
Chapter  of  England,  which  dated  from  the  time  of  the 
first  Vicars  Apostolic.  This  honour  was  followed  by 
another  in  1828,  when  Bishop  Walsh  appointed  him  his 
Vicar  General  for  the  whole  of  the  Midland  District,  but 
without  prejudice  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the  vicars  already 
existing  in  the  eastern  counties.  The  opening,  on  May 
8th,  1828,  of  the  new  Chapel  of  SS.  Peter  and  Paul,  at 
Wolverhampton,  was  the  occasion  of  another  specimen 
of  pulpit  eloquence  with  which  Mr.  Weedall  delighted 
his  hearers. 


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Yet  a  fresh  distinction  was  in  store  for  the  humble 
President.  On  the  26th  of  January,  1829,  his  bishop 
petitioned  Pope  Leo  XII.  to  confer  on  Mr.  Weedall  the 
degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity,  a  favour  which  was 
graciously  conceded  by  his  Holiness  the  very  next  day 
in  a  rescript  written  in  his  own  hand.  It  is  interesting 
to  note  that  the  petition  was  laid  before  the  Pope  by  the 
eminent  prelate  who  succeeded  Mr.  Weedall  in  the 
government  of  Oscott,  and  who  afterwards  became  the 
first  Archbishop  of  Westminster.  In  the  course  of  a 
letter  to  Bishop  Walsh,  enclosing  the  Papal  rescript,  Dr. 
Wiseman  remarks:  "your  Lordship  will  oblige  me  by 
presenting  to  Dr.  Weedall  my  sincere  congratulation  on 
receiving  his  well-merited  honours.  I  have  not,  it  is 
true,  the  pleasure  of  knowing  him  personally,  but  I 
frequently  meet  many  of  his  friends,  and  it  is  impossible 
to  know  one  of  them  without  hearing  of  Dr.  Weedall's 
merits." 

The  ceremony  of  the  installation  of  the  President  in 
his  new  dignity,  together  with  the  presentation  of  the 
Doctor's  cap  and  ring,  took  place  on  the  feast  of  the 
Annunciation  ;  this  joyous  occasion  was,  however,  pre- 
ceded by  a  Requiem  Mass  for  the  soul  of  the  Pontiff,  to 
whose  condescension  the  honour  was  due,  and  who  had 
died  on  the  loth  of  the  preceding  month.  Dr.  Weedall 
was  solemnly  installed  in  the  College  chapel,  and 
invested  by  the  hands  of  the  Bishop  with  the  insignia  of 
his  degree.  This  ceremony  was  followed  by  a  festive 
banquet  in  the  College  Refectory,  when  the  health  of  the 
new  Doctor  was  warmly  proposed  by  Morgan  John 
O'Connell,  a  nephew  of  the  Liberator  and  a  former  editor 
of  the  Oscotian.  In  the  same  year  of  Catholic  Emancipa- 
tion the  great  O'Connell  himself  passed  through 
Birmingham  on  his  way  to  town,  when  he  was  waited  on 
by  the  President  and  another  priest  from  Oscott,  an  act  of 
attention  with  which  the  Liberator  was  greatly  pleased. 

In  the  early  part  of  1830,  a  painful  state  of  health 
obliged  Dr.  Weedall  to  take  a  prolonged  rest  from  the 


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labours  of  the  College.  His  bishop  advised  him  to  seek 
change  in  continental  travel,  and  he  accordingly  set  out 
in  the  company  of  Mr.  Denis  Shine  Lawlor,  his  recent 
pupil  and  a  young  man  of  great  promise,  whose  name 
will  ever  be  held  in  honour  as  one  of  the  originators  of 
the  Oscotian*  They  met  in  Germany,  enjoyed  together 
the  beauties  of  the  Rhine  and  Switzerland,  and  then 
journeyed  by  way  of  the  Italian  lakes  and 'Florence  to 
Rome.  In  the  Eternal  City  Dr.  Weedall  felt  quite  at 
home ;  it  was  his  habit,  says  his  biographer,  to  read  up 
carefully  the  acts  of  the  primitive  martyrs  and  early  saints, 
and  then  to  verify  on  the  spot  the  scene  of  their  life  or 
martyrdom.  He  enjoyed  to  the  full  the  relics  and  the 
ruins  of  Rome,  and  above  all  the  catacombs.  Under  their 
refreshing  influence  his  health  visibly  returned,  and  by 
the  middle  of  November,  1831,  he  was  back  in  his  beloved 
College. 

We  have  now  arrived  at  the  year  1835,  the  forty-seventh 
of  the  President's  life,  when  the  event  was  approaching 
which  was  to  realize  the  summit  of  his  earthly  hopes. 
The  Old  College  had  steadily  prospered  under  his  salutary 
guidance,  and  the  number  of  students  had  become  so  large 
that  a  fast  increasing  difficulty  in  accommodating  them  was 
being  experienced.  Many  proposals  were  entertained  for 
improving  the  situation,  new  houses  were  inspected  and 
sites  suitable  for  building  were  examined  ;  a  desirable 
piece  of  land  on  Sutton  Coldfield  was  at  length  purchased, 
and  it  was  resolved  to  erect  a  new  College  on  this  site. 
The  veteran  missioner  Mr.  Kirk,  who  had  been  Dr. 
Weedall's  master  at  Sedgley  Park  forty  years  before,  had 
prepared,  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  Potter,  a  talented 
architect  of  Lich field,  the  plan  of  a  college,  which  was 
speedily  adopted,  and  which  resulted  in  the  noble  and 
commanding  structure  with  which  we  are  so  familiar  as 
St.  Mary's  College. 

*  This  venerable  Oscotian  died  October  lyth,  1887,  and  lies  buried  in 
the  cemetery  attached  to  the  Dominican  Priory  at  Woodchester. 


This  was  early  in  1835.  The  Bishop  at  once  published 
an  appeal  to  the  laity,  stating  the  imperative  reasons  for 
abandoning  the  Old  College,  and  erecting  a  larger  and 
more  suitable  structure.  Contributions  flowed  in  rapidly, 
and  so  actively  was  the  work  pushed  on  that  by  the  month 
of  October  in  that  year  the  new  building  was  very 
materially  advanced.  Dr.  Weedall  gave  himself  heart 
and  soul  to  the  work  ;  he  was  to  be  seen  daily  on  the  spot, 
superintending  the  workmen  and  watching  the  progress 
of  the  building  with  unwearied  vigilance.  In  the  spring 
of  1836  was  laid  the  first  stone  of  the  chapel,  which  was 
consecrated  on  the  2pth  of  May,  1838  ;  on  the  3ist  it  was 
solemnly  opened  with  Pontifical  High  Mass,  and  on  the 
2nd  of  June,  the  vigil  of  Pentecost,  the  whole  of  the  College 
buildings  were  blessed  and  declared  ready  for  occupation. 
The  shortly-ensuing  feast  of  Corpus  Christi  was  kept  with 
great  splendour,  and  the  usual  course  of  studies  was 
resumed  without  unnecessary  delay. 

The  new  College  was  soon  found  to  be  a  success.  In 
the  following  winter  the  number  of  students  had  mounted 
to  135,  which  was  almost  double  that  of  the  average  at 
the  old  College.  Bishop  Walsh  soon  afterwards  pre- 
sented to  the  College  the  valuable  collection  cf  books 
called  the  Marini  Library,  which  he  had  lately  purchased 
in  Rome ;  contributions  of  pictures  and  other  works  of 
art  came  in  from  various  quarters,  and  the  spacious  rooms 
and  corridors  were  rapidly  fitted  with  their  appropriate 
furniture.  New  Oscott  was  now,  in  every  sense  of  the 
word,  an  accomplished  fact,  and,  says  Husenbeth,  "  St. 
Mary's  towered  on  her  proud  eminence,  a  stately  monu- 
ment of  learning  and  piety,  and  a  visible  landmark  for 
miles  around."  The  College  throve  and  prospered  under 
the  judicious  management  of  its  President,  who  might 
have  been  excused  for  thinking  that  he  had  earned  a 
right  to  enjoy  the  fruit  of  his  labours  on  the  favourite 
spot  which  was  the  creation  of  his  zeal  and  enterprise. 
But  Providence  willed  otherwise. 


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In  the  month  of  May,  1840,  the  President  received 
notice  that  the  Holy  See  had  appointed  him  Bishop 
of  Abydos  in  partibus  and  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the 
new  Northern  District.  This  announcement  fell  upon 
Dr.  Weedall  like  a  thunderbolt  ;  he  had  never  sought 
such  a  dignity,  and  he  shrank  from  its  responsibility.  His 
declining  health  presented  itself  as  an  insurmountable 
obstacle,  and  he  had  fondly  hoped  never  to  be  separated 
from  his  beloved  Oscott.  To  use  the  words  of  Dr.  Newman 
"  his  heart  was  in  his  old  work,  and  his  judgment  told 
him  that  to  begin  life  again,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two,  was 
neither  desirable  in  itself  nor  suitable  to  his  circum- 
stances." But  the  terms  of  the  brief  were  clear,  and 
seemed  to  admit  of  no  refusal.  Still  the  President  deter- 
mined to  make  an  effort  for  release,  and  resolved  to  lay 
his  case  at  the  feet  of  the  Holy  Father.  "  On  the  22nd 
of  June,"  says  his  biographer,  "  with  a  full  heart  and  an 
anxious  mind,  he  bade  farewell  to  his  dear  College,  and 
began  his  second  journey  to  the  Eternal  City.  He  was 
not,  however,  without  support  at  Rome.  The  Right 
Rev.  Dr.  Baines,  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  Western  District, 
was  then  on  a  visit  with  Pope  Gregory  XVI.,  at  Castel 
Gandolfo.  In  the  course  of  an  after  dinner  conversation, 
the  Bishop  mentioned  to  His  Holiness  that  Dr.  Weedall 
was  most  anxious  to  be  excused  from  accepting  his  new 
appointment.  The  Pope  listened  to  his  objections  with 
kindness,  and  promised  that  they  should  be  duly 
considered.  Thus  encouraged,  Bishop  Baines  wrote  to 
his  friend  at  Lucca,  urging  him  to  come  to  Rome  without 
delay  and  plead  his  cause  in  person.  Dr.  Weedall  at 
once  complied  with  the  invitation,  and  presented  to  the 
Sacred  Congregation  of  Propaganda  a  memorial,  setting 
out  the  motives  of  his  refusal.  The  petition  was  favour- 
ably received,  and  on  the  I2th  of  September  he  obtained 
from  the  Cardinal  Secretary  a  notification  of  his  release. 
On  the  2nd  of  December  he  was  presented  to  the  Holy 
Father  by  his  friend  Dr.  Baggs,  Rector  of  the  English 
College,  when  he  thanked  His  Holiness  for  so  graciously 


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relieving  him  from  the  burden  of  the  episcopate.  The 
Pope  received  Dr.  Weedall  most  kindly,  and  expressed 
his  regret  that  he  should  have  felt  himself  unequal  to  the 
charge ;  but,  added  His  Holiness  in  a  second  audience 
granted  before  the  President's  departure  from  Rome, 
"  now  that  we  know  you  so  well  we  will  not  let  you 
escape  so  easily  another  time." 

Dr.  Weedall  had  now  concluded  to  his  satisfaction  the 
business  which  had  called  him  to  Rome,  and  he  accord- 
ingly set  out  in  May  1841,  much  relieved  in  mind  and 
improved  in  health,  on  his  return  to  England.  Still, 
although  he  had  attained  one  portion  of  his  desire,  namely, 
his  release  from  the  burden  of  a  bishopric,  yet  on  another 
and  more  sensitive  ground,  he  was  destined  to  severe 
disappointment.  He  had  left  Oscott  in  June,  1840,  its 
honoured  and  beloved  President;  he  was  to  return  and 
find  the  College  in  other  hands,  and  all  prospect  of  regain- 
ing his  position  was  denied.  This  was  a  blow  which 
Dr.  Weedall  felt  very  keenly,  the  more  so  as  no  other 
suitable  field  for  exertion  seemed  to  be  opened  to  him. 
Yet  he  could  not  remain  inactive,  and  he  was  willing  to 
fill  even  an  inferior  post  where  he  had  so  lately  been  the 
head.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Foley  resigned  in  his  favour  the 
care  of  a  preparatory  school  at  the  Old  College,  of  which 
Dr.  Weedall  took  possession  in  September,  1841.  This 
was,  however,  a  very  unsuitable  employment  for  a  man  of 
his  talents  and  great  services  to  religion,  and  this  fact  was 
fully  realized  by  his  numerous  friends.  For  a  few  months 
he  took  charge  of  the  mission  of  Hampton-on-the-Hill, 
from  which  he  removed  in  June  1843  to  Leamington. 
Here  Dr.  Weedall  spent  five  years  and  a  half  in  a 
sphere  of  work  very  different  from  that  in  which  he 
had  lived  from  his  early  youth,  and  he  found  the  life  of 
the  mission  hardly  congenial  to  his  nature  and  habits. 
Nevertheless  he  devoted  himself  with  conscientious  zeal 
and  exactitude  to  the  duties  of  his  parish,  while  he  found 
in  the  cheerful  society  of  Leamington  a  distraction  from 
the  cares  of  missionary  life. 


This  part  of  Dr.  Weedall's  career  was  terminated  in 
the  autumn  of  1848,  when  the  arrangements  for  the  new 
hierarchy  resulted  in  the  transfer  of  the  present  venerable 
Archbishop  of  Cabasa  from  the  Western  to  the  Central 
District.  While  on  the  mission  at  Coventry,  Bishop 
Ullathorne  had  been  well  acquainted  with  the  pastor  of 
Leamington,  whose  worth  he  fully  appreciated,  and  one 
of  the  first  acts  of  his  government  was  to  make  Dr. 
Weedall  his  Vicar-General.  In  order  to  avail  himself 
more  effectually  of  the  Vicar's  assistance  and  advice,  the 
Bishop  further  invited  him  to  live  at  St.  Chad's,  where  he 
accordingly  took  up  his  residence  in  December  of  the 
same  year.  Dr.  Weedall  was  soon  afterwards  called 
upon  to  perform  a  very  trying  and  painful  duty,  in 
preaching  at  the  funeral  of  his  long  tried  friend  and 
former  superior,  the  saintly  Bishop  Walsh,  who  died  in 
London  on  the  i8th  of  February,  1849,  and  whose  remains 
were  brought  to  Birmingham,  and  laid  in  the  vaults 
beneath  St,  Chad's  Cathedral.  Dr.  Weedall's  residence 
at  St.  Chad's  was  full  of  honour  to  himself  and  advantage 
to  religion,  but  unhappily  his  health  would  not  allow  it 
to  be  permanent.  The  work  and  anxiety  of  his  respon- 
sible position  brought  back,  in  an  alarming  degree,  his 
old  malady  of  the  eyes,  and  his  bishop  was  forced 
reluctantly  to  sanction  his  removal  to  a  quieter  post.  He 
accordingly  retired  in  December,  1849,  to  Handsworth, 
where  he  devoted  himself  to  the  Convent  of  our  Lady  of 
Mercy,  and  the  care  of  a  small  congregation.  In  June, 
1852,  on  the  establishment  of  the  Cathedral  Chapter, 
Dr.  Weedall  was  appointed  Provost  of  Birmingham,  a 
dignity  which  he  held  until  his  death.  In  this  capacity 
he  assisted  at  the  first  Provincial  Council  of  Westminster, 
which  was  held  at  St.  Mary's  College  in  July  of  that 
year. 

Thirteen  years  had  now  elapsed  since  Dr.  Weedall's 
enforced  separation  from  Oscott,  and  the  time  at  length 
arrived  when  he  was  to  be  restored  to  the  home  of  his 


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predilection.  "  His  kind  bishop,"  says  Dr.  Husenbeth, 
"seized  the  earliest  opportunity  to  restore  him  to  his 
deserved  and  dignified  position  at  St.  Mary's  College,"  and 
he  resumed  his  old  place  as  President  on  the  Feast  of 
the  Visitation,  1853.  It  was  in  a  time  of  trial  for  the 
College  that  Dr.  Weedall  returned  to  Oscott  "  In  his 
vigour  of  life,"  to  quote  the  words  of  Bishop  Ullathorne, 
"he  had  raised  that  College  in  its  splendour,  and  he  left 
it  prospering ;  he  returned  to  it  in  its  hour  of  difficulty, 
and  expended  in  its  service  the  energies  that  yet  remained 
to  him."  A  work  of  arduous  labour  was  before  him,  but 
he  was  not  disheartened  ;  he  summoned  around  him  his 
old  and  tried  confederates,  and  with  their  assistance  set 
himself  courageously  to  restore  the  College  to  its  former 
prosperity.  The  name  of  Weedall  had  a  magic  influence, 
and  at  its  sound  the  confidence  of  the  Catholic  public 
revived.  Under  his  prudent  administration  the  prospects 
of  the  College  soon  began  to  brighten,  and  with  the 
Divine  blessing  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  his 
efforts  crowned  with  success.  The  declining  years  of  his 
life  were  cheered  by  the  knowledge  that  he  had  raised 
his  beloved  seminary  to  as  high  a  pitch  of  prosperity  as 
that  in  which  he  had  left  it,  and  by  a  well  grounded  hope 
that  he  might  safely  bequeath  to  his  successors  the 
continuation  of  his  work.  It  was  a  special  and  timely 
consolation  to  Dr.  Weedall  to  see  his  labours  thus  blessed, 
for  his  return  to  Oscott  was  quickly  followed  by  a  warning 
that  his  remaining  years  on  earth  would  be  few.  In 
November,  1853,  he  attended,  in  London,  a  meeting  of 
the  Chapter,  and  during  his  home  journey  he  was  seized 
with  an  alarming  attack  of  illness.  From  this  time  to 
his  death  he  was  hardly  without  suffering,  and  in  the 
words  of  the  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Newman  in  his  funeral 
oration,  "  it  pleased  Almighty  God  to  send  upon  him  a 
disorder  which,  during  the  last  six  years  of  his  life,  fought 
with  him,  mastered  him,  and  at  length  destroyed  him." 
It  was,  however,  known  to  his  intimate  friends  that  he 
had  felt  all  through  life  symptoms  of  this,  at  last,  fatal 
disease. 


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In  the  year  1854,  Dr.  Weedall  was  cheered  and 
encouraged  by  a  special  mark  of  the  favour  of  the  Holy 
See.  He  received  unexpectedly  from  Pope  Pius  IX.  the 
dignity  of  Domestic  Prelate  to  His  Holiness,  with  the 
title  of  Monsignore.  The  brief  of  appointment  was  dated 
May  Qth,  1854.  Dr.  Weedall  was  deeply  gratified  by  this 
sign  of  Papal  condescension,  but  with  characteristic 
modesty,  in  his  letter  of  thanks  to  the  Holy  Father,  he 
applies  the  honour  rather  to  the  College  over  which  he 
presided  than  to  himself  personally.  By  a  singular 
chance  the  bestowal  of  this  dignity  coincided  with  the 
5oth  year  of  the  President's  career  at  Oscott,  dating 
from  his  first  arrival  from  Sedgley  Park  in  June,  1804 ;  it 
was  therefore  decided  that  the  two  joyful  events  should  be 
kept  together  in  one  common  festivity.  The  I2th  of  June 
was  fixed  upon  for  the  celebration,  which  was  inaugurated 
by  Pontifical  High  Mass.  At  three  o'clock  a  large 
company  assembled  in  the  College  Library,  and  addresses 
were  presented  to  the  new  Prelate,  by  the  Superiors  and 
Students,  followed  by  a  cordial  speech  of  congratulation 
from  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese.  We  cannot  more  fitly 
close  this  memoir  than  by  reproducing  the  dignified  and 
affectionate  language  of  Bishop  Ullathorne  : — "  For  fifty 
years,  Right  Reverend  Sir,  your  name  has  been  associated 
with  this  institution,  from  which  it  never  can  be  in  future 
separated.  In  its  present  expansion  and  completeness, 
St.  Mary's  College  recognises  you  as  its  founder  ;  even  in 
its  least  details  it  is  the  emanation  of  your  mind,  and  the 
time  thr6ugh  which  it  has  flourished  is  a  testimony  to  the 
judgment  and  foresight  which  you  exercised  in  its 
projection.  And  now  in  your  still  vigorous  age  you  have 
returned  to  renew  within  the  walls  of  Oscott  that  peculiar 
spirit  of  ecclesiastical  piety  and  discipline  with  which 
your  character  imbued  it  from  the  first.  Would  that  the 
fifty  years  now  passed  were  fifty  years  to  come  !  But 
may  God  long  sustain  your  spirit,  and  may  time  touch 
your  frame  in  a  manner  as  kindly  and  gentle  as  your  own  : 
may  the  love  and  veneration  of  the  clergy  of  this  diocese 


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be  your  staff  and  support,  and  may  God  within  your 
heart  be  your  consolation  ! " 

This  was  the  last  bright  spot  in  Dr.  Weedall's  long 
and  useful  career.  The  six  concluding  years  of  his  life 
were  spent  quietly  at  Oscott,  working  steadily  for  the 
prosperity  of  the  College,  which  he  had  the  satisfaction 
of  seeing  placed  upon  a  firm  and  lasting  foundation.  So 
the  time  went  on  till  the  spring  of  1859,  when  he  was 
again  attacked  by  a  serious  illness.  From  the  beginning 
of  Lent  he  was  obliged  to  keep  his  room,  and  the  summer 
was  passed  with  but  little  alleviation  of  his  sufferings. 
At  the  end  of  October  he  became  much  worse.  Early  in  the 
following  month  he  received  Extreme  Unction  and  the  last 
blessing  from  the  hands  of  his  old  friend  Canon  Bagnall, 
and  at  four  o'clock  in  the  morning  of  the  /th  of  November 
he  calmly  breathed  his  last.  The  funeral  service,  on  the 
following  Friday,  was  exceedingly  impressive.  The 
Bishop  of  the  Diocese  sang  the  Requiem  Mass  in  the 
presence  of  the  Bishops  of  Shrewsbury  and  Northampton, 
the  Cathedral  Chapter,  with  a  large  number  of  other 
priests,  and  the  whole  body  of  students.  A  touching 
discourse  was  delivered  by  the  illustrious  Superior  of  the 
Birmingham  Oratory,  and  the  venerated  corpse  was 
carried  to  its  last  resting  place.  Leaving  the  College  by 
the  entrance  hall,  the  mournful  procession  passed  slowly 
along  the  terrace ;  a  halt  was  made  under  the  great  east 
window  of  the  chapel,  and  the  remains  of  the  beloved 
President,  clothed  in  the  habit  of  a  tertiary  of  Mount 
Carmel  were  laid  reverently  in  the  crypt. 

The  two  salient  points  of  Dr.  Weedall's  character  by 
which  he  will  be  best  remembered,  are  his  remarkable 
talent  for  organisation  and  his  unquestioned  reputation 
as  a  pulpit  orator.  To  begin  with  the  latter.  All  who 
have  had  an  opportunity  of  judging  are  unanimous  in 
their  tribute  to  his  great  success  in  the  pulpit.  It  may 
be  sufficient  to  refer  our  readers  to  two  authorities,  which 
may  be  taken  as  conclusive  on  this  point,  namely,  the 
late  Provost  of  Northampton,  and  one  who  bears  a  name 


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doubly  held  in  honour  among  Oscotians,  the  Rev.  Father 
William  Amherst,  S.J. 

Dr.  Husenbeth  says:  "Though  Dr.  Weedall  excelled 
in  almost  everything  that  he  undertook,  preaching  was 
evidently  his  grand  distinguishing  talent.  His  sermons 
were  composed  with  great  attention,  and  polished  again 
and  again  with  untiring  labour.  They  were  singularly 
beautiful  as  compositions,  and  contained  a  powerful 
theology  on  which  was  grounded  what  was  most  edify- 
ing and  instructive.  His  delivery  was  as  elegant  as 
his  composition  ;  all  seemed  to  flow  spontaneously,  and 
all  was  perfectly  natural  and  apparently  unstudied.  His 
pronunciation  of  every  word  was  clear  and  distinct,  so 
that,  though  he  never  spoke  loud,  he  was  always  heard 
well  and  listened  to  attentively ;  his  voice  was  mellow 
and  deep-toned  ;  his  attitude  dignified  and  commanding. 
The  great  feature  of  his  delivery  was  the  earnest  and 
emphatic  manner  in  which  he  uttered  his  finely  con- 
structed sentences.  Dr.  Weedall  assuredly  attained  the 
two  great  ends  of  Christian  oratory,  to  convince  and  to 
persuade :  he  was  always  heard  with  riveted  attention, 
and  when  he  was  expected  to  preach  his  audience  antici- 
pated, and  never  failed  to  obtain,  both  pleasure  and 
spiritual  profit." 

To  quote  from  Father  Amherst :  "  Dr.  Weedall's  preach- 
ing was  always  greatly  admired,  and  it  was  deserving  of 
admiration.  He  was  undoubtedly  an  orator,  and  an 
orator  of  great  excellence.  His  style  of  composition 
was  what  would  now  be  called  '  archaic,'  but  when 
Dr.  Weedall  was  young  his  discourses  would,  I  think, 
have  been  considered  excellent  writing.  In  his  style  of 
delivery  there  was  a  quiet  but  most  decided  earnestness, 
a  polished  and  subdued  vigour,  a  pleasing  enunciation, 
and  an  elegant  gesture,  which,  when  added  to  the  solidity 
of  his  thoughts,  clothed  in  very  beautiful  language, 
rendered  his  sermons  extremely  captivating." 

The  wonderful  capacity  of  Dr.  Weedall  for  work  and 
organisation  will  best  be  illustrated  by  retracing  the 


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narrative  of  the  preceding  pages.  The  history  of  Oscott, 
from  the  time  when  he  became  its  virtual  President  in 
1822,  is  the  record  of  his  untiring  industry,  his  love  of 
order,  and  his  unceasing  care  for  the  good  of  the  College. 
Oscott,  as  we  now  know  it,  was  in  fact  his  creature ;  he 
fondly  watched  over  its  development,  studied  with  affec- 
tionate solicitude  its  every  detail,  and  rejoiced  till  his 
latest  breath  in  its  progress  and  prosperity. 

Our  concluding  words  shall  again  be  those  of  Father 
Amherst : — "  According  to  my  notions,  Dr.  Weedall  was 
a  model  President ;  he  was  heartily  devoted  to  his  work 
at  St.  Mary's  College.  He  was,  indeed,  regarded  by  all 
as  a  virtuous  priest,  a  good  scholar,  a  man  of  great 
common  sense,  an  upright  and  honourable  English 
gentleman  ;  but  perhaps  the  best  testimony  to  the  ex- 
cellence of  his  management  of  St.  Mary's,  was  the 
unbroken  confidence  with  which  parents  and  guardians 
entrusted  their  children  to  his  care.  Dr.  Weedall  has 
been  called  Oscott's  most  distinguished  son.  May  the 
spirit  which  animated  him  long  continue  to  live  in  the 
superiors  and  students  of  Alma  Mater ! " 


His  EMINENCE  CARDINAL  HOWARD, 


BISHOP  OF  FRASCATI. 


OSCOTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  14. 

The  Church. 


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Oscott' s  3nffaence  on  Catholic  €bucation» 

IN  writing  a  few  pages  on  this  subject  I  must  take  the 
word  "  Education  "  in  its  widest  sense.  I  understand  by 
it  everything  which  concerns  the  training  of  the  mind 
and  body,  especially  in  youth.  But  having  taken  a 
meaning  which  comprises  a  great  deal,  I  must  qualify  the 
education  I  am  going  to  speak  of  by  the  golden  word, 
Christian.  I  write  therefore  about  the  influence  of  Oscott 
on  Christian  education. 

As  I  am  old  enough  to  remember  some  of  the  earliest 
students  of  Oscott,  when  I  was  a  big  boy  and  they  were 
middle-aged  men  in  the  world,  my  experience  in  the 
matter  I  am  writing  of  is  long  enough.  It  is  true  that 
of  late  years  I  have  not  seen  so  much  of  Oscott  men  as 
I  used  to  do  in  days  gone  by.  But  I  have  evidence  to 
guide  me,  which  is  quite  as  good  as  my  own  more  fre- 
quent personal  experience  would  have  been.  That  evi- 
dence consists  of  the  judgment  of  others  who  are  quite 
as  well  able  to  judge  as  myself;  and  perhaps  better  able 
to  judge  than  I  am.  In  writing'the  following  lines  it  will 
be  impossible  not  to  trench  in  some  degree  upon  the 
domain  of  a  few  of  those  who  are  going  to  write  in  this 
Jubilee  number  on  St.  Mary's  College,  under  other 
headings.  For  instance,  the  influence  of  any  college 
upon  education  must  depend  upon  the  "  spirit "  of  the 
College.  I  shall  therefore  have  to  say  things  which  would 
come  as  well  under  the  heading  of  "  The  Spirit  of  Oscott" 
as  under  that  of  "  The  Influence  of  Oscott  upon  Educa- 
tion." There  is  however  one  great  advantage  that  will 
arise  from  this.  There  will  be  cumulative  evidence  to 
prove  that  the  Catholics  of  the  United  Kingdom  have 
good  reason  to  be  proud  of  St.  Mary's. 


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The  basis  of  Christian  education  is  the  Christian  religion, 
of  which  the  Catholic  Church  is  the  only  lawful  expounder. 
To  lay  the  foundation  firmly  and  well  in  the  mind  and  heart 
of  every  child  of  the  Church  is  therefore  the  first  and  most 
important  duty  of  those  who  have  to  educate.  Mere 
instruction,  however  necessary  and  important,  is  in 
the  matter  of  religion  not  sufficient  The  practice 
of  Christianity  has  to  be  inculcated  and  encouraged. 
Religion  as  taught  by  the  Church  is  the  most  essentially 
practical  thing  on  God's  earth.  It  must  be  shewn  to  be 
so  at  the  earliest  possible  age.  Everything  that  can  attract 
the  young  to  the  practice  of  religion  must  be  put  before 
them,  and  everything  that  would  be  calculated  to  repel 
them  must  be  most  carefully  avoided.  When  the  amount 
of  religious  instruction,  and  the  kind  and  quantity  of  out- 
ward religious  practices  are  reasonable,  boys  never  seriously 
complain.  Oscott  is  a  good  example  of  this.  Full  and 
complete  instruction,  accompanied  by  a  just  medium  in 
the  compulsory  practices  required,  has  been  the  rule  at 
Oscott  from  the  beginning.  The  consequence  of  this 
has  been  that  Oscott  boys  never  leave  the  College  with 
any  disgust  for  the  practices  of  religion,  as  the  result  of 
the  system  adopted  within  its  walls.  It  may  perhaps  be 
very  confidently  asserted  that  no  Oscotian  in  after  life  ever 
said  that  he  had  had,  when  at  College,  enough  of  religion 
to  last  him  his  whole  life,  and  gave  that  as  an  excuse  for 
a  negligent  life.  Evil  passions  may  indeed  very  quickly 
lead  to  disgust  for  the  restraints  of  religion  ;  but  no  one 
could  ever  lay  the  blame  of  the  aversion  upon  St.  Mary's, 
Religious  teaching  and  the  requirements  connected  with 
the  practice  of  religion  at  Oscott,  have  naturally  had  a 
considerable  influence  upon  the  education  of  the  boys.  It 
has  been  an  influence  which  was  not  thrown  off  when  the 
student  left  the  College ;  but  it  has  lasted  through  life. 
The  disciplinary  system  in  a  College  has  more  to  do  with 
the  formation  or  development  of  character  than  any  other 
special  portion  of  education.  It  has  a  greater  influence 
on  the  future  life  of  a  boy  than  anything  he  may  be 


THE  RT.  REV.  EDWARD  ILSLEY,  D.D. 

SECOND  BISHOP  OF  BIRMINGHAM. 
(Front  a  Photograph  byj.  Collier,  New  Street,  Birmingham). 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  15. 

The  Church. 


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taught  as  a  lesson.  The  system  of  discipline  at  Oscott 
has  always  been  eminently  qualified  to  prepare  a  boy  for 
the  battle  of  life  ;  whether  it  be  the  battle  of  God  against 
the  devil,  the  world  and  the  flesh,  or  the  battle  of  mere 
temporal  interests:  its  natural  result  is  a  self-reliance 
governed  by  those  rules  which  under  the  existing  circum- 
stances everyone  is  bound  to  obey.  In  regard  to  moral 
and  social  conduct  the  impression  made  upon  an  Oscott 
boy  is  that  of  individual  personal  responsibility.  He 
does  not  look  upon  the  moral  and  social  law  merely  as  a 
portion  of  those  regulations  which  are  incident  to  school 
days,  and  which  are  necessary  for  the  government  of 
boys  collected  together  in  large  numbers.  The  result  is 
that  he  carries  away  with  him  his  good  principles  and 
practices  when  he  leaves  the  College,  and  does  not  discard 
them  along  with  those  habits  and  methods,  which  are  no 
longer  binding  or  even  appropriate.  The  number  of 
young  men  who  have  left  Oscott  in  the  disposition  above 
described  must  have  produced  a  very  considerable  effect 
upon  education,  by  showing  examples  of  the  good  training 
they  had  received. 

Another  thing  noticeable  among  Oscott  boys  is  the 
interest  they  take  in  the  ceremonies  of  the  Church. 
They  have  enough  opportunities  of  witnessing  functions 
without  having  too  much  thrust  upon  them.  There  used 
to  be,  and  I  have  no  doubt  there  still  is,  at  Oscott  an 
intelligent  desire  to  understand  and  appreciate  the  full 
meaning  of  the  ceremonies  of  the  Church.  When  special 
offices  were  brought  under  our  notice,  such  as  those  of  Holy 
Week,  or  the  ceremonies  of  the  various  ordinations,  they 
were  for  the  time  the  subject  of  conversation  amongst 
the  boys,  and  were  thoroughly  understood.  I  remember 
how  on  the  2nd  of  November,  and  on  the  occasion  of 
three  or  four  dirges  which  occurred  during  the  eight  years 
I  was  there,  all  the  students,  even  the  youngest,  were  most 
anxious  to  borrow  breviaries  in  order  to  follow  the  office. 
All  this  has  a  greater  effect  upon  education  than  may  at 


first  sight  appear.  In  the  ordinary  and  in  the  special 
prayers  and  ceremonies  of  the  Church,  the  mind  of 
the  Church  is  so  clearly  shown  that  it  makes  upon 
a  Christian  boy  an  immediate  impression,  and  helps 
in  a  wonderful  manner  to  enable  him,  in  the  words  of 
St.  Ignatius,  to  think  and  feel  with  the  Church.  This 
is  a  most  important  part  of  education.  A  judicious 
religious  training  will  educate  the  young  to  look  upon 
every  act  as  the  act  of  a  Christian,  and  that  therefore  it 
should  be  in  itself  a  Christian  act.  A  Catholic  boy  who 
has  been  brought  up  at  a  College,  should  leave  it  under 
the  conviction  that  while  religion  should  animate  all  his 
thoughts,  words,  and  actions,  it  does  not  interfere  with 
any  study,  occupation,  or  amusement  which  is  innocent. 
All  young  men  who  are  not  hopelessly  foolish  will  admit 
this.  It  is  true  that  Solomon  says  the  number  of  fools  is 
infinite.  But  there  can  be  no  doubt  that  while  the  Evil 
Spirit  is  well  on  the  watch  to  make  a  boy  look  upon 
religion  as  a  bore,  an  education  based  on  religion  and 
common  sense  saves  many  a  finite  from  falling  into  the 
infinite.  I  think  the  education  at  St.  Mary's  is  of  that 
sort. 

I  shall  have  occasion  again  in  the  course  of  this  article 
to  speak  of  matters  more  or  less  touching  religion.  I  will 
now  mention  some  other  matters.  It  has  always  been 
admitted  at  Oscott  that  the  study  of  the  classics  is  the 
best  known  system  for  teaching  accuracy  of  thought  and 
expression,  and  at  the  same  time  the  disciplined  use  of 
the  imagination  and  the  powers  of  persuasion  in  literary 
and  professional  avocations.  At  the  very  commencement 
of  the  College  the  classics  were  enforced  by  the  brilliant 
teaching  and  the  birch-rod  of  Mr.  Potts ;  they  continued 
to  be  encouraged  under  the  elegant  scholarship  but  milder 
enforcement  of  Dr.  Weedall ;  and  in  subsequent  years 
the  tradition  of  this  kind  of  study  has  never  been  lost. 
Nor  have  mathematical  studies  been  neglected.  In 
mentioning  the  classics  and  science  it  would  be  idle  to 


say  that  the  proficiency  of  Oscott  men  in  those  parts  of 
education  has  been  so  conspicuous  that  it  has  had  any 
notable  effect  upon  education  in  general,  that  is  apart 
from  the  individuals  educated.  But  nevertheless  the 
attention  paid  at  the  College  to  the  higher  branches  of 
learning  has  been  such  as,  at  least,  not  to  lower  the  stan- 
dard which  our  Catholic  Colleges  aim  at.  Oscott  is  one 
of  those  schools  which  suffers  from  the  want  of  sufficient 
endowment.  What  is  required  in  order  to  make  it  a 
perfect  school,  is  that  it  should  be  sufficiently  independent 
of  the  pensions  of  the  Boarders  to  be  able  to  exist  with- 
out them.  If  there  was  a  fund  for  the  education  of 
students,  both  lay  and  clerical  ;  if  there  were  endowed 
Professorships,  the  College  would-be  firmly  established. 
Then,  as  paying  students  would  not  be  absolutely  necess- 
ary to  its  existence,  the  pensions  might  be  increased,  and 
with  their  assistance  the  College  could  be  put  in  many 
respects  into  a  condition  which  would  attract  students. 
The  reputation  of  the  College  as  a  school  for  higher  edu- 
cation would  increase,  and  having  everything  required  for 
the  highest  demands"  of  the  day,  many  parents  and 
guardians  would,  in  my  opinion,  rather  prefer  the  higher 
pension  to  the  lower  one.  It  may  be  said — what  chance 
is  there  of  any  such  endowment  as  I  have  mentioned  ? 
If  there  is  no  such  chance  it  is  not  very  creditable  to  the 
Catholics  of  England.  The  College  is  now  very  close 
upon  its  centenary.  In  the  year  1894  it  will  be  one  hun- 
dred years  since  it  was  first  established  in  the  valley.  It 
has  educated  a  large  number  of  the  best  known  families 
in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland.  And  yet  I  believe  I  am 
right  in  saying  that,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  Bourses 
for  the  education  of  ecclesiastical  students,  it  has  no 
endowment  whatever.  I  maintain  that  the  Oscott  spirit 
is  such  a  valuable  element  amongst  the  Catholics  of 
England  that  it  is  well  worth  while  to  make  sacrifices  in 
order  to  maintain  it ;  that  its  diminished  influence  would 
be  deplorable ;  and  its  extinction  an  irreparable  loss. 


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There  is  one  important  branch  of  literature  to  which 
special  importance  has  been  attached  at  St.  Mary's.  I 
allude  to  the  study  of  the  English  language,  and  especially 
of  English  composition.  The  attention  paid  to  this  by 
the  Superiors  has  been  often  gratefully  acknowledged  by. 
Oscotians  in  after  life.  The  care  which  has  been  bestowed 
upon  this  department  may  have  had  its  origin  in  the 
extreme  solicitude  which  Dr.  Weedall  always  showed  that 
his  own  compositions  should  be  as  excellent  as  he  could 
make  them.  His  example  certainly  had  an  effect  upon 
those  who  were  at  the  College  during  his  time. 

I  must  now  pass  on  to  another  matter  in  which  the 
education  at  Oscott  has  had  a  considerable  effect.  I 
mean  the  intelligent  desire  which  so  many  Oscotians 
have  had  to  take  an  active  part  in  Catholic  affairs.  For- 
tunately for  Oscotians,  only  fourteen  years  after  the 
foundation  of  the  College,  it  became  the  property  of 
Bishop  Milner.  He,  of  course,  exercised  a  great  influence 
over  all  the  inmates,  although  he  did  not  permanently 
reside  at  Oscott.  The  spirit  of  Bishop  Milner  in  all 
ecclesiastical  matters  was  of  the  -highest  and  best  kind. 
He  laid  the  foundation  of  those  principles  of  Catholic 
action  in  public  affairs,  especially  in  those  matters  most 
closely  affecting  the  Church,  which,  afterwards  developed 
and  encouraged  by  Cardinal  Wiseman,  produced  that 
admirable  co-operation  between  clergy  and  laity  which 
existed  in  the  time  of  Mr.  Langdale,  himself  an  Oscotian.* 
Bishop  Milner  was  stern  and  uncompromising  when  any 
attempt  was  made  by  the  laity  to  interfere  in  matters 
which  belonged  to  the  ecclesiastical  authority ;  at  the 
same  time  he  was  always  glad  to  avail  himself  of  the 
help  of  laymen  in  all  things  which  came  within  their  pro- 
vince. During  the  somewhat  troubled  time  which  pre- 
ceded emancipation,  with  Bishop  Milner  to  guide  them, 

*  Charles  Langdale  was  both  at  Oscott  and  Stonyhurst,  and  therefore 
both  colleges  may  claim  him.  I  have  heard  that  he  was  more  fond  of 
speaking  of  his  days  at  Stonyhurst  than  of  those  at  Oscott.  If  length  of 
time  be  considered,  he  was  five  years  at  St.  Mary's,  a  longer  time,  I  imagine, 
than  that  during  which  he  was  at  the  Jesuit  College. 


THE  RT.  REV.  MGR.  THE  HON.  EDMUND  STONOR,  D.C.L., 


CANON  OF  S.  JOHN  LATERAN'S. 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  16. 

The  Church, 


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it  must  have  been  an  easy  thing  for  Oscotians  to  dis- 
tinguish in  those  questions  which  involved  the  mixed  action 
of  clergy  and  laity.  One  main  object  which  Bishop 
(afterwards  Cardinal)  Wiseman  had  in  view  in  the  educa- 
tion of  Catholic  youth,  was  to  fit  them  to  act  as  thorough 
Christians  and  Catholics  in  all  public  affairs ;  and  to 
incite  them  to  take  a  special  interest  in  Catholic  matters. 
During  the  seven  years  he  was  President  of  Oscott  he 
exerted  himself  to  send  out  young  men  who  understood 
their  position  as  Catholics  in  a  Protestant  country,  and 
were  resolved  to  be  loyal  to  it.  The  spirit  of  Dr.  Milner 
had  been  sustained  by  Dr.  Weedall,  and  thus  for  many 
years  the  students  of  St.  Mary's  continued  to  be  under 
the  influence  of  principles  in  Catholic  action,  of  which  it 
may  be  said  that  they  could  not  have  been  better.  The 
result  has  been  that  in  a  most  important  branch  of  edu- 
cation sound  principles  have  been  taught,  and  imbibed, 
and'have  been  reduced  to  practice,  within  the  College  and 
in  the  Catholic  world  at  large,  by  many  generations  of 
scholars,  during  a  period  of  eighty  years  ;  from  the  time 
Bishop  Milner  obtained  possession  of  the  College  in  the 
year  1808  down  to  the  present  year  of  our  Lord  1888. 
If  this  is  not  an  influence  and  a  good  influence  on 
Christian  education,  it  may  be  asked,  "  what  is  ?" 

Another  thing  which  has  had  an  effect  upon  education 
is  this,  that  Oscott,  both  amongst  the  Professors  and  in 
the  "  Bounds,"  has  been  free  from  unworthy  prejudices. 
There  has~never  been  anything  like  narrow-mindedness 
in  ideas,  whether  affecting  matters  of  study,  or  nationality, 
or  religion.  I  have  mentioned  this  in  some  chapters  of 
the  History  of  Oscott,  which  I  had  the  pleasure  to  write 
for  the  Oscotian,  I  am  happy  here  to  add  the  testimony 
of  one  whose  personal  acquaintance  with  Oscott  had  no 
break  between  the  year  1830,  when  he  first  went  to  the 
College,  and  the  year  1883. when  he  died.  The  evid'ence 
which  I  am  going  to  quote  concerns  large-mindedness  in 
religious  matters.  In  the  diary  left  by  Bishop  Amherst, 
I  find  under  the  date  of  March,  1878,  these  few  words  : — 


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"  Received  from  Canon  Knight  a  list  of  Oscott  boys  who 
have  become  priests.  The  spirit  of  Oscott  is  always 
good  ;  I  never  once  heard  a  syllable  reflecting  on  the 
religious  orders."  These  words  of  one  who  was  a  good 
Oscotian  and  a  good  Bishop,  are,  I  may  be  allowed  to 
say,  honourable  to  St.  Mary's  and  honourable  to  the  man 
who  wrote  them.  I  venture  to  say  that  there  are  few 
Oscotians  indeed  who  would  hesitate  to  countersign  that 
entry  in  Bishop  Amherst's  diary.  It  is  the  same  thing 
with  regard  to  other  matters ;  and  I  wish  to  say  here, 
even  at  the  risk  of  being  thought  egotistical,  that,  to  the 
best  of  my  recollection,  I  left  Oscott  without  a  single 
prejudice,  except  against  narrow-mindedness,  especially 
in  matters  affecting  religion.  I  will  say  again,  this 
large-mindedness  inculcated  at  the  College  cannot  have 
existed  through  so  many  years  without  producing  a  greaf 
effect  upon  Catholic  Education  in  the  United  Kingdom. 

Another  effect  which  the  spirit  and  system  at  Oscott 
has  had  upon  education,  is  that  it  has  produced  men  who 
have  been  well  able  to  judge  in  matters  affecting  opinions, 
conduct,  and  taste,  between  what  is  Roman  and  what  is 
English.  In  matters  of  doctrine  no  one  ever  heard  it 
said  that  there  was  at  Oscott  the  smallest  tendency  to 
lean  towards  what  may  be  called  "Anglican  "  as  opposed 
to  "  Roman."  I  do  not  here  use  the  word  Anglican  as  it 
is  adopted  with  reference  to  the  "  Church  of  England  ; " 
but  I  employ  it  in  the  same  sense  as  in  France  the  word 
"  Gallican  "  is  used  in  contradistinction  to  Roman.  And 
in  matters  of  strict  discipline,  ever  since  Bishop  Milner 
planted  the  Roman  Standard  on  the  College  in  the  year 
1808,  it  has  floated  over  St.  Mary's  without  a  rent  and 
without  a  stain.  In  matters  of  mere  opinion  and  taste, 
in  all  those  arrangements  in  which  Popes  not  only  allow 
us,  but  wish  us  to  be  free,  Oscott  has  always  leaned 
rather  to  what  is  English  than  to  what  is  foreign.  To  be 
Roman  in  doctrine  and  in  those  matters  of  discipline 
which  the  Holy  Father  wishes  to  be  universally  observed, 
and  to  be  English,  Irish,  or  Scotch  as  the  case  may  be, 


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in  everything  else,  is,  it  seems  to  me,  a  perfect  rule. 
Fifty  years  ago  that  rule  was  taught  at  Oscott,  and  I 
have  little  doubt  that  it  is  taught  there  now.  A  principle 
of  this  kind  instilled  into  the  thousands  of  young  men  who 
have  gone  from  St.  Mary's  into  the  world,  must  have  had 
a  very  considerable  influence  in  producing  that  combina- 
tion of  obedience  to  the  Holy  See  in  essentials,  and  that 
liberty  in  non-essentials,  which  is  characteristic  of  the 
United  Kingdom. 

In  that  fresh  vigour  which  sprang  up  in  the  Catholic 
Church  in  England  in  the  year  1840,  and  which,  increasing 
as  years  went  by,  has  produced  such  wonderful  effects, 
Oscott  was  conspicuous.  In  the  various  movements  of 
that  time  Oscott  was  in  the  fore-front.  I  must  leave  the 
details  of  this  period  to  the  writer  of  the  article,  "  Oscott, 
the  Centre  of  the  Great  Catholic  Movement."  But  it 
would  be  an  omission  on  my  part  were  I  not  to  mention, 
at  least  in  this  general  way,  that  the  influence  of  Oscott 
on  the  education  of  the  English  Catholics  during  the 
early  days  of  the  general  movement — that  is  between 
1840  and  1850 — is  simply  incalculable.  And  I  must  add 
that  it  was  the  education  at  the  College  in  the  decades 
previous  to  1840  which  prepared  Oscotians  to  enter 
heart  and  soul  into  those  designs  of  Providence  for  which 
all  who  care  to  think  of  past  favours  will  thank  God  to 
the  end  of  their  lives. 

I  have  now,  I  think,  gone  through  most  of  those  points 
in  which  Oscott  has  had  a  great  influence  on  education. 
Oscotians  will  be  glad  to  read  some  other  few  lines 
written  by  Bishop  Amherst,  in  April,  1878.  "  My  visit 
to  Oscott,"  he  says,  "  has  left  a  pleasing  impression  on 
my  mind,  things  are  clearly  going  on  well  and  earnestly." 
These  words  bring  down  a  valuable  testimony  to  just  ten 
years  before  the  present  time.  Though  Bishop  Amherst 
was  naturally  inclined  to  praise,  when  St.  Mary's  was  in 
question,  he  was  still  an  impartial  judge,  and  would  not, 
even  for  his  "  beloved  Oscott,"  have  written  what  he  did 
not  believe  to  be  true.  I  have  another  extract  from 


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Bishop  Amherst's  diary  which  is  so  pleasing  that  it  will, 
I  am  sure,  delight  all  lovers  of  Alma  Mater.  Under  the 
heading  1877,  I  find  the  following: — "  Os'cott,  for  St. 
Cecily's  Play.  Played  a  game  of  billiards  with  the  boys 
at  their  table,  and  saw  several  games.  Was  extremely 
pleased  by  the  manner  and  conduct  of  the  boys — quiet, 
gentlemanlike,  neither  forward  nor  shy,  no  showing  off 
— true  Oscotians."  The  system  at  Oscott  produced  these 
good  manners ;  and  they,  in  their  turn,  must  have  had  a 
great  effect  in  showing  people  in  the  world  what  a  good 
education  is. 

If  the  effect  of  the  Oscott  system  is  to  be  judged  by 
the  men  it  has  produced,  the  College  can  stand  the  test. 
In  the  three  learned  professions  of  Divinity,  Law,  and 
Medicine ;  in  Parliament ;  in  the  Army  and  Navy ;  in 
commerce ;  as  country  gentlemen  useful  in  their  counties, 
some  Oscotians  have  greatly  distinguished  themselves, 
and  many  others  have  attained  very  respectable  positions. 
It  is  not  for  me  here  to  select  names  ;  but  if  (what  I  have 
often  advocated,  both  publicly  and  privately)  a  Biography 
of  Oscotians  were  to  be  compiled,  the  history  of  Oscott 
would  go  very  far  to  show  that  education  at  our  English 
Catholic  Colleges  is  by  no  means  so  far  from  fitting 
young  men  for  public  life  as  some  people  suppose.  Even 
those  best  acquainted  with  the  history  of  Oscott  would, 
I  am  confident,  be  astonished  if  they  were  to  see  collected 
together,  all  that  Oscotians  have  done. 

There  is  one  matter  in  which  St.  Mary's  has  not  shewn 
itself  so  prominently  as  it  might  have  done.  I  mean  in 
the  Records  of  the  London  University.  On  the  question 
whether  it  is  or  is  not  beneficial  to  our  Colleges  to  be  in 
connection  with  the  above  institution  I  do  not  wish  to 
express  any  opinion  whatever.  My  occupations  since  I 
have  been  a  priest,  for  now  nearly  thirty  years,  have  not 
brought  me  into  a  sufficiently  close  connection  with 
College  work  to  enable  me  to  judge  without  taking  the 
opinion  and  advice  of  others.  It  is  better  therefore  to 
say  nothing  on  the  subject.  But  the  mere  fact  that 


PROFESSOR  ST.  GEORGE  MIVART,  PH.D.,  M.D.,  F.R.S. 

(From  a  Photograph  by  T.  Fall,  Baker  Street.) 


OSCOTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  17. 

Men  of  Science, 


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Oscott  has  not  through  its  course  sent  young  men  to 
London  in  anything  like  the  proportion  of  other  Colleges 
has,  I  think,  been  somewhat  detrimental  to  the  College. 
My  reason  for  saying  so  is  this ;  the  consequence  has 
been  that  the  name  of  Oscott  has  dropped  out  of  the  list 
of  Colleges  the  names  of  which  most  frequently  meet  the 
public  eye.  Many  years  ago,  when  Catholic  Colleges 
had  to  be  mentioned  in  general,  two  in  particular  were 
almost  always  named,  and  Oscott  was  one  of  them.  But 
it  will  soon  perhaps  recover  its  position  ;  there  is  a  ten- 
dency to  regain,  by  a  connection  with  the  London 
University,  the  place  which  the  College  once  had,  and 
which,  as  far  as  its  own  intrinsic  merits  are  concerned,  it 
has  never  lost.  St.  Mary's  was  one  of  the  first,  if  not  the 
first  of  our  Colleges,  to  connect  itself  with  the  Institution 
in  Gower  Street.  So  far  back  as  the  year  1839  Dr.  Weedall, 
through  the  Marquis  of  Normanby,  presented  to  the 
young  Queen  a  gold  medal  of  the  College,  in  commemo- 
ration of  its  having  joined  the  London  University.  The 
day  may  come  when  it  will  not  be  in  any  way  useful  to 
be  subject  to  the  London  Senate.  But  till  that  time 
arrives,  or  at  least  so  long  as  our  other  Colleges  send 
students  to  London,  it  may  be  of  considerable  benefit  to 
Oscott  to  do  the  same.* 

The  reader  will  have  observed  that  I  have  not  in  this 
short  article  mentioned  the  names  of  any  living  persons. 
He  will  understand  that  it  has  been  for  obvious  reasons. 
If  I  had  introduced  such  names,  either  I  should  have  had 
great  difficulty  in  the  selection,  or  I  should  not  have 
known  when  to  stop,  in  which  latter  case  the  Editor  of 
the  Oscotian  might  have  considered  that,  in  fairness  to 
other  contributors,  it  was  his  duty  to  reject  half  my 
article. 

I  must  also  add  that  in  setting  forth  what  I  consider 
to  be  praiseworthy  in  the  Oscott  system,  I  have  not  had 
the  smallest  intention  to  make  any  comparison,  much 
less  any  contrast  with  other  schools.  My  wish  has 

*  See  Note  appended  to  this  Article.    [  Ed.  ] 


been  merely  to  put  before  the  reader,  on  this  occasion 
of  the  Jubilee  of  the  New  College,  what  is  commend- 
able in  St.  Mary's.  If  other  Colleges  have  all  or  any 
of  the  good  qualities  I  have  mentioned,  so  much  the 
better.  So  that  it  would  be  as  unreasonable  to  say 
that  any  reflection  has  been  cast  upon  any  other  school, 
as  it  would  be  to  assert  that  the  omission  of  the  name 
of  Caesar  in  an  eulogium  of  the  first  Emperor  Napoleon, 
was  a  reflection  on  the  great  Roman  soldier. 

In  conclusion,  I  may  trench  a  little  again  on  the 
ground  of  another  writer  in  this  Jubilee  number  of  the 
Oscotian,  and  say  that  if  the  old  spirit  of  St.  Mary's  is 
maintained,  the  good  effects  of  Oscott  upon  education 
will,  I  have  no  doubt,  under  the  patronage  of  the  Great 
Mother  of  God,  be  even  more  conspicuous  in  the  future 
than  they  have  been  in  the  past. 

WILLIAM  J.  AMHERST,  SJ. 

NOTE. 

It  is  quite  true,  as  Fr.  Amherst  says,  that  Oscott  has  not 
in  the  past  presented  as  many  candidates  for  the 
examinations  of  the  London  University  as  other 
colleges.  We  may  go  a  step  further  and  say  that 
Oscott  is  debarred,  by  the  class  of  boys  that  go  to 
make  it  up,  from  proving  a  formidable  rival  in  this 
respect.  For  as  Oscott  boys  are  chiefly  destined  for 
the  Army  or  Navy,  the  Law,  or  Diplomacy,  or  the 
Foreign  Office,  for  farming  or  commerce,  they  are 
engaged  in  preparing  for  examinations  that  gain 
admission  to  their  respective  professions,  not  in 
matriculating  at  London,  which  will  be  of  little  or  no 
advantage  to  them  It  seems  to  be  forgotten  that 
we  live  in  an  age  of  public  examinations  ;  that  every 
profession  has  an  examination  peculiar  to  itself ;  that 
matriculation  at  London,  though  useful  as  an 
academic  exercise,  is  not  an  entrance  to  the  pro- 
fessions. Instead,  therefore,  of  directing  its  energies 


CHARLES  RENT, 

(JEtat  40). 
(From  a  Photograph  by  Charles  Wat  kins.) 


OSCOTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  18. 

Hen  of  Letters. 


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to  an  examination  that  is  not  to  the  purpose,  Oscott 
is  engaged  in  the  more  practical,  if  less  showy,  work 
of  shaping  its  boys  for  their  future  career.     We  are 
wholly  unable   to   understand    why    success   at    the 
London  University  should  be  looked  upon  as  the  one 
criterion   of   efficiency,   and   why   success    in   other 
spheres  should  be  ignored.     If  a  test  is  to  be  applied, 
let  it  be  an  all-round  test,  not  a  test  circumscribed 
by  London.    Judged  by  this  wider  and  more  compre- 
hensive standard,  Oscott  can  challenge  the  severest 
scrutiny  ;  indeed,  Fr.  Amherst  himself  acknowledges 
in   the   previous    paragraph   that    Oscott    has   been 
eminently  successful  in  fitting  young  men  for  public 
life.      It    is    worth    noting  that  the  great  majority 
of    students   who    matriculate    from     our    Catholic 
colleges    are    those   destined    for  the    Church,   and 
of    these    Oscott    has     always    had     a    very    small 
proportion.     If  matriculation  should  ever  be  declared 
to  be  an  indispensable  preliminary  to  admission  into 
Divinity,  Oscott  will  then  be  in  a  position  to  hold  its 
own  to  the  full.    Thus  Oscott's  comparative  abstention 
arises  not  from  choice  but  from  necessity — from  the 
very  nature  of  its  constitution.     But  while  Oscott  has 
never   subordinated   its  course  to   London,  but   has 
rather  adapted  it  to  the  requirements  of  its  boys,  it 
has   always   been   glad    to   take   advantage   of  any 
opportunity  that  offered  of  sending  boys  to  matricu- 
late ;    and   a  glance  at  the  records  of  the   London 
University  will  show  that  its  success  has  not  been 
so  scanty  as  is  generally  supposed.     Certainly  the 
percentage  of  passes  is  quite  up  to  the  average.     Nor 
should  it  be  forgotten  that  a  very  large  number  of 
Oscott  boys  matriculate  at  Trinity  College,  Dublin, 
in  preference  to  London.     In  support  of  our  conten- 
tion we  have,  in  our  list  of  names,  noted  the  fact  of 
matriculating  at  London  ;  but  as  the  idea  suggested 
itself  only  after  Father  Amherst's  article  was  in  type, 
we  fear  that  the  list  will  of  necessity  lack  completeness. 
— [  Editor  of  THE  OSCOTIAN.  ] 


6o 


Cfje  Spirit  of  ©scott 


"  IT  is  the  soul  of  a  man,  rather  than  his  body,  which  is 
himself,  and  which  we  truly  love  in  wife,  or  child,  or 
friend,  or  brother.  And  it  is  the  soul  which,  under  God, 
is  the  source  of  beauty  to  the  body.  There  is  no  specu- 
lation in  the  eye,  no  charm  of  hue  or  lustre  on  brow  or 
cheek,  no  rippling  smile  on  the  lip,  or  fire  of  eloquence 
on  the  tongue,  but  owes  its  origin  to  '  the  spirit  which 
quickeneth '  within  ;  and  '  the  flesh  profiteth  nothing '  save 
only  as  it  may  furnish  an  apter  medium  whereby  to 
render  the  subtle  graces  of  the  soul.  And  yet  the  soul 
itself  we  can  neither  see  nor  touch,  nor  perceive  by  means 
of  any  of  the  senses.  Though  near  to  us,  it  is  as  if  far 
off:  the  closest  embrace  is  void  ;  we  only  clasp  the  dust 
and  ashes."* 

Gentle  Charles  Meynell !  The  hand  that  penned  those 
words  is  even  now  dust  and  ashes  :  and,  long  before,  the 
Alma  Mater  that  it  clung  so  lovingly  to  had  turned  to 
ashes  in  its  clasp ;  yet  surely  the  spirits  are  not  sundered 
— the  spirit  of  the  Prophet  of  Oscott,  and  the  Oscotian 
spirit  by  which,  and  of  which,  he  prophesied.  Spiritus 
est  qui  mvificat.  To  him,  as  in  a  way  to  many  another 
loving  child  of  Oscott,  the  face  of  our  mother  seemed  to 
change.  We  came  back  to  her,  after  long  thinking  of 
her  from  afar,  and  we  confessed  her  other  than  she  was. 
And  for  a  while,  maybe,  we  were  tempted  to  think  that 
we  scarcely  loved  her  as  of  old.  Were  not  her  wrinkles 
strangely  deep  ?  Was  not  her  colour  gone  from  her  face, 
and  her  smile  turned  to  sadness  ?  But  who  is  this  laugh- 
ing boy  running  to  greet  us  from  under  the  Tudor  porch  ? 
A  young  Oscotian,  surely.  "  Did  you  ever  hear,  my  lad, 
of  Charles  Meynell?"  "  Oh,  yes,  sir,  he  wrote  some  fusty, 

*  Sermons  for  the  Spring  Quarter,    p.  202. 


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musty  sermons,  didn't  he  ?  I  think  there  is  a  copy  some- 
where in  the  library.  But  never  mind  books  now  ;  come 
to  the  cricket  ground.  The  Present  is  having  its  innings, 
and  the  Past  is  sure  to  be  jolly  well  licked.  Come  along, 
Sir." 

"  Yes,  you  are  right,  my  boy  ;  though  you  put  it  a  little 
roughly.  I'll  come  along  ;  but  you  cannot  expect  me  to 
be  cheery  over  the  downfall  of  the  Past ;  for  /  am  past, 
you  know."  "  Oh,  never  mind  about  that,"  laughs  out  the 
boy  ; "  you  ought  to  be  glad  the  Present  wins — that  is 
if  you  have  any  Oscotian  spirit  in  you,  sir."  Right 
again  !  "  Are  you  a  philosopher,  my  boy  ?  "  "  Not  I ;  I 
wish  I  were.  I  shan't  be  one  till  next  September.  But 
it  doesn't  take  a  philosopher  to  know  that  you  ought  to 
be  very  glad  that  the  Present  wins,  for  that  is  the  real 
Oscott,  you  know,  sir ;  and  the  real  Oscott  spirit  is  in 
those  fellows  on  the  cricket  ground  there,  and  not  in  any 
of  your  old  books  in  the  library."  "  But,  my  boy,  what 
is  the  real  Oscott  spirit  of  which  you  make  so  sure  ?  " 
"  Well,  I  can't  say  what  it  is ;  but  I  know  there  was 
never  more  of  it  in  the  house,  and  the  fellows  are  awfully 
fond  of  the  old  place.  Browne,  upstairs,  is  crying  his 
eyes  out  because  he  has  to  leave  this  vacs.  But  then  he 
is  a  bit  of  a  muff;  a  fellow  shouldn't  cry.  The  house 
won't  fall  because  he  leaves  it.  ...  By  Jove,  that  is 
something  like  a  hit!  Hurrah  for  the  Present!"  And 
with  perhaps  a  tinge  of  bitterness  I  answered,  "  Hurrah 
for  Old  Oscott !"  But  the  boy  didn't  mind  me  as  he  ran 
cheering  for  the  fellow  who  hit  so  hard  for  the  Present 
against  the  Past. 

And  he  left  me  in  the  humour  to  answer  my  own 
question :  What  is  the  Spirit  of  Oscott  ?  Poor  Dr. 
Meynell  used  to  take  refuge  in  Greek,  and  speak  of  the 
^#09  of  Oscott :  but  the  transmigration  of  the  Spirit  from 
English  to  Greek  resulted  in — Greek  !  I  have  found  a 
Latin  word  that  satisfies  me,  as  wide  enough  and 
at  the  same  time  definite  enough,  to  name  what  I  hold  to 
be  the  characteristic  Spirit  of  Oscott.  The  word  is 


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Pietas :  and  the  nearest  English  word,  in  its  loftiness  and 
largeness,  is  Loyalty.  Our  Alma  Mater  is  our  Mater 
Pia  also,  in  her  loyal  care  of  us,  in  the  love  she  bore  us 
when  we  were  boys  with  her,  and  in  the  love  with  which 
she  has  so  faithfully  pursued  us  and  brought  us,  many  of 
us  very  often  and  after  years  of  absence — children  still — 
to  her  side  and  beneath  the  roof-tree  of  our  College 
home.  Loyal  she  has  been  to  her  sons  :  loyal,  and  right 
loyal,  have  they  been  to  her.  Contentiously  loyal, 
betimes,  as  that  boy  and  I  were,  using  stout  words  when 
particular  views  of  the  Mother's  rights  are  questioned  ; 
yet  with  much  tenderness  beneath  all — in  the  young 
hearts  that  have  no  idea  how  much  they  love  her,  in  our 
seared  hearts  that  cherish  that  loyalty  and  love  as  some- 
thing too  dear  and  too  pure  even  to  find  another  such. 
That  devotion  of  Oscott  to  Oscotians,  past  and  present, 
and  of  Oscotians  to  Oscott  as  they  knew  and  as  they 
know  her,  that  mutual  loyalty  of  Mother  and  Sons,  is 
doubtless  to  the  outside  world  the  most  evident  mark  of 
the  Spirit  of  Oscott. 

Then  there  is  the  loyalty  of  Oscotians  to  one  another. 
I  remember  a  worthy  Baronet,  a  father  and  grandfather 
of  Oscotians,  declaring  that  it  made  him  young  again  to 
bring  Oscott  boys  together  at  his  table.  "  I  declare 
you'd  think  they'd  hug  one  another.  I  never  saw  any- 
thing like  those  Oscott  boys."  What  he  said  many  have 
thought  and  said — that  Oscotians  stick  together.  Not 
with  the  spirit  of  exclusiveness — though  at  times,  doubt- 
less, some  are  open  to  that  charge — but  with  the  spirit 
of  brothers,  sons  of  one  mother,  united,  if  in  nothing  else, 
at  least  in  love  for  her.  To  those  of  us  who  live  in 
another  land,  to  some  especially — as  to  the  present 
writer — to  whom  the  loyal  fellowship  of  the  "  sea-divided 
Gael"  is  a  never-failing  theme  of  praise,  there  is  a 
pathetic  beauty  in  this  loyalty  of  sea-divided  Oscotians. 
There  is  the  pleasant  fact,  that  parted  in  almost  every 
other  way,  in  race,  in  politics,  in  avocations,  in  social 
status,  in  almost  all  views  of  life  and  all  manners  of 


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living — aye  and  parted  even  as  men  in  hostile  camps — 
yet  are  all  sorts  and  conditions  of  Oscotians  united  in 
the  sweet  and  loyal  memory  of  that  home  upon  the 
Warwickshire  hill,  and  all  the  grace  and  love  that  nestled 
there  under  the  name  and  invocation  of  Mary.  Our 
Lady  of  Oscott !  I  often  heard  her  so  spoken  of,  and  I 
know  she  has  been  so  spoken  to.  She  is  the  Queen  to 
whom  these  loyal  hearts  are  true,  and  the  source  of  their 
mutual  fidelity.  To  her  shrine  they  turn  ;  to  her  shrine 
upon  the  hill  save  those  aged  hearts  that  loved  her  in  the 
valley  half  a  century  ago ;  there  they  all  meet  in  spirit, 
in  the  spirit  of  Oscott,  and  feuds  are  forgotten,  and  all 
bitterness,  and  old  suns  rise  again  and  dead  friendships 
quicken.  O  Alma  Mater,  be  ever  thus,  the  loyal  mother 
of  united  sons,  the  joy  of  those  that  love  as  in  the  old 
days,  the  pain  of  those  that  even  in  your  sweet  presence 
stand  aloof,  parted,  alas,  beyond  hope,  but  loyal  still 
to  you ! 

The  words,  however,  of  my  boyish  Mentor  remind  me 
that  all  this  Spirit  of  Past  Oscotians  is  but  the  outcome, 
or,  rather,  the  continuation,  of  that  Spirit  as  it  is  found 
in  the  Oscott  master  and  the  Oscott  boy  in  the  happy 
days  of  "  Present  Oscott."  It  is  there  we  must  seek  the 
fountain-head  of  that  loyalty  of  mother  to  sons  and  of 
sons  to  mother,  the  firstlings  of  that  noble  spirit  which 
not  all  the  selfishness  of  the  after  world  can  tempt  from 
its  allegiance.  It  is  there  we  must  seek  the  first  compact 
of  that  bond  between  Oscotian  and  Oscotian  which,  even 
amid  a  hundred  later  ties,  remains  the  fastest  of  them 
all.  The  spirit  of  Oscott,  then,  as  found  in  its  college 
home,  is  the  spirit  of  loyal  trustfulness  of  master  in  boy 
and  boy  in  master.  All  that  is  characteristic  in  the 
tradition  of  the  college  has  its  origin  and  explanation  in 
those  relations.  They  have  come  to  be  the  fashion  now 
elsewhere.  They  were  always  the  ways  of  Oscott. 
They  are  experiments  in  other  schools,  and  as  experi- 
ments are  more  or  less  successful.  At  Oscott  they 
were  the  relations  between  masters  and  boys  gene- 
rations back  —  between  Oscotian  masters  and  boys 


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who  have  grown  old  long  since,  and  are  dead  and 
buried.  If  the  aisles  of  old  Bandy  Woods  could  be 
filled  with  the  ghosts  of  those  who  a  hundred  years 
ago  drove  the  ball  in  and  out  between  the  beechen 
pillars,  we  should  see  there  grandfathers  and  great-grand- 
fathers of  the  players  now,  contesting  side  by  side  with 
the  masters  of  those  far  off  days,  all  as  united  in  affection 
and  generous  trust  as  the  boys  and  masters  of  to-day. 
College  discipline,  framed  and  administered  on  such 
principles,  grew  to  be  the  pride  of  all  alike,  and  those 
that  ruled  and  those  that  were  ruled  by  it  shared  in  the 
desire  to  uphold  it.  The  very  suspicion  of  a  discipline  of 
distrust,  of  espionage  from  above  or  want  of  honour  from 
below,  was  ever  abhorrent  to  the  Spirit  of  Oscott.  Out 
went  the  "  sneak "  :  out  from  the  ranks  above  or  from 
the  ranks  below,  it  mattered  not — out  he  went.  And 
there  arose,  as  the  natural  sequence,  a  great  tradition  of 
conscientiousness.  Indeed  this  is  one  of  the  secondary 
meanings  of  my  Latin  word,  Pietas:  for  loyal  trust  has 
ever  this  result  that  it  is  itself  a  discipline,  and  that 
Conscience,  finding  so  grave  a  charge  entrusted  to  it, 
braces  itself  to  the  task  and  proves  itself  worthy  of  its 
high  commission.  Hence  an  Oscott  boy  was  a  boy  with 
whom  Honour  was  the  great  Prefect,  and  for  whom  the 
bitterest  punishment  would  be  the  feelings  that  his 
honour  was  doubted  :  better  any  amount  of  the  ferule  or 
the  cane  than  that !  The  thought  of  that  would  rankle, 
and  in  many  a  case,  when  the  doubt  was  unjust  and 
undeserved,  that  pain  remained,  and  still  remains  when 
"  lickings  "  and  "  canings  "  have  become  subjects  for  a 
jest. 

The  manly  performance  "of  difficult  and  even  perilous 
duty  may  be  set  down  as  the  first  result  of  this  loyal 
conscientiousness,  and  that  such  has  been  the  case 
amongst  the  sons  of  Oscott  needs  scarcely  mention  here. 
These  pages  bear  ample  testimony  to  the  fruits  of  man- 
liness and  even  heroism  borne  by  the  Spirit  of  Oscott, 
whether  in  the  higher  fields  of  Apostolic  patience,  or  the 


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lowlier  bravery  of  Christian  soldiers  and  sailors  by  land 
and  sea.  If  Waterloo  was  won  on  the  fields  of  Eton, 
many  another  battle — and  many  a  greater,  if  human 
suffering  and  daring  make  a  conflict  great — was  won  in 
the  "  bounds  "  of  Oscott,  and  under  the  beeches  of  the 
Bandy  Woods.  The  loyal  interdependence  of  master  and 
boy,  the  rule  kept  though  no  eye  save  that  of  the  Great 
Master  could  mark  its  infringement,  the  free  sacrifice  of 
a  quarter  of  an  hour's  play  for  Rosary  or  for  a  visit  to 
our  Lady's  shrine,  these  belonged  to  the  same  spirit  that 
a  few  years  after  led  the  soldier  or  the  sailor  to  a  fearless 
death  beside  his  guns,  or  the  missioner  to  a  grave  among 
the  heathen,  or  the  patriot  to  the  scorn  of  friends  and  the 
severance  of  dearest  ties.  The  lines  of  Burns,  old 
favourites  of  many  at  Oscott,  might  have  been  the 
motto  of  such  : — 

"  But  where  ye  feel  your  honour  grip, 
Let  that  aye  be  your  border." 

That  grip  has  been  at  times  a  death-grip,  but,  thank 
God,  it  has  been  the  border-line  of  all  true  sons  of  St. 
Mary's.  May  it  be  ever  so.  The  spirit  that  quickened 
quickens  still.  Changes  in  the  outward  garb,  changes  as 
it  were  of  the  flesh,  that  "  profiteth  nothing,"  such  have 
been  and  will  be  to  the  end  ;  but  there  need  be  no 
change  in  the  spirit.  As  long  as  Oscott  looks  down  on 
to  the  valley  from  whence  she  once  looked  up,  and  even 
when  her  towers  and  courts  as  we  know  and  love  them 
have  crumbled,  and  when,  perchance,  another  Oscott — 
other,  yet  the  same — may  arise  elsewhere,  unchangingly 
amid  the  vicissitudes  of  time,  may  her  Spirit  still 
quicken  the  generations  to  come,  uniting  Past  and 
Present  in  loyalty  to  what  is  just  and  free  and  honourable, 
and  keeping  pure  and  safe  amid  a  rising  tide  of  corruption, 
the  Ark  that  has  borne  already,  for  a  hundred  years,  so 
many  trustful  hearts — the  Ark  that  bears  the  name  of 
Mary. 

A.    R. 


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from  tfje  2?ecor6s  of  ©scott, 
1838  - 1888. 


OSCOTT,  having  honourably  celebrated  the  Jubilee  year  of 
our  Holy  Father  Leo  XIII.,  and  Her  Gracious  Majesty 
Queen  Victoria,  and  thus  manifested  her  loyalty  and 
devotion  to  both  spiritual  and  temporal  authorities,  now 
presents  an  opportunity  to  her  alumni  and  friends  of 
celebrating  the  completion  of  the  first  fifty  years  of 
earnest  work  nobly  executed  within  the  walls  of  her  New 
Foundation  :  and  there  are  probably  few  Oscotians,  if 
any,  to  be  found,  who  will  not  gladly  unite  in  offering 
their  grateful  tribute  of  sincere  congratulation  to  their 
Alma  Mater  on  so  auspicious  an  occasion. 

The  history  of  those  fifty  years  has  yet  to  be  written, 
and  an  abler  pen  must  apply  itself  to  the  task,  but  at 
least  in  this  Jubilee  year  it  may  be  interesting  to  bring 
into  prominence  a  few  of  the  landmarks  of  Oscott's 
history,  and  therefore  the  following  pages  are  humbly 
offered  by  a  "  gleaner  after  time  "  as  a  record  perhaps  not 
altogether  unacceptable. 

It  is  too  early  also  to  write  a  complete  history  of  those 
days,  for  of  the  ten  who  have  occupied  the  presidential 
chair,  four  are  with  us  still,  whilst  six  have  gone  to  their 
reward.  It  may,  however,  without  offence,  be  said  of 
them  ';  Tot  capita,  tot  sensus,"  yet  in  justice  it  must  also 
be  said,  that  whatever  their  varying  modes  of  rule  may 
have  been,  they  were  undoubtedly,  one  and  all,  influenced 
by  a  singleness  of  purpose,  viz.,  the  promotion  of  the 
welfare  and  prosperity  of  the  College  entrusted  to  their 
care. 


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What  the  results  of  their  labours  have  been  it  is  not  the 
purpose  of  this  present  writing  to  show,  but  if  testimony 
were  needed,  the  church  and  the  learned  professions,  the 
army  and  navy,  and  many  an  old  homestead  in  England 
and  Ireland  could  tell  how  many  ornaments  to  their 
profession,  and  how  many  saintly  men  Oscott  has 
produced.  And  many  of  them  have  fearlessly  and 
repeatedly  proclaimed  that  it  was  to  Oscott,  next  to  the 
grace  of  God,  that  they  attributed  the  measure  of  their 
success. 

Before  proceeding  to  consider  the  historical  incidents 
of  the  New  Foundation  it  will  be  necessary  to  dwell  for 
a  moment  on  the  earlier  history  of  the  College.  And  first 
with  regard  to  its  name.  No  one,  as  far  as  is  known,  has 
ever  attempted  to  throw  any  light  on  the  etymology  of 
the  word  Oscott,  yet  it  is  a  question  of  some  interest.  A 
large  number  of  villages  and  hamlets  in  the  neighbour- 
hood bear  names  terminating  in  "  cote,"  and  since  many 
of  these  are  undoubtedly  of  Celtic  origin,  possibly  the 
terminal  syllable  of  Oscott  is  also  derived  from  "  coit," 
"coed,"  a  wood  or  grove.  The  origin  however  of  the 
distinguishing  particle, "  os  "  or  "  aus,"  is  not  so  clear.  We 
know  also  that  "  Oscot "  or  "  Osgod  "  was  a  famous  per- 
sonal name  in  the  time  of  Canute  the  Dane.  Osgod 
Clapa  was  the  Constable  of  the  Kingdom  in  Canute's 
days,  and  singularly  too  there  was  a  moneyor  at  York  at 
the  same  time  bearing  the  name  of  Osgod  and  Oscot,  so 
that  grounds  are  not  wanting  for  attributing  the  now 
familiar  name  to  some  Danish  settler.  There  is  likewise 
the  Saxon  "  cot,  cote,"  which  signifies  a  hut,  cottage,  or 
enclosure,  so  that  it  seems  hard  to  decide  whence  Oscott 
derived  its  name.  Possibly  future  research  may  result  in 
some  more  decided  and  satisfactory  opinion. 

In  a  secluded  valley  some  two  miles  westward  of  the 
present  College  there  was,  in  1679,  a  cottage  residence 
occupied  by  a  missionary  priest — the  Rev.  Andrew 
Bromwich.  This  good  priest  lived  in  troublous  times, 
for  on  August  13,  1679,  he  was  tried  and  condemned  to 


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death  at  Stafford  for  being  a  priest  resident  in  this 
country.  He  was  subsequently,  however,  reprieved  and 
returned  to  his  home  at  Oscott  where  he  died  in  1702. 
Other  missionary  clergy  succeeded  him  till,  in  1794,  the 
old  house  was  enlarged  and  opened  as  a  college  and 
seminary,  and  the  history  of  those  years  down  to  1838 
has  already  been  recorded  by  the  Rev.  W.  J.  Amherst,  S.J., 
in  the  pages  of  the  Oscotian. 

Many  and  great  were  the  inconveniences  of  the  old 
house  as  the  number  of  students  increased,  till  at  last  it 
was  found  impossible  to  enlarge  and  extend  it  further. 
In  the  year  1835  negotiations  were  entered  into  with  Mr. 
Richard  Fowler  for  the  purchase  of  an  estate  denominated 
"  Hawthorn  Farm,"  then  in  his  possession.  The  terms  were 
finally  settled  on  the  25th  of  March,  and  £7,152  paid  for 
the  land, consisting  of  1 5 1  acres  2  roods  17  poles,the  greater 
portion  lying  in  the  parish  of  Aston,  and  10  acres  within 
the  parish  of  Sutton  Coldfield.  The  "field  names" 
present  no  special  feature  of  interest  save  that  of  one 
described  as  "  Jordan's  grave,"  which  is  now  a  portion  of 
the  plantations.  Active  preparations  were  at  once  made 
for  the  erection  of  the  New  College,  and  Mr.  Potter,  an 
architect  of  Lichfield,  appointed  to  take  charge  of  the 
work.  In  this  he  was  ably  assisted  by  the  Rev.  John 
Kirk,  of  Lichfield,  who  was  thoroughly  acquainted  with 
the  requirements  of  a  College  and  Seminary,  and  to 
whom  indeed  is  attributed  the  greater  part  of  the  design 
of  the  interior  arrangements.  All  the  decorative  stone 
work  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  Roddis,  of  Birming- 
ham, and  there  is  something  more  than  a  tradition  that 
the  statue  of  Our  Lady  over  the  entrance  to  the 
Church  was  perfected  by  Chantrey,  the  eminent  sculptor, 
who  was  a  friend  of  Mr.  Roddis.  Much  of  the  interior 
decoration,  and  especially  of  the  Church,  was  designed 
and  directed  by  Mr.  A.  W.  Pugin,  then  indeed  but  a 
young  man  barely  twenty  years  of  age,  yet  possessed  of 
marvellous  abilities.  The  work  rapidly  proceeded,  since 
a  doorway  opening  out  of  the  cloister  into  the  quadrangle 


AUGUSTUS  WELBY  PUGIN, 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  19. 


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bears  on  its  lintel  the  date  1835,  which  probably  indicates 
the  period  of  its  completion. 

On  the  28th  of  April,  1836,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Walsh, 
attended  by  about  thirty  of  the  clergy,  solemnly  laid  the 
first  stone  of  the  Chapel  of  the  New  College ;  on  which 
occasion  the  Rev.  Thos.  McDonnell,  of  St.  Peter's, 
Birmingham,  delivered  an  extemporaneous  and  powerful 
discourse.  Towards  the  close  of  1837  the  Chapel  was 
completed,  and  the  Sanctuary  with  its  beautiful  groined 
roof  admirably  decorated  by  Mr.  Pugin.  The  Sanctuary 
is  lighted  by  a  central  and  two  side  windows.  In  the 
centre  Cur  Lady  is  represented  crowned  and  bearing  in 
her  arms  the  Sacred  Infant,  and  attended  on  her  right  by 
St.  Gregory  the  Great  and  St.  Catherine,  and  by  St. 
Thomas  of  Canterbury  and  St.  Cecilia  on  her  left. 
St.  Thomas  is  represented  in  an  attitude  of  supplication 
to  the  Virgin,  and  bearing  a  scroll  on  which  are  the 
words,  "  interveni  pro  clero." 

The  side  windows,  of  three  lights  each,  contain  on  the 
gospel  side  the  figures  of  SS.  John,  Bartholomew,  Peter, 
Matthew,  Philip  and  Thaddeus  ;  and  on  the  epistle  side 
those  of  SS.  James,  Paul,  Simon,  Thomas,  James  and 
Andrew. 

In  the  lower  portion  of  the  central  lights  in  each  side 
window  are  representations  of  kneeling  figures  in  heraldic 
attire.  On  the  epistle  side  is  that  of  a  man  in  armour 
bearing  on  his  surcoat  the  following  blazon  : — "  Argent, 
a  base  vert,  thereon  a  poplar  tree  supported  by  two  lions 
rampant,  proper,  crowned  or."  These  are  the  arms  of 
Gandolfi  of  Lagneto,  nobles  of  Genoa.  On  the  gospel 
side  a  female  figure  is  represented  bearing  on  her  mantle 
the  foregoing  blazon  impaling  "  azure,  on  a  bend  embat- 
tled counter  embattled,  argent,  a  wolf  passant  between 
two  escallops  sable."  These  are  the  arms  of  Hornyold 
of  Blackmore  Park,  Worcestershire. 

These  windows  were  designed  by  Pugin  and  executed 
by  Warrington  of  London,  and  mark  an  era  in  the 
history  of  glass  staining  in  this  country.  They  were 


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erected  in  1838  "as  a  remembrance  of  having  been 
educated  at  Old  Oscott "  by  Mr.  John  Vincent  Gandolfi 
of  East  Sheen,  co.  Surrey,  heir  of  the  marquisates  of 
Gandolfi,  Melati,  and  Montecresengio  (who  assumed  the 
name  and  arms  of  Hornyold  in  1859),  and  to  perpetuate 
the  memory  of  his  parents,  John  Vincent  Gandolfi  (who 
died  1818)  and  Teresa  his  wife  (who  died  1860),  daughter 
of  Thomas  Hornyold  of  Blackmore  Park  (who  died 
1813)  and  sister  and  heiress  of  Thomas  Charles  Hornyold 
(an  Oscotian),  who  died  Jan.  17,  1859.  Thus  the  hopes 
and  desires  of  many  years  were  more  than  fulfilled  when 
the  noble  pile  of  collegiate  buildings  and  the  magnificent 
church  were  completed  and  stood  awaiting  the  dedication 
in  the  early  days  of  1838. 

Over  the  entrance  to  the  college  Dr.  Walsh  inscribed 
the  legend,  "  Religioni  ac  bonis  artibus,"  to  serve  as  an 
enduring  record  of  the  intention  of  the  Founder,  and  to 
point  out  to  each  student  as  he  entered  beneath  it  what 
the  aim  and  the  order  of  his  future  labours  should  be. 
And  it  is  a  subject  for  consolation  and  congratulation  to 
the  college  in  this  Jubilee  year  to  realise  how  many  have 
successfully  learned  the  lesson. 

1838.  On  Tuesday,  May  29th,  the  High  Altar  was 
consecrated  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Walsh,  the  relics  of 
SS.  Peter,  Agnes,  Jerome  and  Philomena  having  been 
placed  therein ;  and  on  the  Thursday  following  the 
church  was  solemnly  dedicated  to  Our  Lady  and  opened 
for  public  worship.  The  magnificence  of  the  ceremony 
was  especially  striking  in  those  days,  for  the  Pontifical 
High  Mass  was  in  all  probability  the  grandest  that  had 
ever  been  witnessed  in  England  since  the  overthrow  of 
religion  in  the  sixteenth  century.  The  celebrant  was  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Walsh,  who  was  attended  by  the  President 
Dr.  Weedall  as  assistant  priest,  the  Revds.  John  Moore  and 
J.  Nickolds  officiating  as  deacon  and  subdeacon,  and  the 
Revds.  G.  Jefferies  and  James  Moore  as  assistant  deacons 
at  the  throne.  There  were  present  also  the  Rt.  Revds. 
Dr.  Baines  and  Dr.  Briggs,  Bishops  respectively  of  the 


Western  and  Northern  districts,  and  amongst  other 
dignitaries  occupying  positions  in  the  stalls  was  the 
Very  Rev.  W.  B.  Ullathorne,  O.S.B.,  then  Vicar  General 
of  New  South  Wales,  now  the  Venerable  Archbishop 
of  Cabasa.  The  ceremonies  were  conducted  by  the 
Rev.  J.  Brown  (afterwards  Bishop  of  Shrewsbury)  and 
Mr.  A.  Welby  Pugin,  who  had  been  appointed  Professor 
of  Ecclesiastical  Antiquities  to  the  College.  The  sermon 
was  preached  by  Dr.  Weedall,  who  delivered  a  most 
eloquent  discourse,  based  on  the  vi.  chapter  of  Esdras. 

August  1st.  The  students  who  had  remained  in 
residence  at  the  Old  College  during  the  usual  summer 
vacation,  removed  to  the  New  College  on  this  day  ;  and 
shortly  after  the  opening,  the  remains  of  several  alumni, 
who  had  died  at  the  Old  College  and  had  been  there 
interred,  were  removed  to  the  vaults  beneath  the 
Sanctuary  of  the  new  church.  They  were  those  of 
John  Chrysostom  Payne,  Charles  Hanford,  Maurice 
O'Connell,  and  Groby  Ferrers. 

The  learned  Dr.  Rock,  chaplain  to  the  Earl  of  Shrews- 
bury, visited  the  College  on  October  ist. 

1839.  March  i6th.  The  first  ordination  at  the  New 
College  was  held  on  this  day,  when  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Walsh 
conferred  the  Sacred  Order  of  the  Priesthood  on  the 
Revs.  James  Griffin,  George  Jefferies,  George  Bent,  and 
B.  Bonney. 

June  1 5th.  A  valuable  present,  unique  of  its  kind,  was 
made  on  this  date  to  the  College.  It  consisted  of  a 
History  of  England  from  the  Roman  to  the  end  of  the 
Tudor  period,  in  twelve  large  folio  volumes,  made  up  of 
a  series  of  engravings,  with  occasional  remarks  and 
illustrations,  extracted  from  different  authors  ;  and  like- 
wise of  fifty  volumes  of  Travels,  large  folios,  containing 
descriptive  drawings  and  letters,  both  the  work  of  James 
Forbes,  F.R.S.  This  collection  was  presented  to  Oscott 
College  by  Charles  Count  de  Montalembert,  the  grandson 
of  the  author.  The  following  is  the  inscription  on  the 


first  page,  in  the  handwriting  of  Count  Montalembert : — 
"This  collection  is  presented  to  the  Catholic  College  of 
St.  Mary's,  Oscott,  as  the  best  means  of  preserving  it, 
and  as  a  token  of  great  respect  and  ardent  sympathy  by 
the  author's  grandson,  Charles  Count  de  Montalembert, 
June  15,  1839." 

August  1 5th.  The  Festival  of  the  Assumption  was 
celebrated  with  great  magnificence  and  an  eloquent 
sermon  preached  by  Dr.  Weedall.  It  was  a  day  of  happy 
memory  to  Oscotians,  being  the  45th  anniversary  of  the 
foundation  and  solemn  dedication  of  the  Old  College, 
and  the  3ist  anniversary  of  its  re-dedication  by  the  "  New 
Government."  Amongst  the  visitors  present  on  this 
occasion  were  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  the  Prince  and 
Princess  Doria,  Sir  Patrick  and  Lady  Bellew  and  family, 
Dr.  Wiseman,  Messrs.  Talbot,  Clifford,  and  Wolseley.  It 
was  about  this  date  that  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury  pre- 
sented a  valuable  collection  of  pictures  to  the  College. 

On  Monday,  the  28th  of  October,  a  most  interesting 
meeting  was  held  in  the  library  at  Oscott,  when,  in 
presence  of  a  large  number  of  the  clergy  and  friends  of 
the  College,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Walsh  made  a  formal 
presentation  of  the  celebrated  Marini  Library  which,  by 
the  advice  of  Dr.  Wiseman,  he  had  recently  purchased 
in  Rome.  Addresses  were  subsequently  presented  to 
Dr.  Walsh  and  Dr.  Wiseman,  numerous  speeches  made, 
odes  recited,  and  music  not  forgotten.  It  may  be  worth 
noting  that  Dr.  Weedall,  in  gracefully  acknowledging  the 
benefaction,  expressed  the  wish  that  as  the  Bodleian  had 
rescued  the  name  of  Sir  Thomas  Bodley  from  oblivion, 
so  the  Walshian  Library  should  pass  current  on  the 
tongue  when  time  and  tides  should  have  carried  the 
founder  to  his  monument.  It  is  gratifying  to  know  that 
this  wish  has  been,  and  is  still  being  fulfilled. 

1840.  On  the  1 8th  of  February  a  Royal  Warrant 
was  issued  admitting  St.  Mary's  College,  Oscott,  to 
participate  in  the  privileges  conferred  by  Royal  Charter 
on  the  University  of  London. 


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The  Rev.  Dr.  Weedall  announced  on  the  26th  of  March 
that  a  preparatory  school  had  been  opened  for  children 
of  younger  years  at  the  old  college,  and  placed  under 
the  care  of  the  Rev.  W.  Foley. 

Her  Majesty  Queen  Victoria  celebrated  her  marriage 
with  H.R.H.  Prince  Albert,  Duke  of  Saxony,  Prince  of 
Saxe-Coburg  and  Gotha,  on  Feb.  the  ioth,and  on  the  i8th 
of  March  the  superiors  and  students  of  Oscott  presented 
an  illuminated  address  of  congratulation  accompanied  by 
a  beautifully  executed  gold  medal  of  the  college.  This 
"  loyal  and  dutiful  address  "  and  "  elegant  medal  "  were 
graciously  accepted  and  duly  acknowledged  on  March 
the  25th  by  the  Secretary  of  State,  the  Marquis  of 
Normanby. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Weedall,  the  president,  having  been 
nominated  Vicar-Apostolic  of  the  Northern  District,  set 
out  for  Rome  on  the  22nd  of  June  to  petition  for  a 
release  from  the  dignity  and  responsibility.  This  was 
ultimately  granted  him,  and  he  returned,  but  not  to 
Oscott,  and  laboured  on  the  mission  till  he  was  reinstated 
in  1853  as  president  again  of  the  college  he  had  loved 
and  ruled  so  well. 

On  the  Qth  of  September  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Wiseman 
(who  had  been  consecrated  in  Rome  on  the  8th  of  June) 
arrived  at  Oscott,  and  was  appointed  Coadjutor  Bishop 
to  Dr.  Walsh  and  President  of  Oscott.  Within  two  days 
he  officially  announced  his  presidency  and  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  Rev.  H.  F.  C.  Logan,  D.C.L.,  as  vice- 
president  of  the  college. 

On  the  2 1st  of  the  same  month  Dr.  Wareing,  who  had 
held  the  position  of  Prefect  of  Discipline  in  the  college, 
and  also  for  two  years  had  been  its  Vice-President,  was 
consecrated  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  Western  District  in 
the  College  Chapel.  He  had  the  honour  of  being  the 
first  Oscott  student  raised  to  the  Episcopate.  The 
consecrating  Bishop  was  Dr.  Walsh,  who  was  assisted  by 
Bishops  Wiseman  and  Brown.  The  venerable  Dr. 
Collier,  the  newly-appointed  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the 


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Mauritius,  now  living  retired  at  Coventry,  was  also 
present.  The  sermon  was  preached  by  the  Hon.  and 
Rev.  George  Spencer. 

In  the  month  of  October  the  library  at  Oscott  was 
enriched  by  a  valuable  collection  of  works  graciously 
presented  by  his  Holiness  Gregory  XVI. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Wiseman  held  his  first  ordination  in 
this  country  at  Oscott  on  the  2 1st  of  December,  and 
ordained  the  Revs.  Walter  Keen  and  James  O'Farrell 
for  the  Midland  District.  On  the  same  day,  at  Ushaw, 
the  Rev.  Francis  Mostyn,  an  alumnus  of  Oscott,  was 
consecrated  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the  Northern  District. 

1841.     The  month  of  June  in  this  year  was   one  of 
glorious  and  happy  memory  for  the   Diocese  and    the 
College.     Some  few  years  before  (viz.,  Jan.  1834)  it  had 
been  determined  to  erect  a  church  in  Birmingham  that 
should  be  more  "  worthy  the  dignity  of  Catholic  worship," 
and  some  effort  was  made  to  carry  out  the  work.     Little 
however    was    accomplished    till    Dr.    Walsh,    in     1839, 
determined  upon  the  erection  of  a  cathedral   church   on 
the  site  of  the  old  chapel  of  St.  Chad.     To  this  he  was 
undoubtedly  moved  by  the  wonderful  discovery  in    1837 
of  the  long  lost  relics  of  St.  Chad.     These  were  found  (it 
is   commonly   said    "accidentally,"    though  can   we  not 
recognise  the  Providence  of  God)  in  the  chapel  at  Aston 
Hall,  near  Stone.     A  due  investigation  of  the  discovery 
was  made  by  Dr.  Walsh  and  Dr.  Wiseman,  who  completely 
satisfied  themselves,  and  laid  such  evidence   before  His 
Holiness  Gregory  XVI.  as  to  enable  him  to  approve  the 
relics  as  genuine.    On  the  I5th  of  June  they  were  brought 
from  Aston    to    Oscott    by   the  Rt.  Rev.   Dr.  Wiseman 
attended  by  the  Rev.  G.  Morgan,  of  Uttoxeter,  and  the 
Rev.  Benjamin  Hulme,  of  Aston  Hall.     These  venerated 
relics  of  the  sainted  Bishop  of  Mercia  and  the  founder  of 
Lichfield's  see  were  joyfully  received  at  the  college  gates 
and  borne  in  procession  to  the  chapel  where  for  five  days 
they  reposed  in  the  sanctuary,  hallowing  the  seminary, 
till  on  Sunday,  June  2Oth,  they  were  solemnly  translated 


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to  the  new  cathedral   church  of  the  diocese  which  was 
consecrated  on  the  following  Tuesday. 

On  the  9th  of  November  His  Holiness  Gregory  XVI., 
by  diploma,  conferred  the  dignity  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
upon  the  Rev.  J.  Kirk,  of  Lichfield,  who  had  been  for 
many  years  a  faithful  friend  to  Oscott. 

1842.  A  new  altar  of  carved  stone  was  erected  in  a 
side  chapel  and    consecrated    on   April   4th   by    Bishop 
Wiseman.      The  relics  of  St.  Betalion,  St.  Bonianus,  and 
St.  Severus,  were  deposited  within  the  altar  stone  ;  the 
altar  was  dedicated  to  St.  George  and  St.  Patrick,  and 
was  a  benefaction  of  Mr.  Augustus  Welby  Pugin. 

One  of  the  earliest  results  of  the  Tractarian  movement 
was  the  conversion  of  Mr.  Peter  le  Page  Renouf,  of 
Pembroke  College,  Oxon,  who  shortly  after  his  reception 
into  the  Church  was  confirmed  at  Oscott  by  Bishop 
Wiseman  on  Whitsunday,  the  I5th  of  May. 

On  October  28th  the  Rev.  R.  Willson  was  consecrated, 
at  Nottingham,  Bishop  of  Hobarton,  Tasmania — the 
third  student  raised  to  the  Episcopal  dignity. 

Father  Mathew,  the  "Apostle"  of  Temperance,  visited 
the  College  during  the  year  and  addressed  the  students 
on  his  favourite  topic. 

1843.  The  Rev.  William  Foley  died  on  the  nth  of 
February,  and  was  interred  on   the    I4th  in    the   vault 
beneath  the  Sanctuary. 

On  the  1 8th  of  December,  His  Royal  Highness  Henri 
de  Bourbon,  Comte  de  Chambord,  Due  de  Bordeaux,  etc., 
honoured  the  College  by  a  visit.  He  had  previously 
made  the  acquaintance  and  accepted  the  hospitality  of 
the  President  when  in  Rome.  Dr.  Wiseman  and  the 
Hon.  and  Rev.  George  Spencer  met  their  distinguished 
visitor  in  Birmingham,  and  carriages  from  Dee's  brought 
the  Prince  and  his  suite  to  the  College.  The  whole  of 
the  first  floor  was  set  apart  for  the  convenience  of  the 
party,  who  lunched,  dined,  and  remained  for  a  night.  A 
concert  was  also  given  and  addresses  in  various  languages 
presented.  An  extra  week's  holiday  was  granted  in 
honour  of  the  occasion. 


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1844.  During  the  year,  the  great  "  Liberator,"  Daniel 
O'Connell,   Esq.,  M.P.,   visited   the    College.      A    grand 
concert  was  given  in  his  honour,  and  an  address  presented, 
to  which  he  replied  in  a  long  and  interesting  speech. 

1845.  This  was  a  memorable  year  in  the  history  of 
Oscott,  on  account  of  the  large  number  of  converts  from 
the  Established    Church,   to  whom    Oscott    opened    her 
hospitable  doors.     On  the  nth  of  May,  Bishop  Wiseman 
administered  the  Sacrament  of  Confirmation  to  Benjamin 
Butland    and    St.    George   Mivart,   and  on  the  I5th   of 
August,  to  William  Ward,  John  D.  Dalgairns,  Frederick 
Bowles,  and  Richard  Stanton.     The  9th  of  October  was  a 
never  to  be  forgotten  day,  for  its  closing  hours  witnessed 
the  reception   into   the  one  fold  of  our  now  venerated 
Cardinal  Newman.     He  was   conditionally   baptised    at 
Littlemore    by  Fr.  Dominic,  and    on  the    Feast  of  All 
Saints   received  at  Oscott  the  grace  of  Confirmation  in 
company    with    Ambrose    St.   John,  John    Walker,  and 
Frederick  Oakley      And  later  in  the  same  year,  Thomas 
William  Marshall  and   Henry  J.  Marshall,  converts   also 
from  the  Established  Church,  were  admitted  to  the  same 
Sacrament. 

1846.  On  New  Year's  Day,  Dr.  Wiseman  administered 
the  Sacrament  of  Confirmation  at  Oscott  to  four  more 
clerical  converts,  whose  names  have  since  been  prominent 
in  the  Catholic  world.     These  were  J.  Brande  Morris,  H. 
Formby,  G.  Burder,  and  E.  E.  Estcourt.     And  this  year 
witnessed  also  the  reception  into  the  church  of  the  now 
revered    Provost    Northcote,   to  whom    Oscott   owes   so 
much    for   his    seventeen    years'  able    administration   of 
the  college. 

On  Sunday,  June  2ist,  His  Holiness  Pius  IX.  was 
crowned  as  Sovereign  Pontiff,  and  on  the  same  day  the 
Rt.  Rev.  W.  B.  Ullathorne,  O.S.B.,  was  consecrated 
Bishop  of  Hetalona,  at  Coventry,  in  the  Church  of 
St.  Osburg,  which  he  had  erected,  and  opened  on  the  9th 
of  September,  1845. 


77 

During  the  presidency  of  Dr.  Wiseman  was  built  the 
Chapel  of  St.  Nicholas,  at  Maney,  for  the  greater  con- 
venience of  the  Catholics  in  the  neighbourhood.  This 
chapel  is  now  served  by  the  Benedictine  Fathers  of 
Erdington. 

1847.  In  the  autumn  of  this  year  Dr.  Wiseman  was 
summoned  to  London  and  appointed  Vicar  Apostolic  of 
the  "London  District,  on  August  the  29th,  in  succession  to 
Dr.  Griffiths.     The  Rev.  H.  F.  C.  Logan,  the  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  College,  succeeded  him  as  President,  and  the 
Rev.  Rodolphus  Bagnall  was  appointed  as  Vice-President. 

1848.  On  the  28th  of  July  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Ullathorne 
was  translated  from  the  Western  to  the  Central  District, 
and  enthroned   in   St.  Chad's  Cathedral  on  the  3oth  of 
August  in  the  presence  of  about  ninety  of  his  clergy. 

In  September  of  this  year  Dr.  Logan  resigned  the 
presidency  and  the  Very  Rev.  John  Moore,  D.D.,  was 
appointed  to  succeed  him,  and  the  Rev.  R.  Bagnall  con- 
tinued as  Vice-President. 

1849.  Dr.  Walsh,  Bishop  of  Cambysopolis,  Grand 
Vicar  of  the  London  District,  and  formerly  of  the  Central 
District  and  Founder  of  the  New  College  of  Oscott,  died 
in  London  on  Feb.  i8th. 

On-  the  4th  of  March  Daniel  Costello,  one  of  the 
alumni  of  the  college,  died  at  Oscott,  and  was  interred 
in  the  vault  beneath  the  sanctuary. 

June  1 2th.  This  was  a  noteworthy  day  in  the  annals 
of  Oscott,  when  the  students  made  their  first  public 
appearance  in  the  cricket  field.  The  first  Oscotian 
match  was  played  at  Sutton  with  the  Sutton  club,  and 
ultimately  resulted  in  a  great  victory  for  Oscott.  Dr. 
Moore,  the  president,  entered  fully  into  the  excitement 
of  the  day,  and  rode  to  and  fro  between  the  college  and 
the  park  to  note  and  report  the  progress  of  the  game. 

This  was  not  the  only  instance,  however,  in  which 
Dr.  Moore  displayed  his  interest  in  the  public  games  of 
the  students.  The  great  "  national  game "  of  bandy, 
which  had  been  played  at  the  Bandy  Woods  in  the  olden 


times,  was  continued  after  the  students  removed  to  the 
new  college,  and  is  played  on  the  same  ground  still.  In 
praise  of  this  game  Dr.  Moore  composed  an  ode,  which 
young  Oscotians  still  love  to  sing  at  the  close  of  the 
festivities  on  the  feast  of  S.  Cecily.  As  the  heartiness  of 
the  singing  sometimes  renders  the  words  of  the  song 
difficult  to  detect,  they  are  given  here  for  the  information 
of  those  to  whom,  perchance,  the  chorus  alone  is  familiar. 

ODE   TO   BANDY. 

Lo  !  from  the  Coldfield  the  Genius  of  Bandy 
Comes  capering  light  o'er  the  thistles  and  fern ; 
Down  with  your  fiddlesticks,  Muses, — be  handy ; 
Welcome,  oh  !  welcome  the  Hero's  return  ! 

Now  let  famed  Oscott's  pride 

Leave  Perry's  freezing  tide, 
Brace  on  their  buskins  and  haste  to  the  fray ; 

And  may  the  hills  about 

Answer  the  sturdy  shout, 
"  Bandy  and  broken  shins, — Hurrah  !  Hurrah  ! " 

Rounders  and  cricket-bats  yield  to  the  Bandy  Ball ! 
Button  Woods  !     Button  Woods  !  cease  to  be  heard  ! 
Fearless  and  jovial,  heart,  muscle,  voice  and  all, 
Join  in  the  combat  for  Bandy's  the  word ! 

Soon  shall  the  beechen  grove, 

Nodding  its  crest  above, 
Ring  to  the  echoes  of  mirth  and  dismay ; 

Whilst  buzzing  all  around, 

Murmurs  the  direful  sound — 
"  Bandy  and  broken  shins, — Hurrah  !  Hurrah  ! " 

Haste  then  !  Let  England  parade  in  the  middle, 
Ireland  and  Spain  wriggle  in  where  they  can, 
Whilst  Scotland  keeps  time  with  the  bag-pipe  and  fiddle, 
And  a  prim  little  Frenchman  careers  in  the  van ; 

With  lusty  and  dauntless  coups, 

Cease  not  the  ball  to  bruise 
'Fill  it  be  shattered  and  battered  away ; 

Then  raise  the  grand  quartette 

Louder  and  louder  yet, — 
"  Bandy  and  broken  shins, — Hurrah  !  Hurrah  ! 


79 

Lazy  old  soakers  !  come,  learn  to  be  bolder, 
Hope  is  your  breastplate  and  valour  your  shield  ; 
Then  buckle  your  bandy  tight  on  your  shoulder, 
With  pluck  in  your  pocket,  and  off  to  the  field  ! 

Dread  not  yon  timber's  might, 

Dread  not  yon  stalwart  wight ; 
Think  not  of  danger  as  you  rush  to  the  fray, 

And  soon  as  the  battle 's  o'er, 

Echo  the  joyous  roar — 
"  Bandy  and  broken  shins — Hurrah  !  Hurrah  !" 

1850.  On  the  25th  of  May  Joseph  Gibbons,  a  clerical 
student,  died  at  Oscott   and   was  interred   beneath  the 
sanctuary  on  the  3ist 

In  this  year  His  Holiness  Pius  IX.  by  Letters  Apostolic 
decreed  the  restoration  of  the  Hierarchy  to  England,  and 
defined  the  dioceses  and  named  the  sees.  The  decree 
was  dated  at  Rome  on  the  29th  of  September,  and  on  the 
following  day  Dr.  Wiseman  the  new  Archbishop  of 
Westminster  was  created  a  cardinal.  On  the  following 
2/th  of  October  Dr.  Ullathorne  took  formal  possession  of 
the  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Chad  as  the  first  Bishop  of 
Birmingham. 

1851.  Two  of  the  newly-created  sees  were   filled   by 
members  of  the  College.     Dr.  Errington,  who  had  been  a 
very  energetic  Prefect  of  Studies,  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Plymouth  on  the  25th  of  July  ;  and  Dr.  Brown,  who  had 
also  filled  the  same  office,  and  was  moreover  an  alumnus 
of  Oscott,  was  consecrated  first  Bishop  of  Shrewsbury, 
by  Cardinal  Wiseman,  July  2/th. 

Dr.  Ullathorne  having  generously  placed  the  old 
college  at  the  disposal  of  the  Sisters  of  Mercy  residing 
at  Handsworth,  who  were  desirous  of  establishing  an 
orphanage,  an  appeal  was  issued  this  year  for  funds  to 
commence  and  continue  the  work.  Donations  were 
received  by  Dr.  Weedall,  then  at  Handsworth,  and  by 
Dr.  Moore,  the  president  of  the  college. 

On  the  2  ist  of  December  Dr.  Kirk  died  at  Lichfield  in 
his  92nd  year,  and  on  the  6/th  anniversary  of  his  first 


8o 

mass  said  in  Rome,  on  the  feast  of  St.  Thomas  the 
Apostle.  His  old  friend  Dr.  Weedall  sang  the  Requiem 
Mass,  and  Dr.  Moore  with  the  clergy  and  choir  of  Oscott 
were  present  on  the  occasion. 

1852.  The  first  Provincial  Synod  of  Westminster  was 
held  at  Oscott  during  the  month  of  July  in  this  year. 
Thus   a   distinguished  honour  was  conferred    upon    the 
college,  though  indeed  it  seemed  befitting  that  the  first 
synod  should  be  held  within  the  heart  of  England,  and 
moreover  within  the  diocese  of  one  who,  from  the  moment 
of  his  consecration,  had    laboured  so  earnestly   and  so 
successfully  in  obtaining  for  England  the  blessing  of  a 
restored   hierarchy.      It  was  on  this  occasion   that   Dr. 
Newman   delivered    the  exquisite    discourse   which  was 
afterwards   published    under   the   title   of  the    "  Second 
Spring."       Cardinal    Manning    was    also    one    of    the 
preachers. 

John  Talbot,  i6th  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  one  of  Oscott's 
greatest  benefactors,  died  at  Naples,  on  Nov.  loth.  His 
remains  were  brought  to  this  country  and  interred  at 
Alton,  on  Dec.  I4th,  when  Dr.  Weedall  delivered  a 
magnificent  funeral  discourse,  which,  as  a  contemporary 
writer  observed,  "  did  honour  both  to  his  head  and  his 
heart." 

1853.  During  the  month  of  April  of  this  year,  a  most 
unfortunate  and  unlocked  for  incident  occurred,  which  for 
a  short  time  deprived  the  Diocese  of  its   Bishop  and   the 
College  of  its  President.   On  April  the  23rd,  the  President 
issued  a  circular  letter  to  the  parents  of  the    students 
announcing   his   enforced  absence,  and  quoted    by  way 
of    explanation     the     following    paragraph     from     the 
"  Birmingham  Journal." 

"We  regret  to  say,  that  a  very  painful  instance  of 
Banking  liability  has  occurred  during  the  last  few  days 
to  two  gentlemen  of  this  town  and  neighbourhood.  The 
Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Ullathorne  and  Dr.  Moore,  President  of 
Oscott  College,  have  been  arrested  under  the  following 
circumstances,  which  cannot  fail  to  excite  considerable 
sympathy  in  their  regard. 


JOHN,  16TH  EARL  OF  SHREWSBURY,  K.S.G.,  F.S.A. 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  20. 


8i 

"  Some  years  ago,  when  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Walsh  was 
Bishop  of  the  Midland  district,  a  Catholic  gentleman 
named  Browne  Mostyn,  was  desirous  of  endowing  a 
mission  in  Oxfordshire,  and  having  selected  Radford 
as  the  locality  most  in  need  of  assistance,  he  transferred 
80  shares  in  the  Monmouthshire  and  Glamorganshire 
Banking  Co.,  to  the  names  of  the  Vicar  Apostolic  of  the 
Midland  district  and  the  President  of  Oscott  College  for 
the  time  being,  whoever  they  might  be,  as  trustees  for  the 
charity.  In  this  way  the  trust  devolved  upon  Dr. 
Ullathorne  and  Dr.  Moore,  and  they  became  ex-officio 
trustees  of  the  property,  but  without  possessing  one 
farthing  beneficial  interest  in  the  transaction. 

"  About  two  years  ago  however,  the  Bank  failed  with 
heavy  liabilities,  and  Dr.  Ullathorne  and  Dr.  Moore 
entered  into  an  agreement  to  pay  £1,000,  which  they 
borrowed  for  that  purpose,  under  the  expectation  that  no 
further  claim  would  be  made  upon  them. 

"  Notwithstanding  their  hopes  a  call  of  £60  a  share, 
minus  the  £1,000,  was  made  upon  them,  amounting  to 
£3,800.  Notice  of  payment  was  served  and  answer 
returned  that  it  was  utterly  impossible  to  meet  the 
demand,  that  the  money  already  paid  had  been  raised  at 
the  inconvenience  of  friends,  and  that  all  that  could  be 
done  was  to  surrender  the  actual  personal  property  of 
which  they  were  possessed,  including  library,  &c., 
amounting  to  £200.  This  proposal  was  refused.  Pro- 
ceedings were  taken,  and  eventually,  on  Tuesday  last, 
Dr.  Ullathorne  was  arrested  at  his  residence  in  Bath 
Street  by  Mr.  Badham  ;  and,  yesterday,  Dr.  Moore  was 
arrested  at  Oscott  College. 

"These  two  gentlemen  are  now  in  custody,  never 
having  received  one  farthing  consideration  for  the  onerous 
liability  which  they  have  unconsciously  incurred.  They 
have  no  alternative,  therefore,  but  to  pass  through  the 
Insolvency  Court,  as  the  only  means  of  obtaining  their 
discharge." 


82 

During  the  month  of  June  in  this  year  Dr.  Moore 
retired  from  the  presidency,  and,  to  the  very  great  gratifi- 
cation of  all  Oscotians,  the  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Weedall 
returned  to  Oscott  as  President  again  on  the  2nd  of  July. 
1854.  On  the  3rd  Sunday  of  Lent  the  College  was 
honoured  by  a  visit  from  the  great  French  Dominican 
orator,  Pere  Henri  Lacordaire,  who  preached  during  the 
mass  on  the  text  Luke  xi.  27. 

On  the  Qth  of  May,  Dr.  Weedall  was  raised  by  the  late 
Pope  Pius  IX.  to  the  dignity  of  Domestic  Prelate  of  His 
Holiness.  This  high  mark  of  favour  from  the  Holy  See 
came  quite  unexpectedly ;  but  happily  at  a  time  when 
he  was  about  to  keep  the  fiftieth  year  of  his  connection 
with  Oscott.  A  festival,  commemorating  both  events, 
was  accordingly  celebrated  on  the  nth  of  June,  to 
which  his  old  friends  and  fellow-students  were  invited. 
Addresses  were  presented  by  the  superiors  and  students, 
and  finally  by  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese.  Monsignor 
Weedall  entered  the  old  College  as  a  student  on  June 
nth,  1804,  and  was  ordained  priest  by  Dr.  Milner  on 
April  6th,  1814. 

1855.  During  this  year  the  second  Provincial  Synod 
was  held  at  Oscott. 

On  September  the  i6th  the  Rev.  William  Vaughan, 
Vicar-General  of  the  diocese  of  Clifton,  was  consecrated 
Bishop  of  Plymouth,  being  the  fifth  student  raised  to  the 
episcopal  dignity. 

1856.  In  the  early  days  of  this  year  his  Eminence 
Cardinal  Wiseman  displayed  his  continued  interest  in  the 
college  by  giving  the  Annual   Retreat  to  the  students. 
For  this  act  of  kindness  and  condescension  they  presented 
him  with  an   address  of  thanks  signed  by  E.  C.  Acton, 
the  Public  Man.     To  this  his  Eminence  replied  on  March 
1 9th,  and  assured  them  that  no  introduction  or  recom- 
mendation to  him  was  ever  more  acceptable,  or  surer  to 
secure  an  affectionate  reception  than  the  simple  epithet 
of  "  Oscotian  "  written  on  anyone's  card, 


On  the  22nd  of  April  James  Kearney,  one  of  the 
alumni,  died  at  Oscott,  and  was  interred  beneath  the 
sanctuary  on  the  25th. 

1857.  In  November  of  this  year  Monsignor  Weedall 
issued  a  circular  letter,  in  which  he  pointed  out  the  need 
of  erecting  an  academic  hall.  An  exhibition  room  was 
designed  and  provided  when  the  college  was  first  built, 
but  on  the  presentation  of  the  Marini  or  Walshian 
Library,  the  president  was  compelled  to  transform  it  into 
a  library ;  and  therefore,  as  Dr.  Weedall  remarked, 
though  "  such  good  fortune  can  never  be  called  misfor- 
tune," yet,  in  the  matter  of  an  exhibition  room,  it  caused 
embarrassment. 

1858.  On  July  the  4th,  the  Rev.  Francis  Kerril  Amherst, 
Missionary  Rector  of  Stafford,  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Northampton,  in  the  College  chapel,  by  His  Eminence 
Cardinal  Wiseman.     He  was  the  sixth  student  raised  to 
the  Episcopal  dignity. 

Angelo  Corpi,  a  student,  died  on  the  /th  of  December, 
and  was  buried  on  the  loth  in  the  vault  beneath  the 
church. 

1859.  On    the   7th  of   November,   after  a  long   and 
severe  illness,  Monsignor  Weedall  died  at  Oscott  and  his 
remains    were    laid    to    rest   in    the   vault   beneath    the 
sanctuary  four  days  later.    His  Lordship,  Dr.  Ullathorne, 
in  his  letter  to  the  clergy  announcing  the  death,  very 
truly  said  of  him,  "  In  his  vigour  of  life  he  raised  that 
College  (Oscott)  up  in  its  splendour,  and  at  the  voice  of 
obedience   left   it   prospering  ;     at   the    same    voice   of 
obedience  he  returned  again  to  it  in  its  hour  of  difficulty, 
and  expended  on  its  service  all  the  energies  of  life  that 
yet  remained  to  him.     God  blessed  his  work,  and  now 
He  has  been  pleased  to  take  the  workman." 

On  the  day  of  his  funeral  a  meeting  was  held  at  Oscott 
in  which  it  was  determined  to  perpetuate  the  memory  of 
the  revered  President  and  Prelate  by  the  erection  of  a 
Chantry  Chapel,  the  cost  of  which  was  estimated  at  about 
£800. 


84 

On  the  death  of  Monsignor  Weedall,  Dr.  Morgan  was 
appointed  President  of  Oscott  and  the  Rev.  J.  S.  Northcote 
Vice-President. 

In  the  summer  of  this  year  the  third  Provincial  Synod 
was  held  at  Oscott. 

1860.  On  the  6th  of  July  the  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan  retired 
from   the   presidency    to    which    the    Rev.   J.    Spencer 
Northcote  succeeded,  and  the  Rev.  William  Grosvenor 
was    appointed     Vice-President.       His     Lordship,    Dr. 
Ullathorne,    formally   announced    the   appointments   on 
July  the  loth. 

The  College  Festival  on  St.  Cecily's  Day  was  attended 
by  an  unusually  large  number  of  old  Oscotians  and 
friends  of  the  College.  Amongst  the  visitors  were  their 
Lordships  Dr.  Brown,  of  Shrewsbury,  and  Dr.  Amherst, 
of  Northampton  ;  Lord  Southwell,  Capt.  Knight,  the 
Hon.  and  Rev.  E.  Stonor,  &c. 

1861.  On  the  6th  of  January  His  Holiness  Pius  IX. 
conferred    the   dignity   of    Doctor   of    Divinity   on    the 
President,  having  in  the  past  year  promoted  him  to   a 
canonry  in  the  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Chad.     On  the 
3Oth  of  January  His  Lordship  Dr.  Ullathorne,   accom- 
panied by  the  chapter  and  clergy  of  Birmingham,  visited 
the  College,  and  invested  the  President  with  the  symbols 
of  his  new  dignity. 

In  this  year,  on  the  25th  of  June,  the  "  Oscotian 
Society "  was  founded.  "  Its  primary  object  was  to 
establish  a  centre  of  union  for  Oscotians  and  friends  of 
the  College,  and  to  renew  from  year  to  year,  by  meeting 
at  Midsummer,  the  old  associations  which  connect  them 
with  Alma  Mater."  The  Society  also  offers  prizes  for 
competition  amongst  the  students,  and  devotes  a  portion 
of  its  funds  to  the  material  improvement  of  the  Chapel 
and  College,  and  in  encouraging  the  public  games. 

On  the  2Qth  of  June  the  Sacred  Order  of  the  Priest- 
hood was  conferred  upon  the  Rev.  Edward  Ilsley,  now 
the  estimable  and  beloved  Bishop  of  Birmingham. 


The  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Morgan,  sometime  President  of 
Oscott,  died  very  suddenly  of  heart  disease  at  Scatterford, 
in  Gloucestershire,  on  the  25th  of  November,  and  was 
buried  in  the  Catholic  Cemetery  at  Coedangred,  in 
Monmouthshire,  on  the  29th.  The  Very  Rev.  Canon 
Bagnall  attended  and  sang  the  Requiem  Mass. 

1862.  The  Chantry  Chapel  erected  by  the  College 
and  friends  to  the  memory  of  Monsignor  Weedall  was 
completed  during  the  Christmas  vacation,  and  solemnly 
blessed  by  Dr.  Northcote  on  January  the  i/th.  It 
contains  two  altars,  dedicated  one  to  the  "  Sacred  Heart," 
the  other  to  the  "Immaculate  Conception."  On  the  floor 
at  the  entrance  is  a  brass  plate  bearing  the  following 
inscription  : — 

"0rate  pro  attima  Rennet  IDeeball,  S&.Q.,  qui 
r>ixit  annos  Ixxt,  e  quibus  xliii,  in  collegia 
Oscotiano  exegit,  a  juoentute  2ilumnus  postea 
interjecto  annorum  xiii.  spatio  bis  Hector  benique 
(Episcopatus  onere  quo  D.  papa  (Bregorius  xr>i. 
ilium  cumulare  t>olebat  ab  pebes  papa*  ipsius 
fyumillime  beposito  primus  Capituli  Birmingham- 
iensis  prcepositus  et  prelatus  papa?  bomesticus 
creatus  Ijic  inter  suos  biem  supremum  obiit  anno 
Cfyristi  mbccclix.  oii.  3bus  riopembres  et  in 
Capella  bujus  Collegii  sepultus  est.  Canti 
niri,  amid,  sacerbotis  memoriam  consert?aturi 
cantariam  fyanc  abbita  5ami^ar^ss^morum  °Pe 
exstruenbam  curar>ere  (Bulielmus  Bernarbus  €p : 
Birm:  Hectorque  et  alumni  0scotiant  Zlnno 
mbccclxii.'; 

An  unfortunate  outbreak  of  scarlatina  occurred  in  the 
month  of  October.  This  was  apparently  subdued  ;  but 
on  its  re-appearance  in  November,  the  president  deemed 
it  advisable  to  suspend  the  studies  and  to  dismiss  the 
students  for  greater  safety  to  their  homes. 


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On  the  1 8th  of  November  the  Rev.  Edmund  Knight 
was  appointed  vice-president  of  the  college. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Miiller,  Bishop  of  Munster,  in  West- 
phalia, with  his  chaplain  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Purcell,  of 
the  German  Church  in  London,  honoured  the  college  by 
a  visit. 

1863.  Matthias  Cossio,  a  student  of  the  college,  died 
at  Torquay  (whither  he  had  been  sent  for  the  benefit  of 
his  health)  on    the   i8th   of   May.      His  remains  were 
brought  to  the  college  and  interred  on  the  23rd.     This 
was  the  first  burial  in  the  new  cemetery  on  the  south 
side  of  the  church. 

The  twenty-fifth  anniversary  of  the  opening  of  the 
New  College  was  kept  on  the  Exhibition  Day,  in  the 
July  of  this  year.  His  Eminence  Cardinal  Wiseman, 
Monsignor  Manning,  and  other  distinguished  visitors 
assembled  to  mark  the  event. 

1864.  At   Carstairs,   on    the    ist   of   October,   by   a 
sudden  death,  passed  away  the  Hon.  and   Rev.  George 
Spencer,  in  religion,  Fr.  Ignatius  of  St.  Paul,  Passionist. 
He  was  the  youngest  son  of  George  John,  Earl  Spencer, 
K.G.,  and  was  born  on  the  2ist  of  December,  1799.     In 
the  year  1822  he  became  a  minister  of  the  Established 
religion,  but  was  received   into  the  Church  in  January, 
1830,  by  the   Rev.  Fr.  Caestryck,  at  Leicester.     On  the 
26th  of  May,  1832,  he  was  ordained  priest  in  Rome,  and 
came  to  Oscott  in  April  or  May,  1839,  where  the  spiritual 
charge   of  the   students   was   entrusted    to    him.     Two 
missions,  Dudley  and  West  Bromwich,  had  already  been 
founded  by  the  means  he  had  provided,  and  the  ground 
upon  which  the  present  College  of  Oscott  stands  was 
bought  chiefly  with  the  money  he  gave  to  Dr.  Walsh. 
He  remained  at  Oscott  till  the  close  of  1846,  when  he 
entered    the    Passionist   novitiate.      During    his   life   at 
Oscott  the  great  Tractarian  movement  occurred,  and  in 
one  of  his  letters  in  ^846  he  stated  that  on  one  occasion 
there  were  twelve  who  had   been  Anglican  clergymen 


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assisting  at  his  mass,  and  there  were  three  more  in  the 
College  at  the  same  time. 

The  College  received  a  visit  during  this  year  from  the 
Very  Rev.  Fr.  Jandel,  the  General  of  the  Dominican 
Order. 

1865.  His  Eminence  Cardinal  Wiseman  died  in 
London  on  the  I5th  of  February. 

The  Hon.  Thomas  Stonor,  eldest  son  of  Thomas 
Stonor,  Baron  Camoys,  died  on  the  28th  of  May.  He 
was  the  founder  of  the  "  Oscotian  Society,"  and  as  such 
his  memory  is  perpetuated  on  the  mural  tablet  erected 
by  the  society  within  the  Weedall  Chantry. 

His  Eminence  Cardinal  Reisach  honoured  the 
College  by  a  visit  in  this  year.  On  this  occasion  His 
Eminence  witnessed  for  the  first  time  in  his  life  the 
"  national "  game  of  cricket,  and  expressed  almost 
unbounded  surprise  at  the  readiness  with  which  all 
obeyed  the  decision  of  the  umpires.  His  visit  to  England 
was  purposely  to  study  the  English  character,  and  he 
drew  from  this  game  of  cricket  a  conclusion  that 
Englishmen  must  naturally  be  submissive  to  authority. 

1866.  The  early  days  of  this  year  proved  a  time  of 
much  anxiety  to  the  president,  and,  indeed,  to  all 
Oscotians.  In  the  preceding  year  it  had  been 
found  necessary  summarily  to  dismiss  one  of  the 
senior  students  for  organising  a  plan  whereby  a 
section  of  his  companions  was  brought  into  contempt 
and  their  school-life  rendered  intolerable.  Under  these 
circumstances  the  president  determined  on  a  course  of 
prompt  and  resolute  action  which  was  equally  necessary 
for  the  extermination  of  the  evil  and  the  protection  of  the 
defenceless  minority.  But  unfortunately,  in  an  attempt 
to  prevent  further  communication  with  his  fellow  students 
the  youth  was  confined  to  his  room  (which  was  locked), 
and  thus  deprived  of  his  liberty  for  an  hour  or  more 
previous  to  his  leaving  the  college.  Thus  a  technical 
"  assault "  was  committed  which  resulted  in  an  action  at 
law  being  laid  against  the  president  and  the  prefect  of 


discipline.  The  case,  Fitzgerald  v.  Northcote,  came  before 
the  Lord  Chief  Justice  Cockburn  on  Feb.  5th,  6th,  and 
7th,  and  resulted  in  a  nominal  verdict  for  the  plaintiff 
with  damages  assessed  at  £5.  This  verdict  carried  costs, 
which  amounted  in  the  whole  to  well  nigh  £800.  Friends 
however  came  to  the  rescue,  and  Mr.  George  Blount 
(though  not  even  an  Oscotian)  set  on  foot  a  subscription 
list  which  when  completed  secured  for  the  college  and  the 
president  an  entire  freedom  from  anxiety  from  the 
pecuniary  point  of  view.  For  this  noble  and  disinterested 
act  the  Oscotian  Society  presented  a  vote  of  thanks  and 
an  address  to  him,  and  enrolled  Mr.  Blount's  name 
amongst  the  Honorary  Members  of  the  Society. 

The  shadow  of  gloom  that  hung  over  the  college 
during  those  anxious  days  was  dispelled  by  ths  brilliant 
reception  accorded  to  the  president  on  his  return.  He 
was  welcomed  at  the  lodge  by  the  assembled  students 
in  rounds  of  ringing  cheers,  and  drawn  by  them  in  his 
carriage  in  triumph  to  the  college  doors  ;  and  there,  by 
the  hand  of  their  Public  Man,  Mr.  Osmund  C.  de  Lisle, 
he  was  presented  with  an  address  (illuminated  by 
one  of  their  number,  the  Hon.  William  Petre,  now 
the  thirteenth  baron),  in  which  these  words  occur : — 
"  We  feel  that  it  is  quite  needless  for  us  to  express  our 
sympathy  with  you  upon  the  issue  of  the  late  trial  ;  for, 
in  spite  of  the  verdict,  we  are  all  perfectly  satisfied  you 
have  won  your  cause  in  the  opinion  of  all  who  understand 
its  merits."  And  the  public  press,  both  in  London  and 
the  provinces,  pronounced  a  similar  opinion. 

The  students  were,  however,  not  content  with  a  mere 
verbal  expression  of  their  views,  but  offered  a  more  tan- 
gible proof  of  their  good-will  and  sympathy  in  the 
presentation  of  a  costly  jewelled  ciborium,*  whilst  the 

*  The  ciborium  bore  the  following  inscription  :— "Admodum  Rev. 
Dom.  Jacobo  S.  Northcote,  D.D.,  et  Collegii  Stse  Mariae  de  Oscott 
Piaesidi,  Sacerdoti  venerando.  Rectori  sequo,  Parent!  benevolo,  hoc 
ciborium,  ejusdem  collegii  alumni  gratissimum  pietatis  officium  exequentes 
dant,  dicant,  dedicant." 


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students  in  divinity  presented  a  magnificent  altar  missal 
in  token  of  their  gratitude. 

And  one  further  result  of  the  trial  also  deserves  a 
record.  A  Catholic  parent  of  noble  family  so  thoroughly 
appreciated  the  spirit  and  the  action  of  the  President 
under  the  trying  circumstances  that  he  wrote  to  secure 
admission  to  the  College  for  one  of  his  sons  after  the 
next  vacation  ;  distinctly  stating  that  his  choice  had  been 
determined  by  what  he  had  learnt  of  the  College  from 
the  trial. 

The  north  cloister,  which  hitherto  had  been  open  to 
the  quadrangle  and  much  exposed  to  the  weather,  was 
enclosed  during  the  month  of  November  by  a  dwarf  wall 
with  glazing  above  and  a  central  door  leading  to  the 
quadrangle.  Thus  a  great  improvement  was  effected, 
which  was  rendered  all  the  more  necessary  since  the 
erection  of  the  new  Academic  Hall  on  the  north  side  of 
this  cloister. 

1867.  On  the  3Oth  of  January,  Maurice  Noel  Welman, 
a  former  student  of  Oscott,  died  in  London  from  the 
effects  of  an  accident.  Having  expressed  a  particular 
desire,  in  his  last  days,  that  he  might  be  buried  at  Oscott, 
his  remains  were  there  interred  on  the  3rd  of  February. 
A  memorial  window  was  erected  by  his  family  over  the 
Altar  of  the  Sacred  Heart,  near  which  he  lies ;  and  his 
fellow-students  placed  a  white  marble  cross  at  the  head 
of  his  grave. 

In  July  of  this  year  Dr.  Northcote  announced  that  an 
additional  advantage  had  been  effected  by  the  construction 
of  a  new  swimming  bath  within  the  grounds  of  the  college. 
Hitherto,  the  students  of  the  new  college,  as  of  the  old, 
had  bathed  in  the  river  at  Perry  Barr,  which  was  several 
miles  distant.  The  new  pool  is  80  yards  in  length  and 
30  in  width,  and  ranges  from  three  to  six  feet  in  depth. 
Suitable  sheds  were  erected  and  embankments  thrown  up 
and  planted  ;  the  cost  of  the  whole  amounting  to  about 
£400.  It  appears  that  the  inauguration  of  the  bath  took 
place  on  the  5th  of  May. 


go 

1868.  A  solemn  Requiem  Mass  was  sung  on  May  22nd 
for  the  repose  of  the  soul  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Pearson, 
who  died  at  Newbury  on  Sunday,  the  i/th.    Mr  Pearson 
had  been  the  procurator  at  Oscott  for  some  years  previous 
to   1866,  when    he  was  sent  to  St.  Peter's  Mission   in 
Birmingham. 

During  the  summer  of  this  year  a  melancholy  accident 
befel  Vincent  Hill,  one  of  the  junior  students.  He  was 
seriously  injured  by  a  fall  from  the  roller  in  the  cricket 
field  but  lingered  for  several  weeks  and  died  on  the  2ist 
of  July,  and  was  interred  in  the  cemetery  on  the  following 
day. 

In  the  month  of  November  another  serious  outbreak  of 
scarlatina  and  diphtheria  occurred  at  the  College,  and 
much  anxiety  and  excitement  prevailed  for  some  days. 
On  the  4th  of  December  the  Rev.  James  O'Brien  (sub- 
deacon)  fell  a  victim  to  the  disease,  and  was  buried  on  the 
6th,  and  a  few  days  later  Cecil  Francis  Petre,  one  of  the 
younger  students,  also  died  and  was  buried  on  the  I3th. 
The  majority  of  the  students  left  Oscott.  early  in  the 
month  of  December. 

1869.  The  Rev.  Walter  Martin  died  at  Oscott,  after 
a  lingering  illness,  on  the    I2th  of  February  in  his  35th 
year,  and  was  buried   in   the  cemetery  on  the  I5th.     He 
had  held  the  office  of  Prefect  of  Discipline  from  1860  to 
1864,  when  he  was  sent  to  S.  Chad's  Cathedral,  in  Bir- 
mingham, but  returned  to  Oscott  in  his  last  illness.      He 
was  a  man   of  great  character,  talent  and  promise,  and 
was  universally  regretted. 

On  the  1 4th  of  April  the  Rev.  Thomas  Stevens 
(deacon)  died  at  Sutton  Coldfield,  and  was  buried  in  the 
college  cemetery  on  the  iyth. 

On  the  I /th  of  October,  to  the  universal  regret  of 
Oscotians,  by  whom  he  was  much  beloved  and  respected, 
died  Osmund  Charles  de  Lisle,  of  Garendon  and  Grace- 
Dieu,  in  his  2 1st  year.  Dr.  Northcote,  the  president, 
was  present  at  his  burial  and  delivered  a  pathetic 
discourse. 


MAJOR-GENERAL  THE  HON.  J,  C,  DORMER,  C.B., 

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF  OF  THE  FORCES  IN  EGYPT. 
(From  a  Photograph  by  Lambert  Weston  &°  Son,  Dover.) 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  21. 

The  Army, 


In  November  Arthur  St.  George,  the  Public  Man,  and 
Arthur  Ryan,  the  late  P.M.,  issued  a  circular  letter 
announcing  the  necessity  of  providing  a  new  cricket 
ground  for  the  use  of  the  students,  and  asking  for  assist- 
ance to  enable  them  to  carry  out  the  work. 

In  December  of  this  year  Dr.  Northcote  announced 
the  opening  of  a  new  gymnasium  at  the  college.  This 
was  highly  appreciated  and  much  frequented  by  the 
students. 

1870.  Mr.  Charles  Jefferies,  who  for  many  years  had 
been  Professor  of  Classics  in  the  college,  died,  after  much 
suffering,  on  Feb.  /th,  and  was  buried  on  the  loth. 

On  the  23rd  of  April  Alfred  Zouch  Palmer,  who  had 
recently  arrived  as  a  student,  died,  and  was  buried  on 
the  30th. 

A  very  magnificent  display  of  the  aurora  borealis  was 
observed  at  the  College  in  the  evening.  So  extraordinary 
and  brilliant  was  its  character  that  the  students  were 
allowed  in  the  "  bounds  "  after  the  usual  closing  hour  to 
witness  it. 

1871.  On  the    1 2th  of   January  an   old    and    highly 
esteemed  alumnus  of  Oscott  died  at  the  Priory,  Little 
Malvern.     This  was  Sir  Arnold  Knight,  M.D.,  the  father 
of  the  well-beloved  Vice-President  of  the  College. 

Monsignor  Ignatius  Montes  de  Oca,  a  former  student  at 
Oscott,  who  had  been  recently  consecrated  by  His  Holi- 
ness Pius  IX.  Bishop  of  Tamaulipas  in  Mexico,  honoured 
the  College  by  a  visit  on  the  25th  of  April  in  this  year, 
accompanied  by  the  Visconti  de  la  Vega,  Canonico 
Sambucetti,  and  Signor  Placci  of  Florence. 

About  this  date,  a  valuable  addition  was  made  to  the 
gallery  of  paintings  at  Oscott  by  the  presentation  of  the  - 
portrait  of  Dr.  Northcote,  painted  by  Mr.  Herbert,  R.A. 

1872.  By  the  exertions  of  the  President,  the  magni- 
ficent carved  oak  altar  rails,  formerly  in  the  Church  at 
Oscott,  but  removed  some  years  afterwards  to  Chelsea, 
were  restored  to  their  old  position  at  Oscott. 


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On  the  3Oth  of  June  of  this  year  Monsignor  Howard, 
Vicar  of  S.  Peter's,  was  consecrated  Archbishop  of  Neo- 
Caesarea  and  coadjutor  to  the  Cardinal  Bishop  of 
Frascati. 

1874.  A  memorable  incident  occurred  on  the  Exhibi- 
tion Day  this  year,  when  Magrath  F.  Fegen,  a  distinguished 
student,  was  again  presented  with  the  Silver  Examination 
Medal,  a  prize  which  he  had  earned  and  received  in  the 
three  previous  years. 

At  the  festivities  of  St.  Cecily's  day,  held  on  the  26th 
of  November,  a  large  number  of  visitors  assembled  to 
welcome  the  newly  consecrated  Bishop  of  Nottingham, 
the  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  G.  Bagshawe,  the  ninth  student 
raised  to  the  Episcopate.  An  address  was  read  by 
Dr.  Northcote  on  the  part  of  the  College,  to  which  his 
Lordship  replied. 

1875.  On  the  i6th  of  February  John  Kidd,  an  old 
servant  of  the  college,  died  at  the  south  lodge,  and  was 
laid  to  rest  in  the  new  cemetery  in  the  college  grounds 
on  the  i  Qth.  He  has  been  well  described  as  "quiet  and 
unoffending,  eager  to  oblige  in  everything  he  could,  a 
faithful  and  trusty  servant,  a  pious  Catholic,  equally 
lamented  by  servants,  students,  and  superiors." 

l877-  In  the  early  days  of  this  year  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Edward,  Monsignor  Howard,  sometime  an  alumnus  of 
Oscott,was  raised  by  his  Holiness  Pius  IX.  to  the  dignity 
of  the  Cardinalate,  and  it  was  at  once  determined  at 
Oscott  to  present  his  Eminence  with  a  congratulatory 
address.  This  was  prepared  and  signed  by  Dr.  North- 
cote  on  behalf  of  the  superiors,  and  by  Mr.  R.  Ashhurst 
Gradwell,  P.M.,  on  behalf  of  the  students.  An  oppor- 
tunity serving,  the  address  was  read  and  presented  to 
his  Eminence  in  Rome  by  the  Rev.  S.  H.  Sole,  and  there 
were  present  on  the  occasion  Monsignor  Stonor,  Mon- 
signor de  Stacpoole,  and  the  Revs.  J.  Stevenson,  E. 
English,  &c.  On  the  2ist  of  May  Cardinal  Howard 


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graciously  acknowledged   the  address    in    the   following 
terms  : — 

Dear  Canon  Knight, 

I  write  to  you,  in  the  absence  of  Dr.  Northcote,  to  beg 
that  you  will  express  to  the  superiors,  masters  and  students  of 
S.  Mary's  College,  Oscott,  my  most  heartfelt  thanks  for  the 
address  they  were  kind  enough  to  send  me  on  the  occasion  of 
my  elevation  to  the  Cardinalate.  My  education  at  Oscott, 
after  the  first  grace  of  baptism  in  the  Catholic  Church,  has  been 
to  me  the  foundation  grace  of  my  life ;  and  I  always  have  felt 
and  feel  that  to  that  I  owe  all  the  other  blessings  which  I  have 
since  received  from  God's  bountiful  hand  through  life.  The 
address,  therefore,  and  the  most  kind  expressions  in  it  have 
given  me  a  pleasure  and  consolation  difficult  to  express ;  for 
whilst  it  assures  me  that  you  have  not  forgotten  me,  it  brings 
again  before  me  how  much  I  owe  to  the  protecting  providence 
of  God,  and  places  upon  me  more  than  ever  the  obligation  of 
praying  that  those  good  gifts  I  received  from  S.  Mary's  College 
may  be  imparted  with  a  better  return  to  those  who  are  now 
being  educated  within  her  walls.  I  need  not  add,  my  dear 
Canon,  how  rejoiced  I  should  be  if  my  present  position  were  to 
enable  me  in  any  way  to  be  of  use  to  you  all.  Begging 
especially  your  prayers  for  me  in  these  times  so  difficult  for  the 
Church,  pray  believe  me 

Yours  affectionately  in  Christ, 

EDWARD  CARDINAL  HOWARD. 

Monday,  2ist  May,  1877. 
Rome,  Villa  Massimo. 

During  the  year  1876  the  President's  state  of  health 
was  a  source  of  deep  regret  and  grave  anxiety  to  all 
Oscotians.  For  several  months  of  the  year  he  was  com- 
pelled to  seek  rest  and  retirement,  but  it  was  earnestly 
hoped  that  a  prolonged  vacation  would  enable  him  to 
regain  his  strength,  and  permit  him  to  return  again  to 
the  post  which  for  seventeen  years  he  had  so  admirably 
filled.  This  sincere  desire  of  all  Oscotians,  past  as  well 
as  present,  was  not  however  to  be  realised,  for  though 
Dr.  Northcote  returned  in  1877,  it  was  but  to  tender  his 
resignation  and  to  say  farewell  to  Oscott. 


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The  affectionate  address  of  the  students  on  the 
occasion,  and  the  parental  reply  of  the  President  are 
worthy  of  preservation,  and  are  therefore  recorded  here 
in  extenso. 

July  22,  1877. 

Dear  Dr.  Northcote, 

The  news  that  you  were  about  for  ever  to  resign  your 
parental  sway  over  us  has  filled  us  all,  from  first  to  last,  with 
sorrow  and  regret.  Now,  indeed,  your  absence  teaches  us  what 
a  kind  master,  what  a  benevolent  father,  what  a  loving  and 
thoughtful  pastor  we  have  lost  in  you. 

Ever  since  your  departure  we  have  been  hoping,  and  latterly 
almost  against  hope,  for  your  speedy  return,  anxiously  waiting 
for,  and  welcoming  with  joy  any  report  that  your  health  had 
improved.  We  have  found  the  time  pass  slow  in  your  absence, 
but  when  we  remember  the  years  of  toil  spent  by  you  amongst 
us,  and  see  in  Oscott  and  in  each  one  of  us  in  particular,  the 
effects  of  your  loving  energy,  and  realise  the  tremendous  expen- 
diture of  mental  and  bodily  strength  entailed  by  it,  we  must 
unwillingly  acknowledge  that  it  is  time  for  you  to  take  your 
rest. 

It  is  our  duty  now  to  pray  for  your  recovery  (would  it  were 
for  your  return),  that  you  may  enjoy  your  well-earned  repose  ; 
and  to  strive  to  show  you  that  your  work  has  not  been  in  vain, 
by  letting  our  future  superior  see  its  spirit  and  its  effect  in  us. 
He,  whom  after  you,  we  hold  dearest  in  Oscott,  and  whom  we 
also  grieve  to  see  departing  from  us,  has  expressed  a  belief  that 
the  reputation  and  name  of  Oscott  is  enough  to  preserve  the 
College  unshaken,  even  when  the  presence  of  Dr.  Northcote  is 
withdrawn.  That  this  may  be  the  case  we  earnestly  hope  and 
pray;  still  in  our  minds  the  names  of  Dr.  Northcote  and 
Oscott  are  so  intimately  connected  that  we  can  hardly  realise 
them  apart,  and  Oscott  without  Dr.  Northcote  seems  altogether 
strange  and  unusual.  For  hitherto  we  had  looked  upon  your 
absence  as  merely  temporary,  and  as  a  sort  of  holiday. 

From  your  long  experience  of  us,  and  from  what  you  know  of 
the  warmth  and  fervour  of  boyish  love,  you  will  readily  under- 
stand what  we  feel  at  being  separated  from  you ;  and  though 
we  cannot  express  ourselves  as  well  as  we  could  wish,  your  own 
heart  will  tell  you  that  we  feel  none  the  less  strongly.  Our 


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feelings  towards  you  may  be  summed  up  in  two  words — gratitude 
and  love. 

And,  in  conclusion,  we  will  ask  a  blessing,  and  hope  that 
ever  and  anon  that  blessing  may  be  renewed  with  sure  benefit 
to  us  and  Oscott. 

We  remain,  dear  Dr.  Northcote, 

Your  affectionate  children, 

THE  STUDENTS  OF  ST.  MARY'S. 
Signed  on  behalf  of  the  students, 

R.  ASHHURST  GRADWELL,  P.M. 

To  this  address  Dr.  Northcote  replied  : — 

My  dear  Gradwell, 

Mr.  Stone  has  sent  me  the  very  touching  address  which 
you  have  signed  as  representative  of  the  students  of  Oscott.  I 
have  been  much  affected  by  it,  and  the  more  so  because  he 
assures  me  that  it  has  been  in  no  way  suggested  or  dictated  by 
others,  but  is  the  spontaneous  expression  of  your  own  genuine 
feelings.  Indeed  it  is  only  a  rendering  into  words  of  what  I 
have  been  long  familiar  with  in  the  language  of  your  acts.  For 
during  the  whole  period  of  my  government  of  Oscott,  the 
harmony  of  our  relations  as  President  and  students  has  been 
uniformly  happy.  From  the  first  moment  of  my  appointment 
I  set  it  before  me  as  a  duty  to  aim  at  promoting  the  happiness, 
as  well  as  the  improvement  in  learning  and  discipline,  of  those 
entrusted  to  my  charge.  I  desired  to  be  in  loco  parentis  to  you 
all ;  not  only,  or  chiefly,  as  having  a  claim  to  your  obedience, 
but  rather  as  having  a  share  in  your  affections.  And  the 
hearty  warmth  of  your  farewell  address  assures  me  that  I  have 
not  been  altogether  unsuccessful  of  my  desire. 

This  makes  it  the  more  painful  to  say  farewell.  But,  if  a 
great  authority  in  scholastic  matters,  the  late  Dr.  Arnold  was 
right  in  saying  that  no  man  ought  to  remain  at  the  head  of  a 
large  school  for  more  than  fourteen  years,  I  have  already  for 
some  years  past  been  entitled  to  my  discharge.  I  would  not 
have  asked  for  it  however,  had  I  not  been  assured  by  the 
best  medical  advice  that  to  resume  heavy  duties  and  anxious 
responsibilities  at  present  was  to  ensure  failure  and  to  invite 
premature  decay. 


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In  the  interests  of  the  College  then,  as  well  as  my  own,  it  was 
necessary  that  I  should  retire.  It  is  a  consolation  to  know  that 
you  will  follow  me  with  your  good  wishes  and  prayers,  and  that 
you  will  greet  my  successor  with  the  same  loyalty  with  which 
you  take  leave  of  me.  "  Le  Roi  est  mort,  vive  le  Roi." 

Be  assured,  that  I  too,  shall  ever  remember  Oscott  at  the 
altar,  and  if  I  can  be  of  use  to  any  of  you  in  after  life,  you  know 
that  you  can  command  my  services. 

Yours  ever  sincerely  in  Xst., 

J.  SPENCER  NORTHCOTE. 

On  the  4th  of  August  it  was  officially  announced  that 
not  only  Dr.  Northcote,  but  Canon  Knight,  the  Vice- 
President,  also  was  about  to  leave  Oscott.  Thus  the  loss 
to  the  College  was  rendered  all  the  greater,  and  the  regret 
of  the  students  all  the  deeper. 

The  above  declaration  was  immediately  followed  by 
the  announcement  that  the  Rev.  John  Hawksford  had 
been  appointed  President  of  Oscott,  and  the  Rev. 
William  Greaney,  Vice-President. 

1878.  A  solemn  dirge  was  sung  at  Oscott  on  February 
the  1 2th  for  the  repose  of  the  soul  of  his  late  Holiness 
Pius  IX.  who  died  on  February  /th. 

His  Holiness  Leo  XIII.  was  elected  on  February  2Oth 
and  crowned  on  the  3rd  of  March.  Shortly  afterwards 
the  congratulations  of  Oscotians  were  expressed  in  an 
elegant  Latin  address  written  by  the  Rev.  W.  Barry,  D.D., 
engrossed  on  vellum,  and  forwarded  to  Rome.  The 
address  was  kindly  presented  to  His  Holiness  by  the 
Hon.  and  Rt.  Rev.  Monsignor  Stonor. 

On  the  26th  of  June  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Associ- 
ation of  the  Venerable  College  of  St.  Thomas  de  Urbe 
was  held  at  the  College  under  the  Presidency  of  the 
Very  Rev.  Dr.  Northcote. 

On  the  occasion  of  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Oscotian 
Society  on  July  i6th,  Mr.  Fitzherbert,  on  behalf  of  the 
society  and  other  friends,  presented  Dr,  Northcote  with 
a  testimonial  consisting  of  a  purse  which  contained 


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nearly  ;£  1,000.  After  expressing  his  gratitude  to  the 
'subscribers,  Dr.  Northcote  most  generously  placed  the 
whole  in  the  hands  of  the  President  towards  the  amount 
required  for  the  completion  of  the  academic  hall,  and 
then  in  felicitous  terms  requested  permission  to 'retain 
the  purse  as  a  "  souvenir." 

By  the  early  death  of  Arthur  du  Moulin  at  Leamington 
on  the  24th  of  September,  Oscott  lost  one  of  her  most 
talented  and  promising  students.  His  college  course 
was  full  of  honour,  and  his  character  endeared  him  to  all 
who  knew  him. 

During  this  year  another  student  was  raised  to  the 
Episcopate,  the  Rt.  Rev.  Anthony  Butler,  Vicar- Apostolic 
of  Demerara.  Dr.  Butler  had  joined  the  army  on  leaving 
Oscott  in  1849,  and  had  served  a  campaign  in  Afghanistan, 
Retiring  from  the  army  he  entered  the  Society  of  Jesus, 
making  his  solemn  profession,  Feb.  2,  1878. 

1879.  On  the  3rd  of  April  his  Holiness  Leo  XIII. 
conferred  the  dignity  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  on  the  Rev.  J. 
Hawksford,  President  of  Oscott,  who,  on  the  28th  of  the 
same  month,  was  duly  invested  with  the  insignia  of  the 
dignity  by  his  Lordship  the  Bishop  of  Birmingham,  and 
received  the  warm  congratulations  of  the  students. 

On  the  1 2th  of  July  the  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Hawksford 
and  Mr.  Francis  E.  Mostyn,  P.M.,  were  admitted  to  an 
audience  of  his  Eminence  Cardinal  Newman  at  the 
Oratory,  Edgbaston,  to  present  the  congratulations  of 
the  superiors  and  students  of  Oscott  on  his  elevation  to 
the  Cardinalate. 

The  25th  of  July  was  a  day  of  much  rejoicing  at 
Oscott,  since  on  that  day  the  Rev.  Edmund  Knight,  the 
formerly  beloved  and  highly  esteemed  Vice-President  of 
the  college  was  raised  to  the  episcopal  dignity  at  Birken- 
head.  An  address  of  congratulation  from  the  students 
of  Oscott  was  at  once  forwarded  to  his  lordship,  in  which 
these  words  occur  : — •"  Oscott,  already  well  represented 
in  our  national  hierarchy,  feels,  in  the  consecration  of 

M 


y8 

your  lordship,  a  more  than  ordinary  pride ;  for  we  may 
not  forget  that  you  passed  many  happy  years  within  her 
walls  as  a  student,  and  that  in  your  ripened  manhood, 
when  God  called  you  to  the  priesthood,  you  rendered 
great  and  eminent  services  to  her  interests  both  as 
Professor  of  Theology  and  Vice-President.  The  gentle 
spirit  of  your  administration  and  the  edifying  example 
of  your  life  have  indelibly  printed  themselves  on  the 
memory  of  all  those  whose  privilege  and  blessing  it  is 
to  have  known  you  in  the  college."  These  words,  by 
whomsoever  written,  were  undoubtedly  echoed  by  every 
Oscotian. 

His  Eminence  Cardinal  Newman  honoured  the  College 
by  a  visit  on  October  5th,  when  he  was  received  by  their 
Lordships  Bishops  Ullathorne,  Amherst,  and  Knight. 
Solemn  High  Mass  was  sung  (Coram  Cardinali)  by  the 
Rev.  J.  Caswell,  and,  after  the  Gospel,  His  Eminence 
addressed  a  most  touching  discourse  to  the  students  on 
the  Devotion  of  the  Holy  Rosary. 

A  valuable  collection  of  thirty-four  silver  medals, 
commemorating  the  chief  events  in  the  Pontificate  of 
Pius  IX.,  was  presented  to  the  College  museum  on  the 
27th  of  November,  by  the  Hon.  and  Rt.  Rev.  Monsignor 
Stonor,  to  whom  all  Oscotians  owe  a  debt  of  very  deep 
gratitude  for  his  continued  and  thankworthy  interest  in 
the  welfare  of  his  and  their  Alma  Mater. 

The  Very  Rev.  Edward  Canon  Ilsley  was  consecrated 
Bishop  of  Fesse,  on  the  4th  of  December,  in  St.  Chad's 
Cathedral,  and  appointed  Bishop  Auxiliary  to  his  Lord- 
ship the  Bishop  of  Birmingham.  A  few  days  later  his 
Lordship  honoured  Oscott  by  a  visit,  and  was  presented 
by  the  students  with  an  address  of  congratulation,  in 
which  they  offered  him  their  warmest  and  heartiest 
welcome,  and  expressed  their  loyalty  and  devotion. 

1880.  Dr.  Hawksford,  the  President,  was  installed  a 
Canon  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Chad  on  the  i/th 
of  February. 

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From  the  early  days  of  his  appointment  as  Vice- 
President,  the  Rev.  William  Greaney  devoted  himself  to 
an  exceedingly  useful  and  much  needed  work  in  the 
College,  which,  after  months  of  patient  and  unremitting 
toil,  he  brought  to  a  successful  issue.  This  was  the 
rearrangement  and  admirable  display  of  the  vast  stores 
of  artistic  and  literary  treasures  possessed  by  the  College. 
The  whole  of  the  pictures,  wood-carvings,  manuscripts, 
etc.,  etc.,  were  carefully  arranged,  numbered,  and  then 
fully  described  in  a  valuable  catalogue  entitled  "  Works 
of  Art  and  Antiquity."  For  this  excellent  and  useful 
work,  published  in  1880,  Mr.  Greaney  is  entitled  to  the 
grateful  thanks  of  all  Oscotians. 

On  the  I /th  of  June,  Dr.  Hawksford  was  enabled  to 
commence  the  much  desired  improvement  and  completion 
of  the  "  Academic  Hall,"  which  henceforth,  in  honour  of 
the  late  President,  and  in  remembrance  of  his  munificent 
support  of  the  work,  was  denominated  the  "  Northcote 
Hall." 

To  the  regret  of  Oscotians  and  his  many  friends,  Sir 
John  Charles  Burke,  the  fourth  Baronet  of  the  line  of 
Marble  Hill,  died  at  Dublin,  on  August  the  i/th,  in  his 
23rd  year.  For  several  years  he  was  a  student  at  Oscott, 
and  left  in  1874,  to  pursue  his  studies  at  Sandhurst  for 
a  military  career.  He  entered  the  2Oth  Hussars  in  1879, 
and  was  stationed  in  Dublin,  where  he  died  after  a  brief 
and  painful  illness,  induced  by  his  persistent  devotion  to 
duty.  It  was  truly  recorded  of  him  when  he  died,  that, 
"  beloved  by  all  who  knew  him — especially  popular  with 
his  brother  officers — the  youthful  baronet,  cut  off  at  the 
very  opening  of  what  appeared  to  be  a  brilliant  career, 
is  deeply  and  universally  regretted.  High  and  low, 
Catholics  and  Protestants,  all  assembled  at  his  funeral  to 
pay  him  the  last  mark  of  respect  and  regard." 

In  the  month  of  October,  another  change  was 
rendered  necessary  at  Oscott,  due  to  the  continued 
indisposition  of  the  President,  Dr.  Hawksford,  whose 
zeal  and  labours  for  the  welfare  of  the  College  had 


too 

overwrought  his  strength.  Dr.  Hawksford  laboured  at 
Oscott  for  many  years  previous  to  his  appointment  as 
President,  and  had  won  the  esteem  of  all  who  had  the 
interests  of  the  College  at  heart,  Thus  his  resignation 
and  departure  on  the  $th  of  October,  were  all  the  more 
deeply  regretted.  His  reply  to  an  address  of  sympathy 
from  the  students  deserves  preservation  for  its  clear 
manifestation  of  the  true  Oscotian  spirit. 

Lourdes, 

F.  Immac.  Concep.  1880. 

My  dear  Oscotian  friends, 

As  I  have  been  accustomed  for  many  years  to  associate 
in  my  own  thoughts  and  in  my  prayers  our  Lady  of  Lourdes 
with  our  Lady  of  Oscott,  it  seems  to  me  a  happy  coincidence 
that  I  should  write  my  answer  to  your  very  kind  address  on  this 
great  festival  of  the  College,  and  at  the  very  shrine  of  Lourdes 
itself.  I  cannot  be  sufficiently  grateful  to  you  for  the  kind 
expressions  of  appreciation  and  sympathy  which  that  address 
contains,  and  I  wish  to  render  you  my  most  sincere  thanks. 

On  looking  back  through  the  history  of  the  past  thirty  years 
to  which  you  so  kindly  allude,  I  am  in  an  especial  manner 
reminded  of  the  deep  debt  of  gratitude  which  I  owe  to  those 
among  the  superiors  of  the  house  who  laboured  with  me  so 
devotedly  and  loyally  for  the  welfare  of  Alma  Mater,  and  I  can 
assure  them  that  I  shall  never  forget  their  devoted  sympathy  and 
affection  which  have  cheered  me  and  encouraged  me  to  per- 
severance through  many  a  difficulty.  I  also  wish  heartily  to 
express  my  grateful  appreciation  of  the  good  feeling  which  I  have 
ever  experienced  from  the  students  of  Oscott  in  all  the  difficulties 
which  must  ever  arise  between  teachers  and  their  pupils.  I  have 
ever  found  among  those  with  whom  I  have  been  brought  into 
contact  at  Oscott,  a  loyalty  of  spirit  and  kind  consideration 
which  have  often  afforded  me  great  consolation. 

There  is  one  observation  in  your  address  to  which  I  most 
heartily  accede,  and  that  is  that  I  have  ever  cherished  a  devoted 
attachment  to  Alma  Mater,  and  I  sincerely  trust  that  though  I 
may  be  removed  to  a  new  sphere  of  action  and  to  new  interests, 
this  feeling  may  never  die  out  of  my  heart.  It  cannot  be 


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therefore  but  that  I  feel  acutely  my  separation  from  a  home  in 
which  I  have  lived  and  laboured  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  and  to  which  I  have  devoted  the  best  years  of  my  life. 
I  shall  never  fail  to  do  everything  in  my  power  to  further  the 
interests  of  Oscott,  and  I  shall  not  forget  to  pray  earnestly  and 
perseveringly  for  its  success.  Nor  have  I  neglected  the  present 
favourable  opportunity  of  so  doing  when  I  was  offering  the  Holy 
Sacrifice  of  the  Mass  on  this  great  festival  of  the  Sacred  Patroness 
of  Oscott  at  her  favoured  shrine  of  Lourdes. 

In  conclusion,  I  would  remark  that  there  has  always  been 
this  especial  characteristic  of  Oscotians,  that,  wherever  they 
may  be  met  with,  they  are  known  by  an  undying  attachment  to 
Alma  Mater,  and  their  fellow  Oscotians.  Let  us  always  cherish 
that  sacred  tradition ;  may  it  never  die  out  of  the  hearts  of  the 
children  of  Oscott;  but  may  it  be  shown  particularly  by  an 
earnest  desire  on  the  part  of  every  Oscotian  always  to  prove 
himself  worthy  of  his  college  and  his  comrades  by  uprightness 
of  conduct  and  those  genuine  qualities  of  heart  and  mind  which 
alone  can  reflect  lasting  credit  on  Alma  Mater. 

I  remain, 
Yours  very  sincerely  in  Christ, 

JOHN    HAWKSFORD. 

His  Lordship  Dr.  Ullathorne  announced  on  the  i8th  of 
October  that  the  Rev.  Edward  C.  Acton,  D.D.,  had  been 
appointed  [President  of  Oscott,  with  the  Rev.  J.  J.  Daly 
as  Vice-President.  Dr.  Acton,  in  an  official  letter  issued 
on  the  ist  of  November,  thus  happily  expressed  his  deter- 
mination to  uphold  the  welfare  and  the  dignity  of  the 
College  committed  to  his  care  : — 

"  The  good  name  and  the  prosperity  of  Alma  Mater 
have  ever  been  dear  to  Oscotians.  It  will  be  my  constant 
aim  to  cherish  and  increase  this  feeling  of  affection  for 
the  College,  and  by  every  means  in  my  power  to  secure 
that  moral  and  intellectual  well-being  of  its  students 
which  its  founder,  my  venerable  predecessor,  Monsignor 
Weedall,  embodied  in  the  motto  above  the  College  porch, 
'  Religion!  ac  bonis  Artibus.'  " 


IO2 


l88l.  During  the  Christmas  Vacation  of  1880,  the 
"  Northcote  Hall  "  was  completed. 

In  the  month  of  April  of  this  year  the  first  number  of 
the  new  series  of  the  Oscotian  was  published,  under  the 
editorship  (which  still  continues)  of  the  Rev.  M.  F. 
Glancey.  The  magazine  has  been  well  received,  and  has 
proved  of  much  interest  to  Oscotians. 

His  Lordship  Dr.  Ullathorne  celebrated  the  Jubilee  of 
his  priesthood  on  Saturday,  September  the  24th.  Though 
numerous  invitations  were  received  by  his  Lordship  for 
the  occasion,  he  was  pleased  to  pay  Oscott  the  honour, 
which  was  highly  esteemed,  of  celebrating  the  festival 
within  its  walls.  The  clergy  of  the  College,  and  indeed 
of  the  diocese,  offered  the  Holy  Sacrifice  on  the  day  for 
his  Lordship's  intentions  and  welfare,  and  the  students 
of  the  College  similarly  offered  their  communions. 
Pontifical  High  Mass  was  sung  by  his  Lordship  at 
7  a.m.,  assisted  by  the  President,  Dr.  Acton,  and  the 
Revs.  Michael  F.  Glancey  and  Alfred  E.  Sperling,  as 
Deacon  and  Sub-Deacon.  The  Revs.  J.  J.  Daly  and 
J.  Mclntyre,  D.D.,  were  the  Deacons  at  the  throne,  and 
the  Rev.  J.  Caswell,  Master  of  the  Ceremonies.  The  day 
was  devoted  to  festivities,  and  was  closed  by  Solemn 
Benediction,  given  by  his  Lordship,  and  the  singing  of 
the  "  Te  Deum." 

1882.  Dr.  Acton,  the  President,  accepting  the  invita- 
tion of  H.R.H.  the  Prince  of  Wales,  attended  at  S.  James's 
Palace  on  February  28th  to  consider  the  question  of  the 
establishment  of  a  Royal  College  of  Music. 

The  22nd  of  April  was  a  noteworthy  period  in  the 
domestic  history  of  Oscott.  The  Birmingham  Gas 
Company,  having  laid  their  mains  along  the  Chester 
Road,  now  first  supplied  the  college  with  gas.  From 
this  date  the  old  gas  house,  familiar  in  many  ways  to 
Oscotians,  was  henceforth  closed. 

His  Eminence  Cardinal  McCabe,  Archbishop  of 
Dublin,  honoured  the  college  by  a  visit  on  the  8th  of 
September. 


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1883.  July  4th,  was  a  day  well  remembered  by  many 
an  Oscotian,  and  on  which  many  a  prayer  was  said  for 
the  welfare  of  one  of  their  number,  the  Rt.  Rev.  F.  K. 
Amherst,  late  Bishop  of  Northampton,  who  on  that  day 
celebrated,  in  a  time  of  grievous  affliction,  the  Silver 
Jubilee  of  his  consecration.  Dr.  Amherst  had  ever  been 
one  of  Oscott's  most  devoted  sons,  and  morever,  one  of 
her  best  and  truest  friends,  and  no  Oscotian,  perhaps,  has 
ever  been  more  beloved  or  respected  than  Dr.  Amherst. 
The  students  of  Oscott  expressed  their  sympathy  with 
his  Lordship  and  their  congratulations  on  his  Jubilee, 
in  the  following  address  : — 

Right  Reverend  and  Dear  Dr.  Amherst, 

We,  the  Students  of  St.  Mary's  College,  Oscott,  desire 
very  simply  but  most  sincerely  to  express  our  great  joy  that  it 
has  been  granted  to  your  Lordship  to  reach  this  Silver  Jubilee 
of  your  Episcopate. 

Our  joy  is  not  all  undimmed  ;  for  the  weight  of  a  heavy 
affliction  is  pressing  upon  you.  We  pray  your  Lordship  to 
believe  in  our  deepest  sympathy.  Of  such  sympathy  and 
affection  we  have  offered  the  surest  pledge  in  our  power.  Every 
student  has,  in  a  solemn  and  special  manner,  received  Holy 
Communion  for  your  Lordship's  intention. 

Thus  we  feel  that,  though  absent,  we  are  yet  most  truly 
united  to  you  in  spirit.  For  though  your  Lordship  is  unknown 
to  many  of  us  personally,  yet  we  can  truly  say  that  to  no 
Oscotian  are  you  unknown  or  by  none  forgotten.  Your  never- 
failing  kindness  and  courtesy  and  your  well-known  love  for 
Oscott  make  your  name  no  mere  memory,  but  a  living  influence 
amongst  us — an  influence  which  absence  has  not  lessened,  but 
which  sympathy  has  deepened  into  affection ;  and  while  we 
reverently  beg  your  blessing,  we  assure  your  Lordship  of  our 
earnest  and  continual  prayers . 

Signed,  on  behalf  of  the  students, 

G.    E.    MACHELL,    P.M. 

His  Lordship  Dr.  Amherst  died  at  Kenilworth  on  the 
2 1st  of  August,  in  his  64th  year,  deeply  and  deservedly 


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regretted.  In  his  last  days  he  remembered  Oscott,  and 
bequeathed  to  it  a  celebrated  and  valuable  ivory  crucifix 
which  his  brother,  the  Rev.  William  Amherst,  S.J., 
brought  to  the  college  on  October  2/th.  This  magnifi- 
cent work  of  art  was  valued  by  Dr.  Rock  at  £300. 
Originally  in  the  possession  of  the  Emperor  Napoleon, 
it  was  presented  by  him  to  Cardinal  Fesch,  by  him  to 
Cardinal  Fieschi,  by  him  to  the  Rev.  H.  P.  Heneage,  by 
him  to  the  Rev.  D.  Haigh,  and  by  him  to  Dr.  Amherst. 
It  now  occupies  a  position  of  honour  in  the  sacristy  at 
Oscott. 

The  Very  Rev.  Rodolphus  Provost  Bagnall  died  at 
Handsworth,  on  the  i8th  of  November,  in  his  82nd 
year.  His  remains  were  taken  to  Oscott  and  there 
interred,  on  the  24th,  in  the  vault  beneath  the  Sanctuary. 

In  the  course  of  this  year  an  important  and  exceed- 
ingly useful  work  of  a  domestic  character  was  undertaken 
at  Oscott  by  the  erection,  near  the  Home  Farm,  of  a 
Steam  Laundry  containing  every  modern  appliance. 
This  work  was  due  to  the  energy,  and  the  perfection  of 
it  in  great  measure  to  the  skill  of  the  Vice-President,  the 
Rev.  J.  J.  Daly. 

1884.  On  the  Feast  of  St. .  Chad  (March  2nd)  the 
Very  Rev.  Dr.  Northcote  was  installed  Provost  of  the 
Chapter  in  the  Cathedral  Church  at  Birmingham.  His 
Lordship  Dr.  Ilsley,  the  Bishop-Auxiliary  of  the  Diocese, 
was  pleased  on  the  occasion  to  say  of  him,  in  testimony 
of  his  worth,  "  As  a  priest  he  had  done  able  service  in 
this  diocese  on  the  mission,  and  he  had  especially  dis- 
tinguished himself  by  the  ability  and  devotedness  with 
which  he  had  for  seventeen  years  governed  the  College 
of  S.  Mary's,  Oscott" 

During  this  year  Dr.  Acton,  the  President,  was  elected 
to  a  Canonry  in  the  Cathedral  Church  of  S.  Chad  in 
succession  to  the  late  Canon  Estcourt 

On  the  ist  of  December  the  Rev.  H.  F.  C.  Logan, 
D.C.L.,  died  at  Clifton  in  his  86th  year.  For  some  time 


Dr.  Logan  was  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  College,  and  from  September  1847  to 
September  1848  the  President  of  Oscott. 

1885-  Much  regret  was  experienced  and  expressed 
when,  in  the  early  days  of  1885,  it  was  announced  that 
the  Very  Rev.  Dr.  Acton  had  resigned  the  Presidency  of 
Oscott. 

.  On  the  1st  of  January,  the  Very  Rev.  J.  H.  Canon 
Souter  was  appointed  the  President,  with  the  Rev.  J. 
Caswell  as  Vice-President.  His  Lordship  the  Bishop, 
in  his  announcement  of  the  appointment  stated,  that 
"  Canon  Souter  is  so  well  known  for  his  success  in  the 
guidance  of  youth,  and  for  his  long  experience  in  the 
management  of  educational  establishments,  as  well  as  for 
the  interest  which  he  takes  in  Oscott,  of  which  he  was  an 
alumnus,  that  it  will  be  unnecessary  for  me  to  say  more 
than  that  I  place  the  fullest  confidence  in  his  zeal  and 
competency  for  the  important  office  now  entrusted  to 
him." 

On  the  i /th  of  January,  Lieut.  Rudolph  de  Lisle,  R.N., 
fell  at  Abu  Klea  in  the  Soudan — struck  down  at  the  post 
of  duty.  Oscotians  sincerely  mourned  his  loss,  for  the 
nobility  of  his  character  caused  •  him  to  be  worthily 
beloved.  An  admirable  memoir  of  his  life  was  written 
by  the  Rev.  H.  N.  Oxenham,  of  which  a  reviewer  has 
truly  said — 

"  These  graceful  touching  chapters  tell  their  own  tale 
of  simple  faith,  unstained  thoughts,  and  high  deeds  of 
courage.  They  were,  we  think,  '  worthy  the  writing,' 
and  we  can  but  hope  that  many  of  our  Catholic  young 
men  will  be  stirred  in  reading  them  to  imitate  what  they 
read.  Mr.  Oxenham  has  contributed  a  fair  page  to 
English  Catholic  literature.  It  would  have  been  a  pity 
indeed,  had  no  record  been  left  to  the  world  of  Rudolph 
de  Lisle." 

Feb.  loth.  By  the  death  of  Lieut.-Col.  Robert  Charles 
Coveny,  Oscott  lost  one  of  whom  it  had  just  cause  to  be 


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proud.  Col.  Coveny  was  born  on  the  4th  of  November, 
1842,  and  entered  Oscott  as  a  student  in  1859.  1°  ^62 
he  entered  the  army  as  ensign  in  the  23rd  Regt,  but 
exchanged  into  the  42nd  or  "  Black  Watch "  in  Sep- 
tember of  the  same  year.  In  this  regiment  he  saw 
much  active  service  and  had  a  brilliant  career.  He  took 
part  in  the  Ashantee  war,  and  was  engaged  in  the 
Egyptian  operations,  in  which  he  fell  in  the  battle  at 
Kerbekan  on  the  roth  of  February. 

A  well  known  and  respected  Oscotian,  Mr.  Timothy 
Parker,  died  at  Leamington,  on  January  the  ipth,  in  his 
89th  year.  For  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century 
he  had  paid  weekly  visits  to  Oscott  as  a  professor  of 
calisthenics,  &c. 

Monsignor  Thomas  Bryan  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Carthagena,  in  Spain,  on  January  the  25th.  Dr.  Bryan 
came  to  Oscott,  as  a  student,  in  1838,  and  his  Lordship 
is  now  the  thirteenth  Oscotian  who  has  been  raised  to 
the  Episcopal  dignity. 

On  the  23rd  of  April  His  Lordship,  Dr.  Hedley,  O.S.B., 
Bishop  of  Newport  and  Menevia,  paid  his  first  visit  to 
Oscott  since  his  consecration,  and  obtained,  as  usual  on 
such  occasions,  a  whole  play-day  for  the  students. 

In  the  month  of  August  the  restoration  and  redecora- 
tion  of  the  roof  of  the  chapel  was  commenced. 

1886.  A  special  issue  of  the  Oscotian  was  published 
in  June,  which  was  denominated  the  "  Bishop  Ullathorne 
Number."  This  contained  an  ably  written  "  Story  of  his 
life,"  a  selection  of  letters,  and  numerous  portraits.  The 
work  was  hailed  with  universal  delight,  and  received, 
as  it  merited,  universal  approbation,  as  the  following 
review  will  tend  to  show  : — 

"  In  both  execution  and  design  all  who  have  taken 
part  in  the  July  number  of  this  popular  magazine,  have 
reason  to  feel  gratified  with  their  work,  while  the  imme- 
diate promoters  who  have  intended  to  commemorate 
through  it  the  fortieth  anniversary  of  the  consecration 


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• 

of  Bishop  Ullathorne,  First  Bishop  of  Birmingham,  as 
well  as  the  eightieth  anniversary  of  the  birth  of  that 
worthy  prelate,  have  also  reason  to  feel  proud  of  the 
motives  which  gave  birth  to  so  admirable  a  conception." 

The  British  Association  held  their  annual  meeting  this 
year  in  Birmingham  in  the  month  of  August,  and  a  large 
number  of  the  members  availed  themselves  of  the  oppor- 
tunity of  visiting  Oscott  They  were  introduced  by  the 
Rev.  W.  Greaney,  Administrator  of  St,  Chad's  Cathedral, 
and  received  at  the  College  by  his  Lordship,  Dr. 
Ullathorne,  Canon  Souter,  and  the  Rev.  J.  Caswell. 

At  the  General  Election  in  September  two  Oscotians 
were  successfully  returned  to  serve  in  Parliament.  These 
were  Mr.  Edwin  de  Lisle  and  Sir  Thomas  H.  Grattan 
Esrnonde,  Bart.  ;  the  former  for  the  Loughborough 
Division  of  Leicestershire,  and  the  latter  for  the  Southern 
Division  of  the  County  of  Dublin. 

On  the  recommendation  of  Lord  Salisbury,  Her 
Majesty  the  Queen  was  graciously  pleased  to  grant  a 
pension  on  the  Civil  List  to  the  well-known  poet  and 
journalist  Mr.  Charles  Kent  for  his  literary  labours. 
Mr.  Kent  was  admitted  at  Oscott,  as  a  student,  in  1838. 

1887.  The  Jubilee  of  Her  Gracious  Majesty  Queen 
Victoria  was  enthusiastically  celebrated  at  Oscott  on 
June  2 ist.  Solemn  High  Mass  was  sung,  and  the  festivi- 
ties closed  in  the  evening  by  a  grand  Benediction  and 
the  "  Te  Deum."  An  extra  week  was  added  to  the 
midsummer  vacation  in  honour  of  the  event. 

During  the  month  of  September  the  Library  Associa- 
tion of  England  held  its  annual  meeting  in  Birmingham, 
and  nearly  a  hundred  of  the  members  visited  Oscott  on 
the  2oth,  being  introduced  by  the  Rev.  W.  Greaney. 

This  brief  account  of  the  visit  of  the  Librarians  to 
Oscott  serves  as  an  appropriate  occasion  for  recording 
and  recognising  the  labours  of  the  Rev.  J.  Caswell,  Vice- 
President  and  Librarian,  who  has  devoted  many  months 
of  patient  toil  in  revising  and  perfecting  the  catalogue 
of  books  in  the  College  Library. 


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The  College  Feast  of  St.  Cecily  was  celebrated  on  Nov. 
22nd,  and  amongst  many  distinguished  guests  was 
Captain  Frederick  F.  Fegen,  R.N.,  who  was  received 
by  the  students  with  immense  applause.  Captain  Fegen's 
gallant  conduct  in  the  attack  on  a  slave  dhow  off 
the  coast  of  Zanzibar  on  the  3Oth  of  May  in  this  year 
received  from  the  Press  throughout  the  country  a  tribute 
of  admiration. 

During  dessert  the  "  Battle  of  the  Nile  "  was  given  as 
one  of  the  songs,  and  a  liberty  taken  (for  this  once)  with 
the  last  verse,  which  was  paraphrased  thus  : — 

Arise  !  ye  sons  of  festive  sport ;  arise  !  join  hand  in  hand ; 

Receive  our  British  tar  with  a  cheer  that  fits  his  fame, 
And  greet  the  gallant  deeds  of  the  defender  of  our  land 

As  an  everlasting  glory  to  our  name. 
An  Oscott  sailor's  name  henceforward  shall  be  penn'd 

A  terror  to  his  foes  and  a  blessing  to  his  friend. 
For  the  gallant  ship  Turquoise  let  us  give  three  cheers,  my 

boys, 
And  tell  ages    yet     unborn  what   deeds    our  Fegen   has 

performed. 

1888.  The  Jubilee  of  our  Holy  Father  Leo  XIII.  was 
celebrated  with  great  enthusiasm  at  the  College  on 
January  ist.  Canon  Souter,  the  President,  was  in  Rome 
for  the  occasion,  and  had  the  honour  of  an  audience  on 
the  previous  29th  of  December.  On  the  festal  day, 
Canon  Souter  entertained  at  dinner,  in  the  Hotel  d'Angle- 
terre,  a  distinguished  number  of  Oscotians.  Amongst 
them  were  their  Lordships  the  Bishops  of  Nottingham, 
Shrewsbury,  Northampton,  San  Luis  Potosi,  and  Cartha- 
gena,  Monsignor  Stonor,  the  Earl  of  Denbigh,  and  the 
Revs.  G.  Williams,  Mgr.  Slaughter,  B.  Ward,  F.  Williams, 
F.  E.  Mostyn,  L.  Spencer,  &c.,  &c. 

On  the  22nd  of  March  his  Lordship,  Dr.  Ilsley, 
was  enthroned  in  the  Cathedral  Church  of  St.  Chad  as 
second  Bishop  of  Birmingham  in  the  presence  of  the 
chapter  and  clergy  of  the  diocese  and  a  vast  congregation. 
On  the  27th  of  April  His  Holiness  Leo  XIII.  was 
graciously  pleased  to  elevate  the  venerated  Dr.  Ullathorne, 


CAPTAIN  FEGEN,  R.N. 

(From  a  Photograph  by  Russell  &•»  Sons,  17,  Baker  Street,  Portman  Square) 


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NO.  22. 

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first  Bishop  of  Birmingham,  to  the  Archiepiscopal  See  of 
Cabasa.  And  at  once  from  far  and  near,  from  those 
within  the  Church,  and  from  those  without,  came  the 
warmest  greetings  and  congratulations  to  His  Grace,  and 
the  genuine  heartfelt  wish  of  one  and  all,  "  ad  multos 
annos." 

On  the  1st  of  May  the  Hon.  and  Rt.  Rev.  Monsignor 
Stonor,  ever  mindful  of  his  Alma  Mater,  presented  as  his 
jubilee  gift  to  the  College  a  painting  of  St.  George,  which 
was  placed  over  the  Altar  of  St.  George  in  the  chapel. 

On  the  2Qth  of  May,  the  Jubilee  day  of  Oscott's 
consecration,  a  Solemn  High  Mass  was  sung  by  the 
Vice-President,  the  Rev.  J.  Caswell,  and  in  the  evening 
Benediction  was  solemnly  given  and  the  "  Te  Deum  " 
sung. 

The  public  celebration  of  the  Jubilee  was  postponed 
to  the  month  of  July,  when  three  days,  the  23rd,  24th, 
and  25th,  were  set  apart  for  that  purpose.  The  Annual 
Exhibition  Day  was  arranged  for  the  latter  date,  which, 
by  a  happy  coincidence,  was  also  the  day  appointed  for 
the  consecration  of  the  Very  Rev.  Thomas  W.  Canon 
Wilkinson,  V.G.,  as  Coadjutor  Bishop  to  his  Lordship 
Dr.  O'Callaghan,  the  Bishop  of  Hexham  and  Newcastle. 
Dr.  Wilkinson  was  a  former  alumnus  of  Oscott,  and  is  now 
the  fourteenth  of  her  students  raised  to  the  Episcopacy. 

And  a  final  record  remains  to  be  made.     This,  though 

'  O 

the  last,  is  by  no  means  the  least  in  importance  or 
interest  to  the  College  and  Oscotians.  For  another 
striking  coincidence  occurs  in  connection  with  the  cele- 
bration of  the  College  Jubilee,  and  that  is  the  Jubilee 
relationship  of  the  estimable  President,  Canon  Souter, 
with  St.  Mary's  Oscott.  Fifty  years  ago,  in  1838, 
Monsignor  Souter  was  admitted  a  student  in  the  old 
College,  and  passed  amongst  the  earliest  students  into 
the  new.  Many  years  of  experience  as  the  Superior  of 
educational  establishments  have  well  fitted  him  for  the 
position  of  President  of  Oscott,  and  to  every  Oscotian  it 
will  be  a  source  of  unfeigned  gratification  that  his  merits 


no 

have  been  so  signally  recognised.  His  Holiness  Lo 
XIII.  has  been  graciously  pleased,  in  this  month  of  July, 
to  confer  on  Canon  Souter  the  dignity  of  Domestic 
Prelate  of  His  Holiness.  Oscott  shares  in  the  honour 
so  bestowed,  and  Oscotians  will  undoubtedly  present 
their  hearty  congratulations,  and  express  the  hope  that 
'the  Right  Rev.  Prelate  may  be  spared  to  enjoy  the 
dignity  for  many  a  year  to  come. 

A  few  days  afterwards  the  boys  presented  the  following 
address,  beautifully  illuminated,  to  Monsignor  Souter,  in 
the  Northcote  Hall  : — 

Monsignore, 

It  becomes  the  Students  of  Oscott,  living  under  your 
fatherly  care,  to  be  the  first  to  testify  the  joy  and  gratification 
with  which  your  new  dignity  will  be  welcomed.  No  congratula- 
tions will  be  warmer,  or  more  sincere,  than  those  we  now  offer, 
gladly  noting  how  well  both  time  and  place  are  suited  to  this 
honour. 

To  be  called  to  the  household  of  the  Sovereign  Pontiff  must 
be  at  all  times  a  rare  distinction ;  but  especially  so  when 
conferred  by  such  a  Pope  as  Leo  XIII.,  and  at  this  season  of 
his  Jubilee. 

That  joyful  occasion  falls  happily  in  the  same  year  as  our 
own,  which  is  thus  marked  by  an  event  honouring  the  College 
no  less  than  its  President.  Nevertheless  the  tribute  is  deservedly 
a  personal  one.  It  comes  to  crown  many  years  of  earnest  and 
patient  work ;  to  set  a  worthy  seal  upon  services  of  high  merit 
rendered  to  the  Church ;  and  to  adorn  a  character  renowned 
for  every  priestly  virtue. 

Lastly,  it  affords  us  an  opportunity  we  readily  embrace  of 
declaring,  not  only  our  reverence  for  your  office ;  not  only  our 
esteem  and  admiration  for  your  character;  but  also  the  deep 
affection  that  we  all  feel  towards  you. 

May  this  house  flourish  under  your  kindly  rule,  and  may  you 
yourself  be  endued  with  all  prosperity  and  happiness  for  many 
long  years  to  come. 

Signed  on  behalf  of  all  the  Students, 

RICHARD  PEARCE  O'REILLY,  P.M. 


Ill 


With  the  record  of  the  celebration  of  the  Jubilee  day 
these  Oscotian  annals  close.  Much  that  is  interesting 
has,  of  necessity,  been  left  untold,  and  of  that  which  is 
recorded,  much  but  imperfectly  related.  Yet  the  record, 
however  inadequate,  may  serve,  perchance,  to  link 
together  the  five  decades  of  Oscott's  history,  and  per- 
petuate the  remembrance  of  events  well  nigh  forgotten. 

May  the  retrospection  and  contemplation  of  the 
fruitful  and  glorious  days  in  Oscott's  past  history  excite 
within  the  breasts  of  her  devoted  sons  a  deepened  interest 
in  her  future  welfare,  and  lead  them  to  unite  in  these 
Jubilee  days  in  a  heartfelt  chorus  of  salutation 

(Dscotia." 


HENRY  NORRIS. 


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(Dscott's  Sfyare  in  tfye  Restoration  of 
Christian  21rt 


IT  was  about  half  a  century  ago  that  the  worn  out 
Puritanism  of  English  Protestantism  suddenly  collapsed. 
The  main  features  of  what  is  most  beautiful  in  Catholic 
Antiquity  had  been  gradually  brought  back  to  the  minds 
of  cultivated  Englishmen,  by  the  study  of  Dugdale  and 
Spelman  and  Maitland,  of  Walter  Scott  and  Kenelm 
Digby  ;  and  it  was  left  to  the  passionate  soul  of  Augustus 
Pugin  to  impress  once  more  upon  the  ecclesiastical  and 
civil  architecture  of  this  country,  the  mysterious  forms  and 
solemn  severity  of  the  Ages  of  Faith.  It  has  been  my 
good  fortune  to  have  grown  up  under  the  shadow  of 
buttressed  towers  designed  by  Pugin,  and  to  have  rested 
in  early  infancy  my  wandering  eyes  upon  his  gorgeous 
decorations.  There  is  something  of  eastern  splendour, 
min-gled  with  simplicity,  at  once  rich  and  quiet,  in  the 
exuberant  mixture  of  gold  and  colour  which  this  great 
artist  reintroduced  into  England  after  a  century  and  a 
half  of  whitewash  and  false  marbling.  One  of  the  best 
examples  of  this  revived  polychrome  is  still  to  be  seen  in 
the  roof  and  apse  of  St.  Mary's  Chapel  at  Oscott,  although 
the  soft  tone  of  the  indigo  blue,  which  used  to  sooth  my 
soul  during  the  long  hours  of  devotion  in  schoolboy  days, 
is  wanting  in  the  latest  restoration.  In  the  desolate 
chapel  near  to  "  the  ivied  ruins  of  forlorn  Gracedieu," 
which  is  now  closed  to  public  worship,  the  fretted  rood- 
screen,  the  stone-canopied  ciborium  altar,  the  return 
stalls  of  a  miniature  but  complete  choir,  all  bear  witness 
to  the  correctness  with  which  the  usages  of  English 
Catholic  Antiquity  were  revived  some  fifty  years  ago. 
The  Houses  of  Parliament  too,  with  their  splendid  display 


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of  heraldic  blazon,  carved  groinings,  fantastic  gargoiles, 
and  prayer  breathing  legends  .  ;i  the  sculptured  walls, 
remind  me  now,  during  the  intervals  of  tedious  debate 
and  noisy  obstruction,  of  the  thoughts  which  the  genius 
of  Gracedieu  and  of  Oscott  impressed  upon  me  in  early 
hopeful  days.  Perhaps  these  circumstances  may  be  my 
excuse  for  having  accepted  the  invitation  of  the  Editor 
of  the  Oscotian  to  write  a  few  pages  upon  Oscott's 
prominent  connection  with  the  revival  of  the  liturgical 
worship  of  Catholic  Antiquity  in  England,  together  with 
its  attendant  handmaidens,  the  pointed  architecture,  the 
symbolic  painting  and  millinery,  the  stained  glass  windows 
and  rough  Gregorian  tones  of  the  days  when  Popes  were 
saints  and  laymen  were  Crusaders.  I  fear,  however,  that 
my  slight  effort  in  this  direction  will  be  sensibly  wanting 
in  that  artistic  temperament  and  brilliancy  of  diction, 
which  lesser  lights  than  Mr.  Gladstone  are  doomed 
to  forfeit,  when  they  become  immersed  in  Home  Rule 
controversies  or  Local  Government  reforms.  Nor 
must  my  readers  expect  to  find  in  these  brief  remarks  a 
complete  account,  even  of  the  most  superficial  character, 
of  that  remarkable  movement  which  was  not  confined 
within  the  remnant  fold  of  the  old  Catholic  families.  In 
some  respects  it  was  most  vitally  quickened  in  the  bosom 
of  the  separated  Anglican  Church — witness  the  labours 
and  successes  of  the  Camden  Society,  and  of  that 
admirable  publication  the  Ecclesiologist — and  has 
brought  about  the  restoration  upon  ancient  lines  of 
almost  every  Cathedral  and  parish  church  in  the  land. 
But  what  most  concerns  us,  perhaps,  is  the  recollection  of 
those  salient  facts,  the  publications  of  Cardinal  Wiseman, 
Canon  Smith,  Dr.  Rock,  Augustus  Pugin  and  others,  which 
were  the  forerunners  of  a  multitude  of  other  books  and 
pamphlets,  which  contained  such  well-digested  stores  of 
antiquarian  research,  steeped  in  the  combative  zeal  of  the 
enthusiastic  reformer. 

From  a  theological  and  controversial  point  of  view,  I 


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should  be  inclined  to  say  that  the  most  important  work 
connected  with  this  period  of  Oscott's  history,  was  Canon 
Bernard  Smith's  Glossary  of  Ecclesiastical  Ornament, 
or  rather  the  learned  antiquarian's  notes  to  "  Pugin's 
Glossary."  The  liturgical  and  artistic  lore  which  this 
work  contains  is  truly  marvellous,  and  no  unprejudiced 
student  can  fail  to  perceive  that  whatever  the  merits  or 
demerits  of  the  modern  Roman  Ritual,  it  certainly  is  the 
only  form  of  Christian  worship  which  remains  at  this  day 
in  strict  conformity  with  the  apostolic,  dark,  and  middle 
ages,  so  far  at  least  as  they  are  revealed  to  us  in  the 
literature  and  art-remains  which  have  survived  of  those 
first  ten  centuries.  The  pictorial  part  of  this  noble  work, 
still  too  little  studied  in  our  ecclesiastical  seminaries,  is 
splendidly  done  in  gold  and  colour,  and  well  carries  out 
the  two  great  canons  of  criticism  laid  down  in  the  preface  : 
"  that  art  has  its  fixed  principles,  any  departure  from 
which  leads  to  inconsistency  and  unmeaning  effect  ;  and 
that  every  ornament,  to  deserve  the  name,  must  possess 
an  appropriate  meaning,  and  be  introduced  with  an 
intelligent  purpose  and  on  reasonable  grounds."  I  am 
not  sure  whether  Dr.  Wiseman  or  Dr.  Weedall  was 
•President  of  Oscott  in  1853,  but  that  year  was  memorable 
for  the  publication  of  "  Pugin's  true  principles  of  Pointed 
or  Gothic  Architecture,  set  forth  in  two  lectures  delivered 
at  St.  Marie's,"  certainly,  for  its  day,  a  most  remarkable 
work,  and  one  which  has  had  some  real  effect  upon  the 
taste  of  our  generation.  The  two  great  rules  for  which 
Pugin  fought  are :  that  there  should  be  no  features  about 
a  building  which  are  not  necessary  for  convenience, 
construction,  or  propriety  ;  and  that  all  ornament  should 
consist  of  enrichment  of  essential  construction  of  the 
building.  "  In  pure  architecture  the  smallest  detail  should 
have  a  meaning,  or  serve  a  purpose  ;  and  even  the  con- 
struction itself  should  vary  with  the  material  employed, 
and  the  designs  should  be  adapted  to  the  material  in 
which  they  are  executed." 

In  this  eloquent  work  a  reasoned  and  downright  attack 


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was  made  upon  the  debased  classical  style,  the  tawdry 
ornaments  and  pagan  spirit  then  predominant  in  Catholic 
Christendom,  in  things  ecclesiological,  and  this  no  doubt 
raised  up  a  certain  sectarian  attitude  on  both  sides,  the 
Gothic  and  the  Italian,  which  has  not  altogether  had  a 
happy  effect  in  our  own  Catholic  Communion  ;  but  on  the 
whole  we  may  congratulate  ourselves  that  the  more 
masculine  form  of  the  Roman  ideal  is  that  cultivated 
under  the  noble  vault  of  the  Oratory  in  London,  whilst 
the  true  mediaeval  devotion  of  St.  Chad's,  at  Birmingham, 
still  survives  within  the  sacred  precincts  of  the  gilded 
rood-screen. 

About  the  same  time  the  professor  of  ecclesiastical 
antiquities  at  St.  Marie's  published  his  "  Apology  for  the 
revival  of  Christian  Architecture  in  England,"  which  was 
quaintly  dedicated  to  the  then  Earl  of  Shrewsbury, 
Waterford  and  Wexford,  with  this  prayer  : — "  May  God 
in  his  mercy  grant  that  as  your  Lordship's  noble  ancestor, 
the  Talbot  of  famous  memory,  extended  the  temporal 
glory  of  England  by  deeds  of  arms,  so  may  your  Lordship 
continue  to  increase  the  spiritual  welfare  of  these  realms 
by  reviving  the  antient  glories  of  the  English  Church,  of 
whose  faith  your  noble  house  has  furnished  so  many 
witnesses."  The  lecture  concluded  with  a  patriotic  appeal 
to  the  historic  and  higher  sense  of  the  modern  English- 
man, and  echoed  a  sentiment  which  has  at  least  found  a 
home  in  the  Association  for  Promoting  the  Unity  of 
Christendom,  as  well  as  in  the  heart  of  many  an  Oscotian, 
who  has  read  the  writing  on  the  walls  of  his  Alma  Mater. 

"An  Englishman  needs  not  controversial  writings  to 
lead  him  to  the  faith  of  his  fathers ;  it  is  written  on  the 
wall,  on  the  window,  on  the  pavement,  on  the  highway. 
Let  him  look  on  the  tombs  of  those  who  occupy  the  most 
honourable  position  in  the  history  of  his  country, — the 
devout,  the  noble,  the  valiant,  the  wise, — and  he  will 
behold  them  with  clasped  hands  invoking  _the  Saints  of 
Holy  Church,  whilst  the  legend  round  the  slabs  begs  the 


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prayers  of  the  passers  by  for  their  soul's  repose.  At 
Canterbury  he  beholds  the  pallium,  emblem  of  the  juris- 
diction conferred  by  S.  Gregory  on  the  blessed  Austin, 
first  primate  of  this  land  ;  at  York,  the  keys  of  Peter, 
with  triple  crowns,  are  carved  on  buttress,  parapet  and 
wall.  Scarcely  one  village  church  or  crumbling  ruin  that 
does  not  bear  some  badge  of  ancient  faith  and  glory. 
Now  the  crosses  on  the  walls  tell  of  anointing  with  holy 
chrism  and  solemn  dedication — the  sculptured  font  of 
sacraments  seven,  and  regeneration  in  the  laver  of  grace  : 
the  legend  on  the  bell  inspires  veneration  for  those  con- 
secrated heralds  of  the  Church  ;  the  chalice  and  host  on 
priestly  tomb  teaches  of  altar  and  sacrifice  ;  the  iron- 
clasped  ambry,  sculptured  in  the  wall,  bears  record  of 
holy  Eucharist,  reserved  for  ghostly  food — the  stoups  in 
porch,  and  galilee,  of  hallowed  water,  and  purification 
before  prayer ;  while  window,  niche,  spandrel  and  tower 
set  forth  by  pious  effigies  that  glorious  company  of  angels, 
prophets,  apostles,  martyrs  and  confessors,  who,  glorified 
in  heaven,  watch  over  and  intercede  for  the  faithful  upon 
earth.  The  Cross — that  emblem  of  a  Christian's  hopes — 
still  surmounts  spire  and  gable ;  in  flaming  red  it  waves 
from  the  masts  of  our  navy,  over  the  tower  of  the 
Sovereign's  palaces,  and  is  blazoned  on  London's  shield. 
The  order  of  S.  George,  our  patron  Saint,  founded  by 
King  Edward,  of  famous  memory,  is  yet  the  highest 
honour  that  can  be  conferred  by  Sovereigns  on  the 
subject ;  and  his  chapel  is  glorious  and  his  feast  kept 
solemnly.  Our  cities,  towns  and  localities,  the  rocky 
islands  which  surround  our  shores,  are  yet  designated  by 
the  names  of  those  saints  of  old,  through  whose  lives, 
martyrdoms  or  benefactions,  they  have  become  famous. 
The  various  seasons  of  the  year  are  distinguished  by  the 
masses  of  these  holy  tides.  Scarcely  •  is  there  one  noble 
house  or  family  whose  honourable  bearings  are  not 
identical  with  those  blazoned  on  antient  church,  or 
window,  or  chantry  tomb,  which  are  so  many  witnesses  of 
the  pious  deeds  and  faith  of  their  noble  ancestry.  Nay 


more,  our  Sovereign  is  solemnly  crowned  before  the  shrine 
of  the  saintly  Edward,  exhorted  to  follow  in  the  footsteps 
of  that  pious  King,  and  anointed  with  oil  poured  from  the 
same  spoon  that  was  held  by  Canterbury's  prelates  eight 
centuries  ago.  In  short,  Catholicism  is  so  interwoven 
with  everything  sacred,  honourable  or  glorious  in  England, 
that  three  centuries  of  puritanism,  indifference  and 
infidelity,  have  not  been  able  effectually  to  separate  it. 
It  clings  to  this  land,  and  developes  itself  from  time  to 
time,  as  the  better  feelings  of  a  naturally  honourable  man 
who  had  been  betrayed  into  sin.  What !  an  Englishman  and 
a  Protestant !  oh  worse  than  parricide,  to  sever  those  holy 
ties  that  bind  him  to  the  past,  to  deprive  himself  of  that 
sweet  communion  of  soul  with  those  holy  men,  now 
blessed  spirits  with  God,  who  brought  this  island  from 
pagan  obscurity  to  the  bright  ness  of  Christian  light, — 
who  covered  its  once  dreary  face  with  the  noblest  monu- 
ments of  piety  and  skill, — who  gave  those  lands  which 
yet  educate  our  youth,  support  the  learned  and  from  whom 
we  received  all  we  have  yet  left  that  is  glorious,  even  to 
our  political  government  and  privileges." 

I  may  be  pardoned  this  long  extract  for  the  sake  of 
its  eloquence ;  but  I  have  chosen  it  rather  for  the  very 
appropriate  manner  in  which  it  describes  to  my  mind  the 
genius  of  Oscott  as  I  knew  her  best,  in  the  days  of 
Provost  Northcote  and  Bishop  Knight.  The  routine  of 
the  scholastic  year  bound  up  with  the  Liturgical  seasons 
of  the  Church,  the  retreat  in  Holy  Week,  and  the  solemn 
services  of  the  three  great  days,  the  Sunday  rest  from 
books  and  slates,  with  the  jolly  afternoon  games  at 
cricket,  scout,  or  bandy,  filling  up  the  glad  hours  between 
the  High  Mass  and  solemn  Vespers,  the  procession  of  the 
Relics  round  the  cloisters  on  Apostles'  and  R6gation  days, 
the  floral  decorations  of  Corpus  Christi — all  these  things 
endowed  with  life  the  thoughts  and  customs  which  art 
has  enshrined  upon  the  mediaeval  walls  of  England,  and 
which  Cardinal  Wiseman,  Dr.  Weedall,  Lord  Shrewsbury, 
and  Pugin  determined  should  be  exemplified  in  the  laws 
and  life  of  New  Oscott. 


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Many  things  have  happened  since  those  days  to  check, 
and  break,  and  divide  the  stream  of  the  Catholic  revival, 
which  at  one  time  showed  signs  of  sweeping  all  before  it 
in  these  lands.  Some  would  have  it  that  the  breath  of 
heresy  tainted  this  enthusiastic  love  of  the  past ;  others, 
ignorant  of  the  higher  antiquity  of  Roman  forms  and 
uses,  confounded  the  decadence  of  Michael  Angelo's 
heroic  flights  with  the  splendid  masculine  tradition 
which  still  survives  in  all  the  great  Papal  Basilicas. 
Others  seemed  to  sicken  at  the  contemplation  of  the 
simple  virtues  of  Saxon  saints,  and  longed  to  transplant 
to  our  schools  the  over-wrought  piety  of  southern  lands. 
But  amidst  the  conflicts  of  these  inner  schools  of  thought, 
the  broad,  sound  English  tradition  of  Catholic  life  and 
worship  has  never  been  driven  out  of  Oscott,  and  at  this 
first  jubilee  of  the  New  College,  I  wonder  whether  those 
who  take  part  in  the  celebration,  and  join  in  the  solemn 
Te  Deum  of  thanksgiving  with  legitimate  satisfaction, 
will  not  also  feel  with  me  that,  if  much  has  been  accom- 
plished, we  are  not  what  we  might  have  been  had  the 
pristine  tradition  of  Ushaw,  Old  Hall  Green,  and  Oscott  < 
never  been  impugned.  In  the  Established  Church  the 
movement  has  gone  on  with  slight  check  or  hindrance. 
The  external  and  internal  appearance  of  every  church  in 
the  land  has  undergone  a  transformation,  and  there  is 
scarcely  a  choir  which  does  not  look  much  more  fitted 
for  the  celebration  of  a  mediaeval  High  Mass  than  for 
the  cold  ceremonial  of  the  Communion  Service  as  it  was 
formerly  wont  to  be  performed. 

But  I  will  not  enter  upon  controversial  ground, 
although  I  have  found  it  impossible  to  look  back  half 
a  century  and  not  to  feel  that  Oscott  no  longer  holds 
the  leading  place  she  then  could  truly  boast  in  the 
aesthetic  and  intellectual  sides  of  the  English  religious 
awakening.  It  may  be  that  these  functions  are  being 
performed  elsewhere,  and  in  a  manner  better  becoming 
the  social  transformation  through  which  we  are  quickly 
passing.  As  the  old  country  houses  are  losing  their 


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historic  owners,  and  the  treasures  which  generations  of 
cultivated  squires  and  noblemen  so  lovingly  collected 
are  being  sold  by  the  auctioneer  to  the  newest-made 
millionaire,  so  it  may  be  that  schools  of  the  stately, 
simple  style,  yet  full  of  mediaeval  treasure,  are  not  the  best 
place  to  rear  the  pushing  man,  who  is  to  survive  and 
thrive  in  the  fearful  competition  of  this  busy,  waning 
century.  But  it  is,  at  least,  pleasant  to  range  along  the 
corridors  of  Oscott,  and  to  view  the  fine  examples  of 
antient  sacred  painting,  to  wander  in  the  libraries  and 
open  the  classic  books  of  old-world  lore,  to  loiter  in  the 
well-arranged  museum,  and  wonder  at  the  choice  col- 
lection of  woven  gothic  vestments,  sacred  vessels, 
illuminated  manuscripts,  and  curiously-wrought  wood 
carvings,  and  to  hope  that  a  school  with  such  a  history, 
though  still  a  short  one,  may  live  and  thrive  to  celebrate 
its  centuries. 

In  the  words  of  the  inscription  over  the  chief  door 
which  looks  out  towards  the  smoking  chimneys  of  toiling, 
grimy  Birmingham,  this  place  was  erected  "  Religioni 
ac  bonis  Artibus."  Full  well  it  has  accomplished  its 
mission,  and  an  Oscotian,  when  he  now  treads  the  streets 
of  the  Midland  capital  of  industry,  gratefully  feels,  that 
much  of  the  Catholic  spirit,  and  much  of  the  Gothic 
culture  which  fifty  years  ago  was  invisible,  save  in  the 
minds  of  the  founders  of  Oscott,  has  been  spread  abroad 
from  this  centre  of  educational  activity.  We  may  claim, 
who  cherish  the  Oscott  tradition,  like  the  venerable 
Archbishop  whose  presence  yet  hallows  and  adorns  its 
precincts,  to  have  had  no  mean  share  in  the  remaking  of 
modern  England. 

EDWIN  DE  LISLE. 


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©scott,  tfje  Centre  of  tfye  Catholic 


THE  heading  of  this  section  either  tells  a  very  'great 
truth  or  it  makes  a  very  great  assumption.  Every 
Catholic  college  is  a  centre  of  the  Catholic  movement. 
From  each  radiates  in  its  alumni  that  faith  whose  light 
reveals  or  illustrates  and  adjusts  all  knowledge ;  whose 
ardour  in  seeking  the  end  of  life  aspires  to  and  compasses 
the  highest  sanctity,  leaving  none  who  has  the  gift 
without  the  power  to  execute  more  perfectly  the  highest 
human  duty.  Every  Catholic  college,  moreover,  has  sent 
out  men  of  renown — priests  and  laymen  faithful  and 
illustrious  in  the  discharge  of  all  duties  great  or  small. 
Among  these  colleges  stands  upon  a  "  bleak  mount," 
which  it  has  clothed  with  exuberant  foliage  and  the 
beauties  of  art  and  invested  with  the  grace  of  richest 
memories,  ours  of  St.  Mary  It  also  is  a  centre  of  the 
Catholic  movement.  Can  it  be  called  the  centre  ? — the 
centre  of  that  mighty  movement  of  grace  which  has 
endured  in  its  great  features  well-nigh  a  century ;  which 
has  lifted  the  remnant  of  English  Catholics  from  degra- 
dation before  the  law,  disorganisation  among  themselves, 
and  the  position  at  best  of  a  minority  too  weak  to  sustain 
the  dignity  and  duties  of  hierarchical  order,  into  full  civil 
freedom,  the  majestic  beauty  of  a  great  hierarchical 
province,  the  power  and  sense  of  organic  unity,  and  the 
possession  of  opportunities  for  combined  action,  only  too 
little  used  ?  If  this  be  true,  true  adequately  to  the 
support  of  such  a  claim,  St.  Mary's  has  had  a  great  past, 
and  should,  if  we  do  not  prove  degenerate,  have  a  great 
future.  Let  us  see. 


CHAPEL  OF  THE    NEW    COLLEGE     OF   STMARIE'S,  OSCOTT. 
CONSECRATED     MAY    29  T«    1636. 


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The  present  times  are  born  of  the  great  upheaval  of 
society  which,  in  its  mightiest  manifestation,  was  the 
French  Revolution.  Every  nation  of  the  civilised  world, 
however  determinedly  it  resisted  the  force  of  those 
changes  as  they  took  shape  in  the  French  Republic,  or 
the  insatiable  empire  of  Napoleon,  felt  the  same  spirit 
within  its  own  borders,  and  had  to  deal  with  it.  And  it 
was  not  easy  to  deal  with.  It  was  a  seductive  spirit, 
filling  its  mouth  with  great  truths,  and  proclaiming  them 
in  such  a  way  as  to  kindle  enthusiasm.  But  in  the 
enthusiasm  was  only  the  wild  fervour  of  passion,  capable 
of  mighty  things  in  destroying,  but  too  unconscious  of 
itself  to  work  out  the  great  problems  of  social  order.  In 
so  far  as  these  problems  were,  or  are  being,  worked  out 
it  is  due,  first,  to  the  overruling  Providence  of  God,  and, 
secondly,  to  those  great  men  who,  understanding  fidelity 
to  the  divine  order  to  be  the  only  basis  of  stable  progress, 
worked  to  maintain  or  re-establish  it  with  an  enthusiasm 
which  knew  how  to  wait  as  well  as  how  to  act.  This  is 
the  fervour  which,  if  it  nerves  one  arm  to  destroy,  nerves 
both  to  build  again  in  fairer  form  and  juster  proportions. 
It  goes  hand  in  hand  with  sobriety  and  discrimination. 
It  has  its  roots  in  patient  wisdom,  and  is  neither  rash  nor 
timid.  Undying  hope  and  unflagging  industry  is  written 
upon  its  works  and  ways,  and  while  it  looks  forward  and 
in  its  disciplined  ardour  is  prophetic  of  the  future,  it  is 
ever  looking  back  and  grounding  its  progress  upon  the 
beaten  paths  traced  by  the  wise  of  old.  Happily  for  this 
country,  those  who  had  her  ear,  and  directed  her  ways, 
had  this  just  enthusiasm.  In  giving  them  power  she 
drew  to  her  aid  the  overruling  Providence  of  God,  and  at 
length,  when  the  deeper  throes  of  the  Revolution  had 
ceased  and  society  could  look  back  calmly  upon  the  past, 
whatever  was  best  in  the  wild  spirit  of  change  which  her 
own  wise  and  indomitable  enthusiasm  had  controlled  she 
proceeded  to  assimilate  to  her  own  organic  unity. 

This  is  true  of  England  in  relation  to  the  natural  order 
of  society,  as  is  apparent.     It  is  also  true  of  her  relation 


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to  the  supernatural  order.      That  we  Catholics    in  this 
united   kingdom    exist    to-day    complete    in    our   own 
ecclesiastical  unity,  and  are  the  envy  of  the  world  in  our 
religious  freedom,  is  due  to  the  broad  but  measured  spirit 
of  enthusiasm  which,  during  the  last  century,  has  guided 
our  country  in  its  relation  to  the  rights  of  all  its  subjects. 
It  has  been  neither  rash  nor  timid.     It  has  adopted  no 
impossible  ideals,  nor  admitted  any  degrading  conception 
of  "  the  rights  of  man,"  but  has  measured  them  by  the 
one  and  only  standard,  the  rights  of  God  ;  and  from  this 
standpoint  has  known  how  to    apply  gradually  to  her 
people  what  is  attainable  on  earth  of  liberty,  fraternity, 
and  equality.     Elsewhere  these  words    are  only  words. 
They  are   writ   large,    indeed,  upon   the  walls,  but  the 
people  who  read  them  from  the  streets  below,  laugh  and 
shake  their  heads  with  many  a  sardonic  grimace  at  the 
bitter  experience  they  have  had  of  their  meaning.     The 
rough  and  ready  way  of  giving  them  an  hour's  trial  is 
always   suggesting   itself,   and    now   and    again    finding 
ready    hands    to  give    another  bitter  interpretation  of 
their  double-edged   application.     In  our  country  things 
have  been  otherwise,  thank  God.     These  fine  words  are 
not    often  on  the  lips,  nor  are  they  to  be  seen  inscribed 
on    public    buildings  ;    but,  as    measured    by  their  just 
standard,  they  have  been  the  guiding  principles  of  the 
legislature,  applied    sooner  or  later  to  all  classes.      To 
none  have  they  been  applied  more  honourably  than  to 
us  Catholics.     The  prejudice  against  us  is  still  a  factor 
to  be  counted  with,  as  we  learn  from  daily  experience ; 
what  it  was  a  hundred  years  ago  we  may  hardly  conceive. 
But  the  inheritors  of  that  prejudice  have  known  how  in 
time  to  rid  themselves  of  it,  or  having  acknowledged  it,  to 
grant  us  in  defiance  of  its  dictate  those  rights  to.  which 
we  were  otherwise  seen  to  have  an  equal  title.     But  who 
were  they  who  had  her  ear  and  were  allowed  to  control 
and  direct  her  ways?    In  this  Catholic  movement  who 
charmed    her    ear   with    their   persuasive  eloquence,  or 
thundered  out  our  claims  till  fear  let  loose  her  sense  of 


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justice,  or  with  ever  vigilant  eye  watched  her  against  the 
moment  of  precipitate  action,  and  then  with  words,  plain, 
direct,  and  clear,  taught  her  to  pause  till  she  knew  how 
to  make  good  her  steps?  Who,  looking  home  to  the 
hearth  of  faith,  kept  its  flame  burning  clear,  unquenched 
by  persecution,  fenced  round  against  the  stealth  of  flattery, 
fed  by  a  ministry  neither  qualified  by  worldliness,  nor 
relaxed  by  fatigue  ?  Of  these  our  Jubilee  brings  many 
into  relief;  but  first  of  them  all  is  John  Milner,  the 
founder  of  St.  Mary's,  to  whom,  before  all,  we  owe  the 
greatness  which  belongs  to  us  in  the  past :  to  whose 
abiding  presence  we  shall  owe  whatever  of  greatness 
awaits  us  in  the  future. 

II. 

But  his  work  in  England  is  not  to  be  understood, 
nor  is  the  early  history  and  influence  of  this  great 
college  of  the  Midland  District,  without  making  some 
ugly  revelations.  It  is  time,  however,  to  make  them. 
All  history,  rightly  viewed,  illustrates  the  glory  of  Christ, 
and  therefore  of  His  Church,  which,  as  His  bride,  ever 
remains  without  spot  or  wrinkle.  And  what  is  more  to 
our  immediate  purpose,  all  that  has  to  be  said,  however 
deplorable,  does  but  enhance  the  glory  of  Oscott.  To 
be  true  and  candid  is  the  shortest  way  to  establish  her 
renown.  And  if,  in  the  necessary  candour,  grievous  facts 
have  to  be  told,  it  is  the  only  Christian  habit  of  mind  to 
tell  ourselves  that  had  we  been  in  like  circumstances  we 
might  have  given  occasion  to  a  worse  record. 

It  must  then,  at  the  outset,  be  declared  that  a  schis- 
matical  spirit  was  abroad  in  England,  with  powerful 
agents  and  definite  projects,  for  a  period  of  forty  years, 
and  that  Milner's  glory  lies  in  this — that  he  spent  his  life, 
as  priest  and  bishop,  in  doing  battle  with  it.  His  earthly 
course  is  another  bright  commentary  on  the  words  :  This 
is  the  victory  which  overcometh  the  world — your  FAITH  ; 
and,  indeed,. in  the  keenness  of  his  vision,  in  the  vigour 


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of  his  onslaught,  and  the  sanctity  of  his  life,  there  was 
much  to  recall  St.  Athanasius  and  St.  Jerome. 

In  however  brief  a  way,  some  of  the  leading  characters 
of  this  spirit  of  schism  must  be  presented  to  view  before 
recording  its  activity.  It  has  its  own  literary  exponents, 
and  one  of  these  was  the  priest  of  Oscott  from  1790  to 
1793,  the  year  previous  to  the  first  foundation  of.  the 
College.  The  Rev.  Joseph  Berington  and  his  compeers 
had  managed  to  get  well  into  their  minds  the  schismatical 
conception  that  the  Pope  was  a  foreigner  even  in  his 
relation  to  Englishmen  as  Catholics.  He  was  to  them  in 
many  ways  a  usurper  in  the  ecclesiastical  affairs  of  England ; 
the  martyrs  who  had  died  rather  than  take  the  oath  of 
supremacy  were  misguided  men  ;  for  their  part  they 
would  not  have  done  it,  and  certainly  the  oath  might  be 
taken  now.  Times  had  changed,  and  had  put  a  new 
interpretation  upon  it.  They  it  was  who  made  up  the 
English  Church,  which  had  its  own  liberties,  and  should 
be  representative  of  its  constituents.  As  for  the  Vicars 
Apostolic,  they  were  emissaries  of  a  foreign  prelate.  The 
laity  did  not  need  their  aid  to  interpret  oaths  or  draw 
them  up.  If  they  saw  their  own  way  to  take  the  oath 
of  supremacy  it  was  neither  faith  nor  reason  but  prejudice 
which  hindered  them.  "  One  bold  man,  by  taking  it,  may 
dissipate  the  whole  charm  of  prejudice  and  restore  us  to 
the  most  valuable  privileges  of  British  citizens."  As  for 
the  martyrs,  they  were  "  victims  of  Roman  ambition." 
Catholics  for  centuries  had  been  very  unwise.  Even  in 
Elizabeth's  time  they  had  made  very  "  unsatisfactory  and 
provoking  answers "  before  going  to  the  gallows.  In 
James  the  First's  time  Paul  V.  had  condemned  the  new 
oath  of  allegiance,  but  he  was  very  unwise — "  the  king  had 
never  been  wiser  or  more  humane  than  in  framing  this 
oath."  Charles  II.  would  have  done  them  a  great 
service  ;  he  wished  to  draw  a  distinction  between  those 
who  "  being  of  ancient  extraction  had  continued  of  the 
same  religion  from  father  to  son  and  those  who  had 
become  proselytes  to  the  Catholic  Church,"  but  "  the 


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perverse  opposition  of  some  weak  heads  had  spoiled  the 
design,  and  moderate  men,  who  desired  nothing  but  the 
exercise  of  their  religion  in  great  secrecy,  were  cruelly 
disappointed."  James  II.  had  conceived  some  "  wild 
projects  of  introducing  Popery,"  but  William  of  Orange 
was  too  good  a  politician  to  be  inclined  to  ways  of 
violence  or  persecution.  Catholics  soon  experienced  the 
lenity  of  his  government.  "  He,  forsooth,  because  he 
was  a  Protestant  and  had  dethroned  James  II.,  could  do 
nothing  which  this  new  race  of  Catholics  would  not  thank 
him  for,  if  only  they  might  conciliate  their  Protestant 
brethren,  and  slip  from  under  the  operation  of  the 
penal  laws."  He  had  ousted  the  Catholics  from  London 
and  Westminster ;  he  put  every  horse  they  might  have 
up  to  public  sale  for  all  comers,  at  all  hours,  at  £5,  and 
threw  in  their  arms  gratis ;  he  offered  .£100  to  any  traitor 
who  would  discover  a  priest  and  bring  him  to  trial  and  a 
life-long  imprisonment  ;  he  shut  out  Catholics  from  the 
franchise ;  he  would  not  have  them  keep  schools — on 
that  point  the  severity  of  the  code  must  be  maintained 
and  re-inforced  ;  he  would  not  have  a  Catholic  possessed 
of  any  title  to  acquire  land,  either  by  purchase  or  descent. 
And  then,  too,  Glencoe  was  not  a  long  way  back  in  the 
past,  nor  the  Treaty  of  Limerick.  But  he  was,  after  all, 
a  Protestant,  and  the  new  mode  was  to  say,  therefore, 
sweet  words  of  him.  Cruelty,  and  tyranny,  and  wild 
projects,  and  at  best  fatuity  are  the  words  for  those  who 
accounted  "  the  life  more  than  the  meat,"  and  "  renounced 
all  things,  yea  life  itself"  to  hand  down  the  faith  to  us. 

That  such  a  spirit  existed,  and  that  it  co-existed  with 
much  that  was  in  other  ways  generous,  and  courteous, 
religious,  and  even  ascetic,  was  the  danger  underlying 
Catholic  life  in  England  during  the  last  twenty  years  of 
the  past  century,  and  the  first  twenty  of  this.  Represen- 
ted and  countenanced  as  it  was  in  the  highest  quarters 
among  the  laity,  far  from  being  unknown  among  the 
clergy,  so  disguised  as  to  gain  support  even  from  bishops, 
the  occasion  only  was  wanted  for  it  to  issue  in  acts  of 


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schism,  and  especially  at  a  time  when  the  wave  of  revolu- 
tion seemed  to  be  engulphing  even  the  Papacy  in  its 
irresistible  flood.  Briefly  to  record  the  progress  of  this 
schismatical  movement  is  necessary  before  endeavouring 
to  understand  the  first  great  stage  of  the  Catholic 
movement  as  it  centres  round  Milner  and  his  College 
of  Oscott 

III.   §i. 

In  1778  an  Act  of  Relief  had  been  passed  which  freed 
Catholics  from  the  worst  of  the  penal  enactments  of 
William  of  Orange.  It  was  not  the  first  evidence  of  the 
good  disposition  of  George  III.  towards  them,  and  was  a 
recompense  for  their  address  of  loyalty.  To  him,  first  of 
the  Hanoverian  line,  the  Catholics  had  offered  their 
allegiance,  seeing  that  his  title  de  facto  had  issued  in  one 
de  jure  and  being  drawn  to  him  by  his  own  acts  of  con- 
ciliation. How  many  families  which  had  borne  the  brunt 
of  their  country's  persecution  did  not  bear  up  against  its 
favour,  it  is  not  the  place  to  record.  But  it  is  much  to  the 
point  to  observe  that  the  extreme  course  of  apostacy  on 
the  part  of  many  helps  us  to  understand  how  weak  and 
prone  to  schism  was  the  faith  in  many  more  who  remained 
professedly  Catholic. 

Within  five  years  of  this  Act,  which  had  been  passed 
without  opposition  in  Parliament  or  dissension  among 
Catholics,  five  gentlemen  constituted  themselves  into  a 
committee  to  manage  Catholic  affairs.  They  did  not 
scruple  to  express  their  intentions.  One  was  to  consti- 
tute the  Vicars  Apostolic  in  the  full  power  of  Ordinaries, 
so  as  to  prevent  the  frequent  recurrence  to  Rome  for 
dispensations  and  other  matters,  to  the  end  that  the 
voice  of  the  laity  might  have  its  share  also  "  in  regulating 
every  part  of  our  national  Church  discipline,"  and  that 
as  a  consequence,  "  the  discipline  of  the  Church  might  be 
made,  as  near  as  may  be,  conformable  to  the  laws  of  their 
country  "  and  "  to  the  practice  of  the  primitive  Church." 
From  this  Committee  proceeded  such  constant,  ubiquitous 


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and  public  interference  with  the  spiritual  jurisdiction  of 
the  Church,  that  the  Prince  of  Wales  spoke  of  the  peer 
whose  influence  upon  it  was  paramount,  as  occupying 
with  his  own  royal  father,  the  dignity  of  being  head  of  a 
Church. 

In  1788  the  secretary,  Charles  Butler,  was  instructed 
by  them  to  prepare  a  bill  for  the  repeal  of  the  penal  laws, 
and,  as  a  preliminary,  a  Protestation  was  drawn  up  and 
carried  round  the  country  for  the  signatures  of  the 
Catholic  body.  To  draw  up  a  protestation  against  the 
wild  opinions  attributed  to  Catholics  in  such  a  way  as 
not  to  infringe  theological  truth  would  not  have  been  an 
easy  task  for  Mr.  Butler,  even  if  he  had  been  quite  free 
from  the  taint  of  the  schismatical  spirit.  However  easy 
it  was,  for  instance,  to  renounce  the  doctrine  of  the 
deposing  power  in  relation  to  England,  to  renounce  it  as 
in  itself  impious  and  damnable  and  heretical  is  clearly 
not  within  a  Catholic's  right.  Hence  the  necessity  of 
submitting  such  instruments,  involving,  as  they  must, 
statements  of  doctrine,  to  the  divinely  appointed 
witnesses  and  judges  of  the  faith.  In  the  case  of  the 
Protestation  this  was  designedly  not  done  ;  the  document 
was  therefore  by  no  means  satisfactory,  nor,  unhappily, 
was  it  meant  to  be  so.  But  still,  in  some  sense  and 
under  some  restrictions,  the  bishops,  the  clergy,.and  the 
laity,  to  the  number  of  over  1,500,  did  sign  it  as  inter- 
preted and  explained  by  its  authors,  many  at  the  same 
time  exacting  a  condition  and  promise  that  it  should  not 
be  followed  by  an  oath.  They  might  sign  dangerous 
words  according  to  a  right  interpretation,  but  they  would 
not  in  the  most  solemn  way  make  words  their  own  by 
oath,  unless  their  own  conscience  justified  them.  Promise 
and  condition  however  notwithstanding,  when  the 
draft  of  the  bill  saw  the  light  in  1789,  it  was  found  to 
have  a  new  oath  appended  which  would  debar  every 
conscientious  Catholic  from  seeking  relief  under  it.  The 
oath  was  in  substance  a  return  to  the  Oath  of  Allegiance 
condemned  by  Paul  V.,  the  Irish  Oath  of  the  Act  of 


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1778  being  deliberately  and  with  sinister  intention 
eschewed.  Stranger  still,  a  declaration  was  prefixed  to 
the  oath  of  the  most  astounding  nature.  Every  Catholic, 
in  order  to  benefit  by  the  Act,  was  to  declare  himself  a 
Protesting  Catholic  Dissenter — /  (A.  B.)  declare  myself 
to  be  a  Protesting  Catholic  Dissenter.  Could  it  be  a  piece 
of  solemn  pleasantry  at  the  expense  of  the  dignity  of 
Parliament  and  of  the  Vicars  Apostolic  ?  Far  from  it ; 
it  was  not  only  the  serious  utterance  of  a  schismatical 
spirit,  but  was  a  carefully  prepared  plan  to  create  schism. 
When  the  political  friend  of  the  committee,  Mr.  Milford, 
afterwards  Lord  Redesdale,  presented  the  bill  in  1791, 
he  endeavoured  to  commend  it  to  the  House  by  dis- 
tinguishing Catholic  Dissenters  from  Catholic  Papists. 
These  were  cruel,  bloody-minded  bigots ;  those  were 
inoffensive  subjects  of  his  Majesty  suffering  persecution 
from  within  and  without. 

The  Vicars  Apostolic  were  on  the  alert.  They  issued 
an  encyclical  letter,  dated  October  21  st,  1789,  condemning 
the  oath.  But  who  were  they  to  command  obedience  ? 
The  Secretary  sent  them  the  Committee's  reply,  bound 
in  red  morocco,  containing  an  appeal  to  the  people,  and 
a  letter  insulting  and  calumnious  to  them  and  the  Holy 
See.  This  Red  Book  was  shortly  printed  without  title, 
stitched  in  blue  cover,  and  circulated  among  the  people, 
to  become  famous  as  the  first  Blue  Book.  In  a  few 
months  two  of  the  four  Vicars  Apostolic  died,  and  the 
Committee  were  at  once  afoot  to  have  Bishops  instituted 
in  their  room  according,  as  they  had  said,  "  to  the 
primitive  practice  of  the  Church."  They  accordingly 
elected  Dr.  Charles  Berington, — whose  name,  with  that  of 
the  Rev.  Joseph  Wilks,  O.S.B.,  of  Bath,  had  been  added 
to  the  Committee, — to  the  vacant  Southern  District,  which 
included  London.  He  was  then  living  at  Oscott,  occu- 
pying the  enlarged  house  which  Bishop  Hornyold  had 
built  for  the  Vicars  Apostolic,  and  which  still  forms  part 
of  the  old  College.  When  the  consent  of  Rome  was  not 
to  be  had,  some  went  so  far  as  to  wish  their  elect  to 


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insist  upon  his  election  as  canonical,  and  to  enter  upon 
possession.  There  was,  however,  a  limit  to  his  pliancy, 
and  when  Dr.  John  Douglas  was  in  due  course  formally 
appointed,  he  dated  a  letter  from  Oscott,  November  4, 
1790,  entreating  them,  by  every  motive,  to  grant  the  new 
Vicar  Apostolic  the  same  support  they  had  so  liberally 
promised  to  himself,  "  their  most  obedient,  humble 
servant." 

The  two  new  Vicars  Apostolic  of  the  Northern  and 
Southern  Districts  with  Bishop  Walmesley  of  the  Western 
District,  being  assembled  in  synod,  proceeded  to  condemn 
anew  the  schismatical  oath  and  appellation  in  an  en- 
cyclical letter  of  January  19,  1791.  Dr.  Thomas  Talbot 
of  the  Midland  District  did  not  attend,  and  did  not, 
therefore,  sign  this  second  condemnation  ;  and  if  any 
reason  beyond  that  of  health  is  required  to  explain  his 
absence,  the  fact  that  his  coadjutor's  name  appears  at 
the  foot  of  the  protest  which  followed,  is  quite  enough. 
This  protest  has  a  legal  solemnity  which  shows  the 
Secretary's  hand.  It  is  the  chief  document  of  the  second 
Blue  Book,  and  is  an  open  declaration  of  schism.  As 
being  the  most  celebrated  of  Charles  Butler's  productions 
in  his  capacity  of  Secretary  to  the  Catholic  Committee, 
so  called,  some  portion  had  better  be  quoted,  It  leads 
off  thus  : — "  Therefore,  my  Lord  Bishop  of  Rama,  V.A. 
of  the  Western  District ;  my  Lord  Bishop  of  Acanthos, 
V.A.  of  the  Northern  District ;  my  Lord  Bishop  of 
Centuriae,  V.A.  of  the  Southern  District — your  lordships 
having  brought  matters  to  this  point — convinced  that  we- 
have  not  been  misled  by  our  clergy,  convinced  that  we 
have  not  departed  from  the  principles  of  our  ancestors, 
convinced  that  we  have  not  violated  any  article  of 
Catholic  faith  or  communion,  we,  the  Catholic  Com- 
mittee, whose  names  are  here  underwritten,  for  ourselves 
and  for  those  in  whose  trust  we  have  acted,  do  hereby, 
before  God,  solemnly  protest,  and  call  upon  God  to 
witness  our  protest  against  your  lordships'  encyclical 


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letters  of  the  iQth  day  of  October,  1789,  and  the  2ist 
day  of  January  last ;  and  every  clause,  article,  determina- 
tion, matter,  and  thing  therein  respectively  contained,  as 
imprudent,  arbitrary,  and  unjust."  The  encyclicals,  they 
go  on,  encroach  on  their  natural,  civil,  and  religious 
rights,  and  inculcate  principles  hostile  to  society  and 
government,  and  to  the  constitution  and  laws  of  the 
British  empire ;  and  they  finally  appeal  "  to  all  the 
Catholic  Churches  in  the  universe,  and  especially  to  the 
first  of  all  Catholic  Churches,  the  Apostolic  See,  rightly 
informed." 

They  accordingly  continued  their  exertions  to  have 
the  bill  passed  without  any  alteration  of  the  oath  or 
of  the  schismatical  appellation. 

The  bill  was  introduced  on  March  the  1st  of  the  year 
1791.  Mr.  Mitford  carefully  set  in  relief  the  claim  of  the 
Catholic  Dissenters  as  distinct  from  the  Catholic  Papists  ; 
but  a  celebrated  handbill  being  circulated  in  the  House, 
caused  the  postponement  of  the  bill  for  three  months. 
When  it  was  a  second  time  introduced,  Catholics  found 
their  ordinary  name  of  Roman  Catholics  again  assigned 
to  them  ;  and  by  the  time  it  reached  its  final  reading  in 
the  Lords,  the  oath,  which  had  been  changed  and 
changed  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the  Vicars 
Apostolic,  had  been  given  up  altogether  and  the  oath  of 
the  Act  of  1778  substituted. 

The  committee  felt  their  defeat  grievously,  more 
than  all  their  marvellously  clever  and  busy  secretary ; 
who,  having  followed  up  the  decisive  Statement  of  Facts 
in  the  handbill  by  one  of  his  own,  now,  in  the  chagrin  of 
failure,  published  it  with  other  documents  in  The  Third 
Blue  Book. 

Two  days  after,  on  June  the  9th,  a  meeting  was  held  to 
celebrate  the  passing  of  the  Bill.  One  Vicar  Apostolic 
attended  in  person,  another  by  deputy  ;  but  their  amend- 
ment to  thank  the  Committee  for  the  civil  benefits  of  the 
Act,  and  to  thank  the  Bishops  for  having  obtained  an 


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orthodox  oath,  was  put  down  by  unrestrained  clamour. 
Determined,  moreover,  to  wrest  another  triumph  over  the 
Bishops  from  the  meeting,  the  Committee  proposed  that 
the  Protestation  which  had  preceded  the  condemned 
oath  should  be  deposited  in  the  British  Museum  ;  and 
according  to  the  Secretary's  return,  21  priests  and  83 
laymen  voted  for  the  proposition,  and  against  42  laymen 
and  30  priests,  including  I  bishop  and  a  bishop's  deputy. 

Still  another  discordant  song  of  triumph  would  the 
Committee  have  sung  at  the  meeting.  The  clergyman  of 
Bath  who  had  signed  the  two  schismatical  Blue  Books 
had  been  interdicted  from  his  ministry.  His  bishop's 
deputy  being  called  upon,  declared  in  that  bishop's  words 
the  cause  :  the  said  clergyman  had  rebelled  and  protested 
against  the  divinely  established  government  of  the  Church 
by  bishops  and  their  authority — a  crime  no  less  than 
schism.  Thereupon  it  was  moved  that  a  letter  be  read 
from  fourteen  of  the  clergy  of  Staffordshire  in  which 
they  lamented  the  suspension,  and  pledged  themselves  to 
make  the  schismatical  priest's  cause  their  own.  And  in 
this  matter  the  principal  agent  of  the  Committee  had 
been  the  Rev.  Joseph  Berington,  then  priest  of  Oscott 
It  will  be  seen  that  the  Committee,  which  either  under 
the  name  of  the  Cisalpine  (i.e.  Antipapal)  Club  or  the 
Catholic  Board  claimed  the  direction  of  Catholic  affairs 
in  England  till  the  rise  of  the  Irish  and  British  Associa- 
tions, had  a  two-fold  line  of  operations,  one  through  the 
clergy  and  the  other  through  Parliament.  This  summary 
of  their  procedure  will  avail  itself  of  this  distinction,  and 
thus  divided  will  enable  us  the  better  to  follow  Milner's 
counter-operations,  and  see  the  place  Oscott  occupies  in 
the  strife  and  victory. 

Ill,  §2. 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  the  absence  of  the  name 
of  the  Right  Rev.  Dr.  Talbot,  V.A.  of  the  Midland 
District  from  the  second  Encyclical  Letter,  was  an 


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encouragement  to  the  Committee.  They  could  therefore 
leave  his  name  out  of  their  Protest,  and  insinuate  a 
division  among  the  Bishops.  But  much  more  to  them 
was  the  presence  of  the  name  of  his  coadjutor  among 
their  own  as  one  who  abetted  and  consented  to  their 
doings.  He  was  endowed,  says  Milner,  with  superior 
talents  and  the  sweetest  temper,  but  was  unhappily  in  the 
hands  of  certain  powerful  laymen  and  certain  of  their 
clerical  friends  and  took  his  guidance  from  them. 

When,  in  1795,  he  succeeded  to  Dr.  Talbot,  the 
Committee  put  forth  all  their  force  to  keep  him  from 
signing  a  form  of  retractation  sent  from  the  Holy  See, 
they  even  invoked  the  help  of  Pitt  and  other  politicians, 
and  it  was  not  till  1797  that  Dr.  Bew,  his  vicar  general  and 
President  of  the  newly  instituted  College  of  Oscott, 
induced  him  to  sign.  And  even  then  he  so  far  acted  with 
the  Committee  as  to  append  certain  words  containing  the 
clause  salva  fidelitate  Regia  majestati. 

At  his  death,  in  1798,  Pope  Pius  VI.  being  a  prisoner 
in  Napoleon's  hands,  Dr.  Bew  entered  into  conflict  with 
the  Senior  Vicar  Apostolic,  Dr.  Gibson,  of  the  Northern 
District,  claiming  to  be,  during  the  vacancy,  the  legiti- 
mate source  of  jurisdiction.  In  the  year  following,  the 
heroic  Pontiff  died  in  prison  ;  but  in  1800,  by  a  wonderful 
interposition  of  Providence,  Pius  VII.  was  elected  Pope 
during  the  sudden,  brief  overthrow  of  Napoleon's  army 
in  Italy,  and  having  settled  the  Vicar  Apostolic's  right, 
he  presently  appointed  Dr.  Gregory  Stapleton  to  the 
vacant  Vicariate,  and  upon  his  death  in  1802,  the  oppo- 
sition of  the  Cisalpine  party  being  again  overcome, 
raised  to  the  same  dignity  and  the  titular  see  of  Castabala, 
Dr.  John  Milner,  by  brief  of  March  i,  1803. 

Meanwhile  another  great  event  in  the  Catholic  history 
of  England  had  occilrred.  The  French  Revolution  gave 
occasion  to  a  blessed  proof  of  the  nation's  hospitality. 
No  less  than  8,000  priests  had  landed  on  our  shores, 
exiles  for  their  faith,  with  many  monks  and  nuns.  1  hey 
were  received  with  universal  generosity.  The  King 


'33 

assigned  to  them  his  house  of  Winchester,  and  as  many 
as  a  thousand  were  harboured  there  ;  and  contributions 
for  their  support  were  received  from  all  sides.  It  is, 
however,  sad  to  record  that  some  leading  Cisalpines 
were  by  no  means  of  this  mind.  What  was  to  be  done 
with  this  inroad  of  monks  and  nuns  and  friars?  The 
Vicars  Apostolic  ought  to  look  to  it  and  advise  them 
how  far  they  were  bound  by  their  oath  and  honour  not 
to  connive  at  a  wilful  transgression  of  an  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment. At  length,  in  1800,  a  section  of  the  Protestants, 
stung  with  the  sense  of  defeat  in  a  celebrated  argument, 
thought  of  annoying  the  Catholics.  The  presence  of  the 
French  clergy  offered  an  opportunity  ;  some  had  already 
been  sent  out  of  the  kingdom  for  making  converts.  But 
readiest  to  hand  were  the  nuns.  Against  these  it  was 
resolved  to  proceed,  and  a  species  of  Alien  Act  was  intro- 
duced. Some  fair-minded  members,  however,  had  reduced 
and  relaxed  the  bill  very  much,  and  it  was  likely  to  be  lost, 
when  a  compromise  was  announced.  They  had  been 
dealing  with  the  Cisalpines  as  if  these  were  authorised  to 
come  to  terms  for  the  poor  recluses.  But  at  this  juncture 
a  friend  of  the  nuns  warned  them  that  they  were  betrayed, 
and  advised  them  to  throw  themselves  on  the  humanity 
of  the  House  of  Lords.  This  was  done  and  the  bill 
thrown  out. 

The  presence  of  the  French  clergy  brought  manifest 
blessings:  but  there  was  one  drawback.  When  Pius  VII., 
in  1 80 1,  made  a  Concordat  with  Napoleon,  and  recon- 
stituted the  sees  of  France,  a  certain  number  of  clergy  in 
France  and  in  England  appealed  against  him.  Of  those 
in  England  nine-tenths  returned  ;  of  those  who  remained 
a  considerable  number,  among  whom  an  Abbe  Blanchard 
made  himself  conspicuous  by  his  schismatical  writings, 
refused  to  acknowledge  the  Pope's  action,  denied  that  the 
French  Church  was  part  of  the  Church  Catholic,  and 
attributed  schism  to  His  Holiness.  This  scandal  vexed 
the  Church  in  England  till  the  year  1818.  In  1810  the 
Vicars  Apostolic  agreed  that  no  French  priest  should 


134 

say  mass  or  hold  faculties  who  did  not  take  a  test  formally 
repudiating  the  doctrine  that  Pius  VII.  was  a  schismatic 
or  heretic.  This  was  published  in  the  Midland  District; 
but  in  the  London  District,  where  it  was  most  wanted,  it 
was  not  published,  and  a  priest  named  Trevaux,  who 
had  been  interdicted  from  his  ministry,  was  admitted 
again  to  his  functions  after  making  an  apology  and  with- 
out taking  the  test.  This  caused  grave  scandal  in  Ireland 
as  well  as  in  England,  and  the  Irish  prelates  did  not 
hesitate  to  declare  that  schism  was  openly  countenanced 
in  the  London  District  by  the  re-admission  of  Trevaux  to 
his  sacred  functions. 

On  which  side  the  sympathy  of  the  Cisalpines  in 
this  struggle  was  expended  is  clear  from  their  professed 
principles.  But  the  Cisalpine  Club  had  ceased  in  name, 
though  in  the  Catholic  Board  which  was  instituted 
in  1807  on  an  extended  plan,  the  same  spirit  for  the 
most  part  endured,  and  the  same  minds  guided  its 
action.  A  curious  evidence  of  this  was  presently  given. 
In  1804  the  mania  had  seized  the  English  mind  that 
irreligion  could  be  stemmed  by  an  unlimited  distribution 
of  Bibles.  This  brought  an  old  reproach  in  a  new  form 
on  the  Catholic  Body,  and  the  Board,  in  order  to  refute 
the  charge  of  being  enemies  of  the  Bible,  instead  of 
appealing  to  the  true  doctrine  of  the  Rule  of  Faith, 
resolved  that  it  was  desirable  that  Catholics  should 
promote  a  gratuitous  distribution  of  the  sacred  Scriptures, 
and  invited  the  Vicars  Apostolic  to  be  patrons.  Some 
countenance  they  did  receive  from  one  or  more  of  them, 
but  the  only  product  was  a  small  edition  of  the  New 
Testament  almost  without  notes,  the  few  that  appeared 
being,  it  is  said,  inserted  to  satisfy  the  scruples  of  a  vicar 
apostolic. 

On  this  procedure  two  instructive  comments  appeared  : 
one  a  Rescript  from  the  Holy  See  condemning  such 
societies  as  "  a  crafty  device  for  weakening  the  foundations 
of  religion  ; "  the  other,  the  formation  by  Methodists  and 


135 

others  of  a  Catholic  Bible  Society  for  distributing  the 
Catholic  version,  without  its  notes,  with  the  solemnly 
expressed  intention  of  "  affording  the  benefit  of  a  turbid 
stream  to  a  thirsty  and  perishing  people." 

Finding  no  response  from  the  Catholic  clergy,  whom 
foolishly  enough  they  expected  to  ensnare,  nor  from  their 
flocks,  they  devised  another  plan.  In  the  two  districts  of 
London  —  west  and  east  —  where  most  of  the  poorer 
Catholics  were  to  be  found,  they  founded  Bible  schools 
wherein  Catholic  children  might  be  educated  gratis, 
without  contact  with  priests  or  learning  any  catechism, 
being  fed  religiously  upon  the  Bible  alone.  Strange  as 
it  must  appear,  the  guiding  spirit  and  exponent  of  the 
Catholic  Board  was  found  among  the  subscribers  and 
promoters  of  this  new  plan  for  robbing  Catholic  children 
of  their  faith.  The  same  system  was  carried  into  Ireland, 
but  was  speedily  checked  by  the  vigilance  of  the  Holy 
See. 

HI.  §3- 

But  the  Catholic  Committee,  as  constituted  under 
either  of  its  three  names,  had  another  line  of  operations 
much  more  legitimate.  In  promoting  measures  of  relief 
they  had  to  deal  with  politicians  and  ministries.  But 
they  had  been  weak  enough  to  lead  politicians  of  both 
parties  in  the  state  to  expect  that  if  they  gave  Catholics 
the  rights  of  citizenship,  Catholics  would  give  them  a 
quid  pro  quo.  And  as  the  Committee  and  their  political 
friends  both  desired  and  would  be  well  content  with  the 
same  thing,  namely,  the  crippling  of  the  relations  of  the 
Bishops  with  Rome,  we  find  them  mutually  playing  into 
each  other's  hands. 

One  politician  had,  from  the  year  1805,  conceived  a 
plan  much  after  the  ideas  of  the  Committee,  except  that 
whereas  they  wished  to  have  in  their  own  hands  the 
control  of  the  bishops  in  their  relations  with  the  Holy 
See,  Sir  John  Hippisley  wished  to  have  the  same  power 


136 

in  his,  as  the  head  of  a  rival  commission.  To  this  end 
he  was  often  letting  drop  some  reference  to  the  long 
sleepers,  as  he  termed  the  laws  of  Elizabeth's  reign, 
which  prohibited  intercourse  with  Rome  under  pain  of 
death,  and  was  making  a  study  of  all  the  circumscriptions 
and  restrictions  of  the  independence  of  the  Holy  See  in 
foreign  parts.  But  it  was  not  through  him  that  the 
Committee  worked. 

By  the  year  1808  it  was  confidently  believed  that,  so  far 
as  English  Catholics  were  concerned,  their  consent  was 
assured.  One  of  the  Committee  had  publicly  declared  that 
the  Government  had  only  to  ask  to  obtain  the  ruling  voice 
in  the  appointment  of  bishops.  In  the  letters  of  Peter 
Plimley,  the  author  roundly  asserts  that  the  Catholics 
had  long  since  expressed  to  His  Majesty's  Ministers  their 
perfect  readiness  to  grant  it.  It  was  even  asserted  by 
one  politician  in  Parliament,  that  he  knew  for  certain  that 
the  Catholics  would  not  be  content  with  emancipation 
without  some  restriction  of  this  kind  on  the  appointment 
of  their  bishops. 

But  Catholics  in  England  were  gradually  learning  that 
through  the  recent  Act  of  Union  a  great  change  had 
come  over  the  relations  between  ministries  and  the 
representatives  of  their  own  body.  The  Irish  had  a 
hierarchy  of  four  provinces  and  nearly  thirty  bishops, 
with  a  Catholic  people  behind  them  half  as  numerous  as 
the  population  of  England.  There  were,  according  to 
Sir  John  Hippisley's  calculation,  as  many  as  200,000 
Catholic  soldiers  and  sailors  serving  His  Majesty  at  one 
time  during  this  period  of  the  conflict  with  Napoleon. 
The  Irish  Episcopate  and  Irish  Catholic  Board  had 
agents  in  England,  very  shrewd  and  very  determined, 
and  as  through  these  as  well  as  in  Ireland  they  were 
working  with  far  more  power  than  the  English  Catholics 
could  command,  their  sense  as  regards  the  independence 
of  their  bishops  and  clergy  was  a  factor  in  the  struggle 
too  prominent  to  be  overlooked. 

This  became  fully  apparent  in  1 808.    Their  ecclesiastical 


137 

agent,  having  been  asked  by  Mr.  Ponsonby  what  power 
the  Irish  bishops  were  prepared  to  allow  the  State  in  the 
choice  of  the  bishops,  replied  that  he  had  no  authority 
from  them  to  speak,  but  would  write  to  consult,  mean- 
while he  ventured  to  say,  as  knowing  their  mind  and  the 
mind  of  the  Holy  See,  that  he  did  not  think  they  would 
be  indisposed  to  grant  such  control  as  would  satisfy  the 
Crown  of  the  loyalty  of  the  candidates,  provided  such 
restriction,  or  veto  as  it  was  afterwards  called,  was  limited 
in  a  given  case  to  a  very  few  times  and  strictly  confined 
to  the  question  of  loyalty.  The  use  made  of  this 
admission  so  alarmed  the  Irish,  both  bishops  and  people, 
that  they  at  once  proceeded  to  reject  it  formally;  and  for 
a  time  their  agent  required  all  his  address  to  recover  his 
place  in  their  esteem. 

Two  years  after  occurred  a  series  of  events,  difficult  to 
narrate  briefly,  but  of  immense  importance.  The  resolu- 
tion of  the  Irish  Bishops,  expressing  the  determination 
of  both  clergy  and  laity,  stood  in  the  way  if  the  Board's 
scheme  was  to  succeed.  Lord  Grenville,  therefore,  their 
political  friend,  published  at  the  beginning  of  the  year  a 
letter  to  an  Irish  lord  within  his  confidence,  in  which  he 
spoke  of  complicated  arrangements  which  would  have  to 
be  made  before  emancipation  could  be  granted  in  order 
to  secure  their  own  civil  and  religious  establishments, 
one  of  which  was  a  voice  in  the  choice  of  bishops.  From 
this  letter,  by  mutual  understanding,  the  Board  selected 
a  passage,  trimmed  it  down  somewhat  so  as  to  disguise 
its  import,  tried  by  every  means  to  get  the  approval  of 
the  Irish  agent,  and  not  succeeding  with  him,  did  succeed 
in  hoodwinking  the  five  other  Bishops  in  England,  who, 
under  every  species  of  entreaty,  pressure,  clever  verbiage 
and  explaining  away,  at  length,  one  after  another,  added 
their  names  to  those  of  the  Board.  This  resolution, 
known  as  the  fifth,  being  put  in  the  form  of  a  petition, 
was  presented  to  the  House.  The  hope  was  that  the 
Irish  would  be  decoyed  into  accepting  it — a  vain  hope 
which  never  had  a  shadow  of  plausibility.  Earl  Grey 


'38 

made  much  of  the  resolution  in  presenting  it  to  the 
House  of  Lords,  but  unhappily  for  its  Catholic  sup- 
porters was  altogether  too  candid,  referring  it  back  to 
the  letter  of  Earl  Grenville  from  which  it  had  been 
extracted,  and  letting  it  be  well  understood  that  the 
letter  was  the  Creed  of  the  party. 

The  fruit  of  it  was  not  fully  seen  till  1813,  when  a  Bill 
having  been  introduced  by  Grattan  certain  clauses  were 
proposed    by   Canning,  as   the  condition  of  his  party's 
support,  which  not  only  assumed  a  veto  in  the  election  of 
Bishops,  but  placed  this  power  and  all  intercourse  with 
Rome,   even    of  correspondence,   into   the   hands   of  a 
Commission,  to  be  composed  of  some  Catholic  Peers  and 
rich    Commoners,   one    Bishop,   some    Protestant    Privy 
Councillors,  and  a  Protestant  Secretary  of  State.     Such 
a  Bill   could  never  have  passed   without  causing  open 
schism  and   undoing  all    that   had    been  done  towards 
emancipation.    It  had  become  evident  to  far-seeing  minds 
that  full  civil  emancipation  was  a  certainty  of  the  near 
future,  if  Catholics  would  only  hold  together  and  wait. 
But   this    Bill  would  only   relieve   such    as  would    part 
company  with  their  faith  and  would  have  again  reduced 
the  church  in    England    to   the   shifts   of  the   days    of 
persecution.     It  went   on   through  its   stages,   however, 
and  had  actually  reached  the  day  of  its  third  reading, 
when  the  speaker,  having  left  the  chair  for  the  last  formal 
stage  of  Committee,  suddenly  to  the  amazement  of  the 
House,  the  Ministry,  the  Catholic  Board,  and  the  whole 
Catholic  Body,  himself  proposed  that  the  clause  admitting 
Catholics  to  seats  in  either  House  should  be  left  out.     A 
vote  was  taken  and  a  majority  of  four  stood  against  the 
clause.     Thereupon  the  Bill  was  abandoned. 

The  indignation  of  the  Catholic  Board  was  great,  and 
ascribing  their  overthrow  to  the  Irish  ecclesiastical  agent 
whose  name,  in  the  hope  of  better  things,  stood  on  their 
list  of  members,  they  went  the  length  of  publicly 
expelling  him,  to  their  own  instant  discomfiture  and 
irretrievable  discredit. 


139 

Meanwhile  Sir  John  Hippisley,  who  in  1805  and  since 
has  done  much  service  in  stating  the  Catholic  claims,  was 
steadily  pursuing  his  crotchet,  and  had  drawn  up  his 
report.  He  at  last  obtained  the  consent  of  the  ministry 
to  submit  it  to  the  House  in  the  session  of  1817,  and  one 
good  result  was  immediately  seen.  The  Vicars  Apostolic 
and  their  coadjutors  seeing  the  design  no  longer  through 
the  mind  of  the  Catholic  Board,  but  as  laid  bare  by  the 
busy  persistence  of  an  independent  member,  drew  up 
some  resolutions  which  brought  them  into  accord  with 
the  Irish  agent ;  and  from  this  time  the  power  of  the 
Catholic  Board  may  be  said  to  have  been  irrecoverably 
lost. 

The  Catholic  people  of  England  had  now  been  edu- 
cated into  some  consciousness  of  their  own  mind  and 
their  own  power  ;  the  Irish   Bishops  and  people,  by  force 
of  their  own  weight,  consistency,  and  the  address  and 
power  of  their  English  ecclesiastical  agent,  commanded 
the  field  of  operations  ;  the  mind  of  a  few  laymen,  how- 
ever distinguished  their  position  and  adroit  their  tactics, 
could  not  dominate  the  English  Catholic  body ;  and  the 
forces    which    were   to   win    emancipation    were    being 
marshalled  on  a  broader  basis  of  operations,  with  a  new 
spirit  and  under  new  leaders.    But  the  work  still  went  on 
in   Parliament   with   some   peril   still   remaining   that  a 
schism   would  be  the  result  of  success.      In    1818,  and 
again  in  1819,  a  motion  was  made,  first  in  the  Commons 
and  then  in  the  Lords,  to  suppress  the  declaration  against 
Transubstantiation  and  the  Invocation  of  Saints  while 
leaving  the  oath  of  supremacy  in  force,  and  in   1825   a 
Bill  passed  the  Commons  to  be  thrown  out  in  the  Lords, 
on    which,    though    still    encumbered    with     restrictive 
clauses,    many    had    set    their    hearts.      But,  in    truth, 
there    never  had    been,  from   the  rise   of    the  Catholic 
Committee,  the   slightest   prospect   of    carrying    a   Bill 
through  both  chambers  unless   it  trammelled    the    free 
action  of  the  Catholic  Church,  and  had  the  consent  of  at 
least  the  ostensible  representatives  of  the  Catholic  body. 


140 

Parliament  was  often  nearly  beguiled  into  a  false  position, 
but,  with  its  eyes  open,  it  never  did  mean  to  relieve  a 
mere  section  of  the  Catholics  who  were  sacrificing  every- 
thing to  the  desire  of  controlling  their  ecclesiastical 
superiors  in  matters  of  Church  discipline  and  securing 
for  themselves  admission  to  Parliament. 

IV. 

The  committee's  work  of  securing  emancipation  at  the 
expense  of  a  schism  had  failed.  It  failed  through  John 
Milner,  than  whom  rarely  has  a  man  been  raised  up  with 
more  distinctly  marked  vocation.  The  purpose  of  his 
life,  as  we  see  him  now  in  the  page  of  history  or  living  in 
the  fruit  of  his  labours,  is  defined  with  the  distinctness 
of  a  figure  of  Fra  Angelico  ;  at  every  step  he  is  himself 
evidently  conscious  of  it,  and  the  result  everywhere  con- 
firms it.  In  the  order  of  God's  Providence  he  was  as 
essential  to  the  growth  of  the  Church  as  we  see  it  to-day 
as  was  the  mission  of  St.  Augustine,  the  death  of  St. 
Thomas  a  Becket,  the  blood  of  the  martyrs  to  the  Papal 
supremacy.  If  his  mouth  had  been  closed,  the  glorious 
page  of  the  living  book  of  God's  Church  which  now  lies 
open  had  been  closed  with  it,  and  a  prophet  might  have 
wept  because  none  was  found  worthy  to  break  the  seals 
and  reveal  its  glorious  characters. 

For  a  parallel  to  his  life  and  work  some,  with  en- 
couragement from  the  word  of  Rome,  have  reached  back 
to  the  early  Fathers  of  the  Church — to  the  times  when 
one  mind  armed  with  the  sword  of  the  spirit  and  kindled 
with  divine  fervour  had  struck  the  thronged  ranks  of  heresy 
and  rallied  the  wavering  to  the  Rock  of  Truth.  Perhaps, 
however,  there  is  an  event  of  our  own  days  which  offers 
a  better  parallel.  His  was  a  combat  fought  through  the 
Press  on  the  floor  of  Parliament,  and  such  in  its  great 
features  has  been  the  conflict  in  Germany,  until  the  per- 
secutor now  sees  his  projects  vain  and  negotiates  terms  of 
retreat  with  Rome.  But  in  Germany,  while  the  bishops 
were  gagged  by  law,  the  laity  had  orators  in  Parliament, 


who  with  unwearied  insistence  made  the  Catholic  claims 
penetrate  through  closed  ears  till  they  could  not  be 
ignored,  while  a  Catholic  Press,  springing  up  in  every 
town,  took  the  word  and  gave  it  voice  in  every  household. 
In  England  one  faithful  bishop,  with  nearly  all  the 
conspicuous  laity  openly  opposing  him  or  standing  aloof, 
sometimes  with  little  sometimes  with  no  help  from  those 
who  with  him  were  ordained  to  rule  the  Church  of  God, 
never  ceased  in  season  and  out  of  season,  by  night  and 
day,  to  use  his  pen  and  the  liberty  of  the  Press  for 
the  instruction  of  his  countrymen,  till  the  members  of  a 
Protestant  Parliament  took  up  his  word  of  justice  and 
supplied  the  default  of  his  own  brethren. 

Against  him,  moreover,  stood  one  of  versatile  mind 
and  readiest  pen,  claiming  the  Catholic  name  and  posing 
as  a  representative  of  the  Church,  who  watched  his  path 
and  tried  to  trip  him,  studied  his  fence  and  tried  to  stab 
him,  or  strike  him  from  behind,  commending  himself  to 
the  unsuspecting  by  a  pen  used  as  freely  in  defence  of 
the  Church's  doctrines  as  in  assailing  her  authority, 
pursued  him  to  the  end,  and  after  his  death  tried  to 
dishonour  him  by  ignoring  his  work.  But  Milrier,  as  the 
years  of  the  past  recede,  grows  in  outline  and  proportion 
as  in  very  truth  a  great  Bishop  who  in  his  day  pleased 
God  and  was  found  just,  so  that  of  his  time  was  none 
like  him ;  and  the  claimant  of  his  honours,  the  man  who 
was  ever  ready  to  contend  with  him  either  in  the  open 
arena  or  under  "  some  lurking  incognito,"  lithe  of  move- 
ment and  unassailable  as  a  cloud,  sinks  back  upon 
himself,  and  his  fame  rolls  up  like  a  scroll.  At  best  he 
is  a  foil  to  set  off  the  claims  of  the  truth  he  impugned. 
His  versatile  powers,  his  industry  without  respite,  his 
splendid  diplomacy,  his  high  place,  his  literary  fame, 
leave  no  mark  of  their  own  on  God's  Church.  Charles 
Butler  has  received  his  eternal  award,  but  his  place  in 
the  history  of  the  Catholic  Church  will  not  be  known 
till  his  days  have  so  far  receded  into  the  past  as  to  leave 
Milner  in  his  solitary  greatness. 


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In  the  contest  over  the  Relief  Bill  of  1791  he  first 
measured  swords  with  Milner,  who  was  then  priest  of 
Winchester  and  one  of  the  advisers  of  his  bishop.  In  the 
story  of  the  Committee's  failure  is  the  record  of  his  first 
overthrow.  It  was  he  who  had  drawn  up  the  Bill,  he  was 
the  pliant  but  withal  directing  spirit  of  the  junta  of 
gentlemen  who  through  long  and  generous  services  to  the 
Church  had  come  to  consider  it  as  in  some  sort  an 
appanage  to  their  title  and  family.  He  had  negotiated 
with  Pitt  and  the  statesmen  whose  voice  had  the  ear  of 
the  country  ;  he  had  submitted  his  draft  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Canterbury  who  had  graciously  suggested  some  altera- 
tion and  sent  him  away  with  his  blessing.  Why  should 
he  not  succeed  ? 

It  has  been  seen  how  first  in  one  Encyclical  and  again 
in  a  second  the  Vicars  Apostolic  had  condemned  the 
measure  for  its  uncatholic  oath  and  its  deliberate  pro- 
vision to  create  schism  in  the  Catholic  body.  Milner 
was  present  at  both  the  Synods  from  which  issued  the 
Encyclical  Letters,  as  Counsel  of  his  Bishop,  and  at  least 
in  the  second  he  was  the  moving  spirit.  From  the 
Bishops  he  received  the  commission  to  act  in  their  name, 
and  his  was  a  mind  to  receive  at  once  the  message  of  the 
hour  and  respond  to  its  needs.  His  policy  was  always 
the  same: — never  to  speak  with  ambiguity:  "It  is  well 
known  that  I  have  ever  professed  to  leave  the  direction 
of  our  political  matters  to  our  laity,  in  as  positive  a 
manner  as  I  have  claimed  the  direction  -and  management 
of  matters  appertaining  to  the  faith  and  discipline  of  the 
Catholic  Church  for  its  bishops  and  clergy  :"  "  My  policy 
in  matters  of  religion  has  been  to  have  no  policy  at 
all :" — never  to  compromise  with  principle  :  "  My  politics 
will  be  found  to  consist  in  nothing  else  but  a  steady, 
plain-dealing,  and  self-denying  adherence  to  the  religion 
which  I  profess,  and  of  which  I  am  a  guardian.  No  man 
living  can  show  that  I  have  or  ever  had  any  other 
politics jjfer-never  to  fear  the  consequence:  "God  knows, 
there  never  was  an  instant  of  my  life,  since  I  came  to  the 


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use  of  reason,  in  which  I  would  not  have  lost  my  life 
rather  than  be  concerned  in  giving  either  power  or 
influence  over  any  part  of  the  Catholic  Church  to  any 
uncatholic  person  or  persons  whomsoever :" — not  to  be 
moved  by  the  flattery  of  the  great :  "  In  vain  have  I  used 
every  means  in  my  power  to  induce  our  statesmen  to 
establish  a  foundation  for  their  claim  to  interfere  in  the 
internal  concerns  of  our  religion.  Many  have  taken 
great  notice  of  me,  but  none  of  them  have  ventured  to 
look  my  arguments  in  the  face  :" — to  be  unmoved  by  the 
reproaches  of  his  brethren : — "  Some  twenty  years  ago  I 
was  so  much  in  disgrace  with  a  part  of  those  of  my 
own  Communion  in  London  that  they  nicknamed  me 
Lord  George  Gordon,  and  would  not  speak  to  me  in  the 
streets  for  that  very  conduct  for  which  they  are  now 
obliged  to  me,  namely,  for  being  instrumental  in 
preserving  for  them  their  family  name  and  their  un- 
changeable creed."  He  refers  here  to  this  very  year 
1791.  He  hastened  to  London  to  meet  the  ministers 
face  to  face,  having  in  the  shape  of  a  handbill  a 
Statement  of  Facts  relating  to  the  contest  among  the 
Roman  Catholics  of  this  kingdom,  concerning  the  Bill  to 
be  introduced  into  Parliament  for  their  relief,  which  was 
nothing  more  than  certain  extracts  from  Charles  Butler's 
Blue  Books  with  counter  statements  of  his  own.  Burke 
introduced  him  to  Fox  and  Windham  ;  he  also  saw  Pitt 
and  Dundas,  Wilberforce  the  friend  of  the  slaves,  William 
Smith  the  leader  of  the  dissenters,  other  members,  and 
several  bishops.  We  have  seen  the  result.  He  managed 
to  have  his  handbill  distributed  to  the  members  as  they 
entered,  found  his  way  to  the  Strangers'  Gallery,  and  for 
want  of  room  sat  upon  the  floor,  saw  his  handbill  circu- 
late until  it  came  to  Pitt,  and  heard  Pitt  declare  they  had 
been  deceived,  and  that  either  the  other  party  of  Catholics 
must  be  relieved  or  the  Bill  not  >pass.  Chicanery  and 
brilliant  talents  had  proved  no  match  for  the  simplicity 
of  truth  directing  a  genius  for  action.  Another,  besides 
the  Secretary  of  the  Committee,  with  no  recommendation 


144 

but  the  position  his  faith  and  talents  had  acquired,  could 
pass  the  vestibule  of  Parliament  as  worthy  to  advise  its 
members,  could  hold  converse  with  ministers,  could  claim 
attention  from  them.  In  his  word  and  on  his  face  was 
written  sincerity,  and  he  proved  not  only  that  a  Catholic's 
loyalty  requires  no  ambiguous  words  to  express  it,  but 
that  the  best  way  to  deal  with  our  countrymen  is  to 
express  the  faith  we  hold  without  fear  and  without 
disguise.  The  subsequent  history  of  the  Bill  has  been 
told,  and  how  the  disappointment  of  the  Committee  issued 
in  their  taking  the  schismatical  title  of  the  Cisalpine 
Club. 

IV.  §2. 

The  Catholic  claims  were  not  raised  again  in  Parlia- 
ment till  1805.  Pitt,  who  had  brought  about  the  Union, 
and  stood  pledged  to  attempt  Catholic  Emancipation, 
resigned.  The  King  could  not  be  brought  to  see  how 
such  a  measure  was  consistent  with  his  Coronation  Oath, 
and  here  was  the  opportunity  for  Milner.  He  was 
speedily  in  the  press  with  The  Case  of  Conscience  Solved  ; 
or  the  Catholic  claims  proved  to  be  compatible  with  the 
Coronation  Oath,  and  he  had  his  reward.  The  King  read 
it,  and  confessed  that  his  scruples  were  removed,  and  it 
was  named  with  high  commendation  in  Parliament  and 
in  the  press. 

In  1805  theCatholicclaimswere  again  before  Parliament, 
and  Milner,  who  was  by  this  time  Bishop  of  the  Midland 
District,  heard  his  friend  Sir  John  Hippisley  argue  in 
their  favour  with  much  delight,  ascribing  little  importance 
to  his  sketch  of  the  restrictions  he  would  impose  on  the 
liberty  of  the  Church.  A  charitable  view  of  his  inimical 
brethren  would  have  hindered  him  from  forecasting  the 
alliance  to  be  instituted  between  them  and  Protestant 
statesmen  for  the  purpose  of  subjugating  the  free  action 
of  the  Church  to  a  mixed  Council  of  Catholic  and 
Protestant  laymen. 


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But  there  was  abroad  an  opinion  that  some  concession 
regarding  the  nomination  of  their  bishops  could  be  made 
by  Catholics  with  all  due  sanction.     Milner  having  been 
often  questioned  by  men  in  power  on  this  point  armed 
himself  with  a  judgment  from  Rome,  and  in  1807  took 
counsel  with  the  Irish  bishops,  towards  whom  he   held 
the  office  of  English  ecclesiastical  agent.     Pitt's  return  to 
office  in  1804  had  been  followed  by  the  resumption  of  the 
Catholic  debate  in  1805,  but  in  the  next  year,  while  still  in 
early  manhood,  he  died,  and  the  new  ministry,  in  which 
Percival   was   Chancellor   of    the    Exchequer,   dissolved 
Parliament   and   returned   from    the    elections    all    the 
stronger  under  the -cry,  "  the  Church  in  danger."     In  the 
year  following  they  had  to  meet  the  petition  from  Ireland, 
and   under  encouragement  from  the  Catholic  laity,  Mr. 
Ponsonby  and  Lord  Grenville  were   to   reinforce   it  by 
signifying   that   restrictions    upon    the    appointment    of 
bishops  would  not  be  refused  by  the  Catholics  as  a  counter- 
poise  to   their   own    civil    emancipation.      However,  as 
Milner  was  the  accredited  agent  of  the  Irish  bishops,  they 
were  referred  to  him,  and  in  an  interview  on  May  the  2ist, 
1808,  he  stated,  without  any  diplomacy  of  word  and  with- 
out that  caution   which  he  should  have  observed,   that 
under   all    due   restrictions    he   did    not  think  the  Irish 
bishops  would  deny  the  Crown  such  a  voice  as  would  just 
satisfy  it  of  the  loyality  of  the  candidate :  but  he  would 
write  to  consult  them  as  he  had  no  authority  to  speak. 
To  his  immense  mortification  these  political  friends  turned 
his   unsuspecting   word    into   a   piece   of  parliamentary 
tactics,  and  assured  the  House  under  his  authority  that 
such  concessions    would   be  made   by  the  Catholics  as 
would  virtually   make  the  King  head  of  their  Church. 
Milner   protested    and   had   his    Protest   in    print    next 
morning,  and  Mr.  Ponsonby  admitted  the  justice  of  it, 
but   he   learnt   that  a  statesman  in  the  hour  of  debate 
would  be  sure  to  make  what  political  capital  he  could  out 
of  such   an   admission,  however  qualified  ;  and  he  had 
much  to  do  to  convince  his  enemies  and  friends  of  his 


146 

consistency  while  retaining  his  former  place  as  the  un- 
compromising defender  of  the  Church's  liberty  and  a 
Catholic's  civil  rights. 

In  a  very  short  time  he  had  acknowledged  his  error  of 
judgment,  but  as  regards  his  own  words  he  believed  he 
had  not  passed  beyond  his  instructions  from  Rome  and 
the  sense  of  the  Irish  bishops.  The  interpretation,  how- 
ever, of  his  words  witnessed  at  once  what  would  be  the 
practical  interpretation  of  the  concession  the  words 
indicated.  Ministers  should  not  have  been  misled,  or 
could  not,  "  because,  as  he  said,  he  had  never  ceased  to 
make  in  print  and  by  word  of  mouth  one  declaration  :  I 
would  rather  lose  my  life  than  be  instrumental  in  giving 
power  and  influence  to  an  uncatholic  government  over  the 
Catholic  Church."  But  still  the  consequence  of  his  words, 
had  they  been  official,  would  have  gone  in  that  direction, 
and  as  they  were  not  official  it  was  imprudent  even  to 
seem  to  commit  his  Irish  brethren  to  such  consequence. 

From  Ireland  he  received  letters  which  at  once  con- 
vinced him  of  his  error.  He  admitted  it,  but  under  the 
sense  that  he  had  spoken  with  a  just  meaning,  he  wrote 
for  private  circulation  a  Letter  to  a  Parish  Priest,  in 
which  he  argued,  merely  as  "  a  mooting  essay,"  that  the 
position  he  had  taken  was  tenable  and  consistent  with 
the  due  liberty  of  the  Church.  But  however  tenable  in 
itself,  it  was,  as  he  knew  well  and  confessed,  utterly 
untenable  in  the  circumstances,  and  proved  to  be  so  by 
the  interpretation  put  upon  it ;  and  the  attitude  of  the 
Irish  Catholics,  both  clergy  and  laity,  towards  him  left 
him  no  room  for  doubt.  He  never  received  a  rejoinder 
comparable  in  power  to  an  Irish  Catholic  clergyman's 
Reply  to  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Milner's  Letter  to  a  Parish 
Priest.  It  bears  the  impress  of  one  whose  admiration 
and  affection  has  received  a  bitter  wound,  and  is  con- 
ceived in  so  high  a  tone  of  reverent  remonstrance  as 
must  have  left  Milner's  powers  of  rejoinder  all  unstrung. 
"  Think  not,  however,  my  lord,  that  your  former  friends 
entertain  the  slightest  suspicion  of  your  orthodoxy ;  a 


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reference  to  your  learned,  pious,  or  controversial  works 
was  superfluous ;  these  friends  were  and  are  convinced 
of  your  lordship's  inviolable  attachment  to  the  purity  of 
the  Catholic  faith ;  but  they  are  also  convinced  that  the 
rectitude  of  your  heart  has  not  secured  you  in  the 
present  case  from  a  most  eccentric  aberration.  A  mortal 
wound  may  be  inflicted  by  the  hand  of  him  who  would 
not  aim  the  blow  ;  a  man  may  act  wrong  and  intend 
right.  The  blow  once  effectively  struck,  it  is  of  little 
consequence  to  the  Catholics  of  Ireland  whether  it  was 
dealt  by  a  real  friend  or  by  an  insidious  enemy  ;  whether 
by  Dr.  Milner  or  by  Sir  John  Throckmorton  or 
T.  McKenna  or  Peter  Plymley;  with  this  difference, 
however,  that  the  writers  who  preceded  your  lordship  in 
this  disastrous  speculation  were  almost  totally  over- 
looked, or  comparatively  insignificant  on  the  same  list 
with  their  truly  learned  favourite,  Dr.  Milner." 

The  Et  tu  Brute  in  this  letter  is  too  poignant,  but 
Milner  had  no  difficulty  in  retractation  where  his  conscience 
admitted  it.  He  went  to  Ireland,  laid  his  words  and  conduct 
before  the  Bishops  in  Synod ;  and  they  passed  two  resolu- 
tions which  ever  after  were  the  bulwark  of  his  defence 
against  his  enemies.  They  declared  that  his  explanation 
was  satisfactory,  and  asked  him  to  continue  as  their  agent, 
but,  at  the  same  time,  resolved  that  it  was  inexpedient 
to  admit  any  change  in  the  existing  mode  of  electing 
bishops,  and  pledged  themselves  to  elect  none  but  men 
of  unimpeachable  loyalty  and  peaceable  conduct.  This 
last  was  the  true  answer  to  the  Government ;  it  had 
all  the  security  needed  in  the  principle  that  loyal  men, 
whose  loyalty  was  engaged  by  their  pledges  and  insured 
by  their  faith,  would  elect  none  but  those  whom  they 
knew  to  be  loyal 

IV.  §3. 

This  resolution  was  directly  in  the  path  of  the  English 
lay  leaders.  How  to  circumvent  it  became  the  question 
agitating  the  Catholic  Board  and  its  moving  spirit,  who, 


148 

having  very  cleverly  managed  to  devolve  on  another 
the  drudgery  of  Secretary,  was  working  in  secret.  The 
FIFTH  RESOLUTION  was  the  outcome,  so  worded  as  to 
disguise  the  proposals  underlying  it,  and  in  this  way  to 
commend  it,  if  possible,  to  the  credulous  Irish  bishops. 
But  the  diplomatic  craft  of  the  adversary  overreached 
itself.  It  was  folly  to  suppose  they  would  not  see  the 
veto  carefully  wrapped  up  in  its  length  of  ambiguous 
words,  or  remain  in  ignorance  of  its  origin.  It  was  folly 
for  English  Catholics  "  to  act  the  part  of  a  few  tame 
decoy  ducks  in  order  to  lead  an  immense  flock  of  wild 
ducks  into  a  snare  prepared  for  both  parties." 

Milner  by  this  time  was  so  powerful  in  his  representative 
character  of  what  was  best  and  truest  in  the  Catholic 
Church  of  England  and  Ireland  that  siege  must  be  laid  to 
him.  He  had  many  friends  in  the  Church  and  out, 
whose  doors  he  could  enter  as  a  gentleman  of  the  highest 
literary  fame,  a  Christian  politician  of  deep  wisdom  and 
patent  incorruptibility,  or  a  Catholic  Bishop  whose  life  and 
ways  were  the  mirror  of  a  good  conscience  sine  offensa. 
He  had  others  who  would  sit  down  at  table  with  him  in 
the  hope  of  inveigling  his  mind  into  some  consent  to 
their  dubious  acts,  but  would  close  their  doors  on  him,  if 
as  a  great  bishop  he  was  found  faithful.  On  January  the 
3  ist,  1810,  he  sat  down  at  Doran's  Hotel,  Dover  Street, 
at  apparently  a  hospitable  board,  but  for  an  hour  and 
more  the  company  pitted  themselves  against  him  to 
extract  his  consent  to  the  Fifth  Resolution,  and  at  length, 
having  stood  at  bay  all  this  time  guarding  the  sacred 
deposit  of  faith  within  his  keeping,  he  appealed  to  their 
sympathy  as  he  never  did  before  or  after  through  the 
sudden  eloquence  of  a  flood  of  tears. 

Early  that  day,  and  again  the  next  morning,  he  took 
care  to  have  a  common  understanding  with  the  other 
bishops  in  London.  With  them,  he  said,  he  would  give 
an  account  of  himself  as  an  English  bishop,  as  he  would 
also  in  his  office  of  agent  to  the  bishops  of  Ireland.  But 


149 

his  English  episcopal  brethren  were  true  when  he  stood 
by,  and  grievously  failed  when,  his  back  being  turned  or 
his  presence  removed,  they  in  their  turn  were  severally 
submitted  to  the  onset  he  had  withstood.  But  no  sooner 
had  the  Irish  people  learnt  the  nature  of  the  Fifth 
Resolution  of  February  the  ist,  than  from  one  end  of  the 
island  to  the  other  they  cried  out  that  the  English 
Catholics  had  betrayed  them.  To  these  they  had  com- 
mitted their  cause,  abandoning  their  own  meetings  on 
the  assurance  of  the  English  Board  that  no  measure 
should  be  adopted,  but  as  auxiliary  to  the  more  effectual 
exertions  of  the  Catholics  of  Ireland,  as  in  England  the 
Catholics,  it  was  added,  are  not  the  people.  Betrayed 
and  indignant  they  lost  no  time  in  resuming  their  inde- 
pendence. Within  two  days  of  the  presentation  of  the 
disastrous  resolution  to  Parliament  in  the  shape  of  the 
Catholic  Petition  the  bishops,  in  order  to  give  articulate 
force  to  the  general  meeting  to  follow,  met  in  synod  and 
passed  seventeen  resolutions  of  their  own,  covering  the 
whole  ground.  They  confirmed  their  resolutions  of 
September,  1808,  they  repudiate  all  wish  for  any  earthly 
consideration  from  the  state,  choosing  to  depend  upon 
their  flocks,  and,  last  of  all,  they  thank  Milner  for  his 
fidelity  and  apostolical  firmness. 

The  vain  and  foolish  attempt  of  the  English  Catholic 
Board  and  the  beguiled  bishops  to  have  the  last  resolu- 
tion rescinded  or  declared  not  authentic,  the  breach 
between  them  and  their  Irish  brethren,  the  pacific  over- 
tures made  from  Ireland  to  reduce  the  Vicars  Apostolic 
to  common  action  in  the  defence  of  the  integrity  of  the 
faith,  and  their  failure,  the  tardy  resolutions  of  the  Vicars 
Apostolic  in  1817,  must  be  passed  by.  The  immediate 
purpose  of  this  historical  view  is  its  limit ;  but  to  see 
Oscott  rise  as  the  centre  of  the  Catholic  Movement  it  is 
necessary  to  understand  Milner's  distinct  vocation  and 
work,  and  this  as  a  great  combat  for  principle  can  only  be 
seen  by  bringing  under  review  the  force  and  tactics  of  his 


adversaries  and  his  own  steady  vigilance  in  confronting 
and  disarming  them.  To  the  writer  he  seems  as  one 
standing  on  a  summit,  armed  with  his  own  single  glaive, 
"but  founded  upon  a  firm  rock,"  never  failing  night  or 
day  to  give  an  account  to  his  Master  what  was  the  peril 
of  the  night,  what  of  the  day,  until  the  millions  of  Irish 
Catholics  and  the  thousands  of  English  knew  their 
divinely  chosen  leader,  and  having  gathered  behind  him 
in  steady  ranks  and  well  ordered  array,  at  length,  when 
he  stood  aside,  rolled  down  the  slope  and  scattered  their 
enemies,  with  neither  standard  fallen  nor  escutcheon 
stained. 

IV.  §4. 

But  this  is  anticipating  the  hour  of  victory.  Whatever 
dread  spirit  of  prophecy  had  made  him  withstand  the 
ruinous  surrender  contained  in  the  Catholic  Resolution 
and  Petition  of  1810,  his  foreboding  was  more  than  verified 
in  1813.  The  crafty  industrious  spirit  of  the  Board  had 
been  in  council  with  statesmen  of  both  parties,  and  their 
joint  work  issued  in  the  schismatic  bill  of  that  year.  It 
was  well  known  that  the  clauses  of  relief  were  to  be 
presently  followed  by  the  Canning  clauses  of  enslavement 
and  other  restrictive  clauses  of  Castlereagh.  These  were 
postponed  as  a  matter  of  parliamentary  tactics  till  the 
last  stages  of  Committee  that  they  might  not  be  sifted. 
But  they  were  at  length  published. 

Not  merely  did  the  Crown  assume  a  restrictive  power  or 
veto  on  the  appointment  of  bishops,  but  a  complete 
control  also  of  all  correspondence  with  Rome ;  and, 
worse  still,  all  this  business  was  to  be  in  the  hands  of  a 
Commission,  consisting  of  a  Protestant  Secretary  of 
State,  some  Catholic  Peers  and  rich  Commoners,  some 
Protestant  Privy  Counsellors,  and,  by  way  of  giving  a 
zest  to  the  work,  one  Catholic  Bishop  to  represent  the 
authority  they  were  chosen  to  flout.  The  Bill  was  intro- 
duced on  April  the  3Oth,  and  Milner  was  at  his  post 


on  May  the  i8th,  as  soon  as  the  Canning  clauses  were  in 
print  To  his  request  whether  the  Vicar  Apostolic 
of  the  London  District,  who  had  succeeded  Dr. 
Douglass,  would  join  him  in  opposing  these  clauses, 
his  brother  prelate  begged  leave  to  state  that  he  did 
not  know  what  the  Canning  clauses  were.  These 
restrictions  were  printed  again  together  with  others 
proposed  by  Lord  Castlereagh,  and  on  Friday,  May  the 
2  ist,  again  Milner  made  the  same  request,  but  this  time 
without  receiving  any  reply  whatever.  He  thereupon 
drew  up  his  Brief  Memorial  for  circulation  among  the 
members,  pointing  out  in  a  few  paragraphs  how  opposed 
the  clauses  were  to  the  nature  of  the  Catholic  Church  and 
the  duty  of  its  members,  how  wholly  unnecessary  these 
were  to  secure  the  loyalty  of  its  bishops,  how  ready  these 
were  to  engage  under  any  'obligation  of  oath  or  penalty 
not  to  correspond  with  or  receive  correspondence  from 
Rome  on  any  political  subject  whatever,  predicting 
that  the  clauses,  if  carried,  would  inevitably  lead  to 
religious  persecution,  and  adding  that  he  was  speaking 
the  mind  of  the  Irish  bishops  who  were  to  meet 
on  the  26th  for  formal  discussion  of  the  Bill  and  its 
supplementary  provisions.  The  handbill  was  written, 
printed,  and  in  part  distributed  among  members  on  the 
same  day,  Friday,  May  the  2ist.  On  Saturday,  in  his 
anxiety  to  draw  from  the  prelates  in  London  a  clear 
judgment  on  the  Bill,  he  succeeded  in  learning  where 
he  might  meet  them.  They,  and  other  respectable  com- 
pany, would  be  together  on  Monday,  the  24th,  not  in 
Synod  to  discuss  the  Bill,  but,  strange  to  relate,  at  a 
meeting  of  the  New  Bible  Society.  Milner  attended, 
and  having  again  declined  to  have  any  part  in  the  society 
then  in  session,  stated  the  purpose  of  his  coming. 

He  waited  on  them  at  the  invitation  of  a  noble  lord 
there  present,  in  order  that  the  bishops  might  instruct  the 
lay  personages  assembled  what  was  their  judicial  sense  of 
the  Bill.  Not  being  able  to  raise  any  discussion,  he  went 


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more  directly  to  his  purpose,  and  read  from  a  paper  the 
following  questions  :  First,  is  there  anything  contrary  to 
the  integrity  or  safety  of  the  Catholic  doctrine  contained 
or  involved  in  the  Bill  now  before  Parliament  ?  Secondly, 
can  a  Catholic  bishop  or  layman  conscientiously  accept  of 
or  act  under  the  Commission  proposed  by  the  Bill? 
Thirdly,  is  not  an  English  Vicar  Apostolic  obliged  to 
speak  out  openly,  so  as  to  be  clearly  understood  by  the 
Catholic  public,  and  especially  by  the  legislature,  in 
opposition  to  the  Bill?  One  Vicar  Apostolic  replied 
that  he  did  not  like  the  Bill  for  the  reasons  contained  in 
the  Brief  Memorial  and  on  other  grounds,  but  that  in 
prudence  he  would  not  answer  the  questions ;  another  had 
been  trying  through  a  member  of  parliament  to  get  some 
alterations  made  in  the  process  of  appointing  bishops, 
but  had  not  succeeded.  And  all  were  agreed  that  it  was 
now  too  late  to  interfere  because  the  Bill  was  to  be  read  a 
third  time  that  very  day.  Upon  this,  Milner  declared  his 
protest :  The  Bill  contained  clauses  contrary  to  the 
integrity  and  safety  of  the  Catholic  religion  ;  —  No 
Catholic  bishop  or  layman  could  accept  a  place  on  the 
Commission  without  an  act  of  schism  ; — No  Catholic 
bishop  could  take  the  oath  for  a  commissioner  binding 
him  to  keep  the  secrets  of  the  King,  without  violating 
his  consecration  oath  to  keep  in  these  matters  the  secrets 
of  the  Pope,  And  he  added  that  if  any  two  of  the 
company  had  authority  to  go  down  and  inform  Mr. 
Grattan  that  the  Vicars  Apostolic  had  found  clauses  in 
the  Bill  incompatible  with  the  integrity  or  safety  of  the 
Catholic  religion,  it  would  even  then  be  stopped  in  its 
progress.  But  this,  he  says,  was  the  possible  issue  of  the 
debate  which  was  most  dreaded. 

Faith  works  wonders.  It  is  the  one  power  on  earth 
able  to  control  the  over-ruling  providence  of  God  which 
was  even  then  so  shaping  events  that  the  minds  of 
Protestants,  wrapped  in  whatsoever  prejudice,  should 
carry  out  its  purpose  when  Catholics  failed.  "When," 
says  Milner,  "  the  assembly  of  bishops  and  of  noble  and 


honourable  laymen  broke  up,  the  success  of  the  Bill,  on 
its  third  reading,  was  as  confidently  anticipated  to  take 
place  in  the  course  of  a  few  hours  as  the  rising  of  the  sun 
the  next  morning.  But  God  was  pleased  to  have  mercy 
on  the  remnant  of  His  Holy  religion  in  this  kingdom, 
and  particularly  on  the  individual  Catholics  who  were 
blindly  rushing  forward  to  the  brink  of  schism."  We 
have  seen  the  result.  Milner  was  a  sagitta  electa,  a 
chosen  arrow,  to  be  used  with  unerring  aim.  The  doors  of 
Parliament  were  to  be  opened  for  noble  peers  and  rich 
commoners  at  the  price  of  their  faith.  But  no  sooner 
had  the  House  resolved  itself  into  committee  than  the 
Speaker,  having  left  the  chair,  proposed  that  the  words 
"  to  sit  and  vote  in  either  House  of  Parliament "  should 
be  left  out,  and  on  a  division  carried  with  him  251  votes, 
as  against  247.  Mr.  Ponsonby  at  once  declared  that 
without  the  clause  the  Bill  was  not  worthy  either  of  the 
acceptance  of  the  Catholics  or  of  the  friends  of  concession, 
and  moved  that  the  chairman  should  leave  the  chair. 
Thus  did  providence  intervene !  The  measure  was  not 
seen  to  be  unworthy  because  of  an  overmastering  desire 
to  enter  the  councils  of  the  nation,  and  God  replied  by 
an  argumentum  ad  hominem — an  argument  suited  to  their 
capacity.  The  Bill  was  unworthy  from  the  beginning : 
they  at  last  pronounced  it  so  under  stress  of  this  argu- 
ment. 

The  resentment  of  the  disappointed  was  intense.  A 
Vicar  Apostolic  had  defeated  the  measure ;  none  had 
doubt  of  that.  Against  him  from  all  sides  was  directed 
the  clamour  of  reproach.  His  brethren  who  would  not 
share  in  the  glory,  had  some  part  to  bear  in  the  bitter 
outcry  of  vengeful  feelings.  The  priesthood  held  the 
laity  in  thraldom  !  One  only  bishop  had  been  able  to 
defeat  the  Cabinet,  the  Opposition,  the  Catholic  peers 
and  gentry  in  their  enlightened  efforts  to  confer  or  to 
acquire  Emancipation  !  They  could  not  see  then  that 
one  bishop,  supported  though  he  was  by  the  people  of 
Ireland  and  its  faithful  Hierarchy,  could  not  have  done 


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it  unless  other  powers  than  those  of  earth  had  been  with 
him.  Cadent  a  latere  tuo  mille,  et  decent  millia  a  dextris 
tuis.  Even  still,  someone  wearing  the  Catholic  name  has 
been  found  to  reproach  Milner  with  delaying  Emanci- 
pation when  he  was  thus  striking  down  the  demon  of 
enthralment.  But  civil  rights  need  not  have-  been  fore- 
gone one  hour  if  only  the  price  had  been  paid.  No 
Catholic  needed  Emancipation  except  in  so  far  as  he  was 
Catholic.  To  acquire  civil  rights  at  the  expense  of  faith 
did  not  need  the  blood  of  martyrs  nor  the  labours  of 
confessors  such  as  Milner ;  but  to  recover  civil  equality 
as  a  Catholic's  right  without  impairing  the  liberty  of  the 
Church  and  the  integrity  of  the  faith  in  one  tittle — hoc 
opus,  hie  labor.  "  After  all,  we  must  judge  for  ourselves 
in  the  present  case,"  said  Milner  to  his  political  friends, 
"  and  we  clearly  see  that  Emancipation  is  now  held  out 
to  us  upon  no  other  condition  than  that  upon  which  we 
could  at  all  times  have  emancipated  ourselves,  a  real 
sacrifice  of  our  religion." 

But  how  would  the  Board  or  its  busy  spirit  rid  them- 
selves of  their  passionate  resentment  ?  Here  was  a 
repetition  of  1791  after  twenty-two  years  of  labour,  and 
in  the  very  moment  of  victory.  They  stood  before  their 
Protestant  fellow  countrymen  disgracefully  cast  back  from 
the  breach  by  the  same  sovereign  hand.  Once  they  had 
tried  to  ignore  him  but  he  was  in  their  sight  when  most 
removed.  They  had  humbly  courted  Rome  to  keep  him- 
from  office  :  he  was  appointed  to  the  district  in  which 
they  had  obtained  their  chief  footing.  They  had  detached 
the  other  bishops  from  him  ;  he  strove  alone  and  left  his 
brethren  without  a  share  in  the  victory.  Either  he  or 
they  were  representative  of  the  Catholic  Church  in 
England.  But  though  they  had  the  right  discrimination 
in  their  hearts,  their  feelings  of  disappointment  were 
too  tumultuous  to  admit  it.  Representing  the  Catholic 
Cause  they  would  exclude  him  from  their  number. 
His  spirit  was  not  with  them,  but  his  name  was  on 
their  list,  and  they  dearly  wished  him  to  be  present 


while  they  expunged  it,  for  having  circulated,  as  they 
said,  his  Brief  Memorial and  thus  caused  their  fall.  He 
hesitated  to  attend  till  two  of  their  number,  who  were  his 
friends,  counselled  him  to  avoid  the  blow  by  resigning. 
It  was  the  one  word  needed  to  determine  his  mind  :  to 
have  consented  would  have  been  to  disavow  his  cause, 
and  he  was  therefore  not  missing  at  the  great  Meeting 
called  "the  Milner-baiting "  held  on  the  29th  of  May. 
Possessing  his  soul  in  patience  he  listened  to  their 
harangues,  heard  his  sentence  of  exclusion,  and  then 
calmly  drew  from  his  pocket  a  Protest,  and  read  aloud  ; 
his  Brief  Memorial  was  published,  not  on  behalf  of  the 
sixty-five  persons  present,  nor  of  their  constituents  ;  they 
did  not  represent  any  other  Catholics  than  themselves. 
But  he  had  spoken  and  acted  on  behalf  of  thirty  bishops 
and  more  than  five  million  Catholics,  whose  religious 
business  he  was  authorised  to  transact  and  who  were 
involved  in  the  Bill.  But  accepting  his  sentence  of 
exclusion  he  moved  to  the  door,  and  turning  round  to 
confront  his  already  discomfited  assailants,  he  cut  them 
to  the  quick  with  the  calm  word  of  apostolic  patience : 
"  I  hope  you  will  not  turn  me  out  of  the  Catholic  Church 
nor  shut  me  out  of  the  kingdom  of  heaven."  The  Catholic 
Board  never  recovered  from  their  discomfiture.  The 
Catholics  of  Ireland  had  long  known,  the  Catholics  of 
England  knew  henceforth,  the  prophet  who  had  been  sent 
to  lead  them  "  out  of  the  house  of  bondage." 

But  this  section  must  hasten  to  a  conclusion.  How  the 
crafty  Secretary  of  the  Board  sought  redress  in  Rome  ; 
how  he  used  the  opportunity  of  the  Pope's  absence  ;  how 
he  so  prevailed  over  an  old  and  venerable  prelate,  who 
was  still  in  some  authority,  so  as  to  extract  an  approval 
of  the  Bill,  drawing  terrible  pictures  of  the  bitter  doom 
which  otherwise  awaited  man,  woman,  and  child  of  the 
Catholic  body  in  the  United  Kingdom,  who  were  all  to 
be  shipped  into  exile  ;  how  Milner,  straight  as  an  arrow, 
crossed  the  channel  in  an  open  boat,  passed  through  the 
victorious  armies  of  the  allies,  and  arrived  in  Rome  a  few 


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days  after  the  successor  of  Peter,  from  whom  also  "  the 
chains  had  fallen  off ; "  how  he  found  the  prelate  already 
under  reprimand  for  his  unauthorised  action,  and  how, 
having  drawn  up  a  full  memorial  of  the  state  of  Catholic 
affairs  in  England,  he  established  "his  cause,  and  returned 
home,  confirmed  by  the  Bishop  of  Bishops  as  that  only 
one  of  his  brethren  in  England  who  had  fought  the  good 
fight, — to  reveal  the  source  of  his  strength  by  establishing, 
under  the  authority  of  Pius  VII.,  the  Confraternity  of  the 
Sacred  Heart  in  its  first  Shrine  of  Oscott ;  this  must  be 
taken  as  said. 

By  this  time  the  Catholics  of  England  had  been 
educated,  and  thousands  in  Liverpool,  Manchester, 
Birmingham,  and  even  in  London,  had  learnt  to  express 
their  own  mind  to  Parliament,  to  avow  their  true  leader, 
and  disown  those  who  would  barter  faith  for  civil  gain. 
Milner's  policy  of  arriving  at  emancipation  was  that  of 
waiting  for  the  inevitable  hour,  and  promoting  it  in  order 
and  detail.  Against  it  was  the  policy  of  the  lay  com- 
mittee, one  of  eager  haste  and  sudden  consummation. 
They  subordinated  all  other  details  to  their  crowning 
ambition  to  enter  the  Houses  of  Parliament,  which,  as 
being  the  crown  of  all  other  rights  and  perhaps  the  least 
serviceable,  occupied  a  distant  place  in  the  vista  of  Milner's 
mind.  To  him,  a  man  of  clear  view,  direct  and  practical 
method,  and  a  matchless  power  of  seizing  the  opportunity 
of  the  hour,  emancipation  presented  itself  first  as  a  means 
of  giving  free  course  to  the  action  of  the  Church,  next  of 
securing  the  political  rights  of  the  majority,  thirdly,  of 
obtaining  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  peers  and  landed 
gentry.  As  to  civil  rights,  he  has  left  on  record  his 
judgment  that  the  Catholic  Board,  as  claiming  to  repre- 
sent the  whole  body,  should  have  done  its  business  as  well 
as  their  own  ;  that  they  should  have  laboured  to  open  the 
ways  of  industry  to  their  brethren  in  the  middle  and 
lower  classes  ;  that  they  should  not,  for  instance,  have 
refused  to  promote  the  elective  franchise  in  order  to 
pursue  their  own  ends  ;  so  clear,  indeed,  was  his  intuition 


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of  the  consequence  to  them  of  their  selfish  policy  that, 
in  1820,  he  made  an  evident  prophecy.  "Nothing  is 
wanting  but  a  man  of  commanding  abilities  to  snatch  the 
helm  of  our  affairs  from  the  hands  that  at  present  guide 
it,  and  to  gain  a  Bill  for  the  relief  of  the  whole  body  to 
the  disgrace  of  those  personages  who  have  an  hereditary 
claim  to  veneration."  Such  a  man  was  found  in 
O'Connel,  and  it  is  worthy  of  note  that  it  was  the  elective 
franchise  possessed  by  the  forty-shilling  freeholders  of 
county  Clare  that  sent  him  to  knock  imperiously  for 
entrance  at  the  doors  of  Parliament,  and  that  the  glorious 
Act  of  Emancipation  was  marred  by  a  preliminary 
measure  depriving  the  Catholics  of  Ireland  of  the  fran- 
chise so  successfully  used. 

V. 

And  now,  at  last,  the  field  is  free,  and  the  matter  at 
hand  to  present  to  view  Oscott  in  its  mission  and  in 
its  work. 

Its  claim  to  be  the  centre  of  the  Catholic  movement 
would  appear  merely  adventitious,  if  it  had  not  its  roots 
deep  in  this  period  of  uprooting  and  planting.  But  in 
exhibiting  this,  its  proper  glory,  there  is  no  comparison 
intended  with  other  colleges.  It  is  a  just  appeal  to  his- 
torical facts  and  their  public  development ;  and  towards 
this  development  of  Oscott  these  otHers  have  all  con- 
tributed. The  great  ally  of  Milner  in  his  conflict  with 
the  Committee,  whose  pen  was  a  flail  under  which  they 
winced  and  uttered  loud  complaints,  was  the  Reverend 
Charles  Plowden,  of  Stonyhurst.  The  first  of  English 
historians,  whom  as  a  youth  Milner  sent  from  Winchester 
to  Douay,  and  whose  work,  though  tinged  with  the 
Cisalpine  spirit,  has  wrought  so  powerfully  on  the  English 
mind,  in  extension  of  his  work,  was  John  Lingard  of 
Ushaw.  It  was  Gregory  Stapleton,  of  Old  Hall,  who 
consented  to  prepare  the  way  for  Milner  in  the  Midland 
District,  and  unobtrusively  accomplished  his  work  in 


drawing  the  clergy  to  unity.  And  it  was  the  Benedictine 
Prior  of  Acton  Burnell,  to  whose  friendship  and  counsel 
Milner  flew  for  comfort  when  the  Brief  from  Rome  sud- 
denly set  before  his  mind  what  difficulties  his  singleness 
of  intention  and  intrepidity  would  of  a  certainty  encounter. 
To  each  college  its  own  praise,  and  may  their  tributary 
streams  soon  combine  in  one  current,  which  shall  bear  us 
to  the  haven  of  our  hopes — a  Catholic  University  ! 

There  may  be  a  disposition  in  some  to  speak  with 
hesitation  of  the  rise  of  Oscott  and  its  relation  to  the 
Catholic  Committee,  imbued  as  they  were  with  the  spirit 
of  schism.  But  to  yield  to  any  such  fear  would  be 
unworthy  of  the  College,  an  injustice  to  Milner,  and  a 
hindrance  to  a  conception  of  our  special  work,  which  is 
the  source  of  progress. 

The  years  1793  and  1794  are  the  years  of  Oscott's 
origin.  When  Louis  XVI.  had  fallen  under  the  guillo- 
tine, when  the  French  Ambassador  had  been  dismissed 
from  London,  and  the  red-handed  Republic  had  declared 
war  against  England,  while  a  thousand  of  the  French 
clergy  were  gathering  round  the  new  Gothic  Chapel  of 
Winchester  to  hear  its  priest,  John  Milner,  declare  the 
virtues  of  their  murdered  King,  the  conception  of  a  new 
Catholic  college  was  rising  in  the  minds  of  men,  both 
clergy  and  laity,  and  almost  immediately  the  name  of 
Oscott  was  on  the  lips  as  the  spot  whereon  their  concep- 
tions might  find  a  local  habitation  and  a  name.  The 
Catholic  body  was  inspirited  by  the  recent  measures  of 
Relief,  the  Catholic  foundations  abroad  were  inevitably 
to  be  uptorn,  the  ages  of  persecution  were  drawing  to  a 
close,  why  should  not  Catholics  in  England  have  a 
foundation  of  their  own  ?  This  was  a  just  argument  for 
action,  and  the  Catholic  gentlemen  who  in  April,  1792, 
formed  themselves  into  the  Cisalpine  Club  with  distinctly 
avowed  schismatical  intentions,  were  shortly  projecting 
a  school  for  the  laity,  and  the  clergymen  who  had  been 
their  allies  in  the  Midland  District  were  projecting  a 


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seminary.  It  is  from  the  correspondence  of  the  Rev. 
Joseph  Berington,  who  had  just  removed  from  Oscott  to 
Buckland,  with  the  Rev.  John  Kirk,  of  Lichfield,  both  of 
"  the  Staffordshire  clergy,"  that  we  arrive  at  our  earliest 
knowledge  of  the  College.  In  the  early  autumn  of  1793 
the  gentlemen  had  selected  their  president,  and  were 
waiting  for  a  plan  from  him.  Later  in  the  same  autumn 
the  Rev.  John  Kirk  had  suggested  a  seminary  for  the 
home  education  of  the  clergy,  and  we  find  Berington 
agreeing  with  him,  but  having  at  first  some  misgiving  that 
Dr.  Talbot,  the  Vicar  Apostolic,  might  not  see  his  way 
to  consent.  Within  a  few  weeks  Berington  did  not  think 
the  Bishop  was  in  any  way  averse  to  it,  and  would  be 
happy  to  see  Oscott  converted  to  that  purpose,  and 
Dr.  Bew  appointed.  Dr.  Bew  was  also  the  nominee  of 
the  gentlemen,  and,  if  other  reasons  were  absent,  this 
would  suggest  that  the  two  ideas  of  the  home  education 
of  the  laity  and  of  the  clergy  were  moving  in  the  same 
minds,  and  that  Oscott  as  a  seminary,  though  later  in 
the  field,  was  distancing  the  competitive  idea. 

The  truth  is  the  gentlemen  were  sadly  weighted  by 
their  schismatical  views  and  operations,  and  that  sounder 
minds  were  hindering  their  progress.  It  was  not  merely 
or  principally  the  unsuitability  of  Oscott  as  a  site  which 
hampered  them.  We  learn  from  Berington  that  Dr. 
Douglass  had  been  brought  into  council  with  the  gentle- 
men and  was  holding  them  back,  and  it  would  be 
affectation  to  hesitate  about  the  cause.  My  Lord  Bishop 
of  Centuriae  had  lately  been  named  with  mock  solemnity 
at  the  head  of  a  schismatical  Protest,  contesting,  re- 
pudiating, flouting  his  episcopal  authority  ;  and  it  could 
hardly  have  been  expected  that  he  would  approve,  with 
his  eyes  open,  of  the  formation  of  a  college  to  generate 
such  a  spirit.  And  there  was  one  at  hand  who  certainly 
would  keep  his  eyes  open — "  his  old  friend  and  tried 
counsellor,"  John  Milner.  The  issue  is  at  any  rate  clear, 
the  seminary  of  Oscott  had  been  determined  upon,  and 
was  already  instituted  upon  its  own  plan,  while  the 


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gentlemen's  school  was  still  hanging,  if  not  undefined  as 
a  project,  at  all  events  not  projected  into  a  definite 
locality.  But  whatever  objection  there  might  have  been 
against  a  school  under  the  independent  management  of 
the  gentlemen,  was  not  maintained  against  their  wish  to 
combine  with  the  existing  seminary.  Dr.  Talbot  con- 
sented and  the  seminary,  which  was  already  instituted  in 
February,  and  had  received  its  first  church  student  in  May, 
became  a  College,  and  had  received  its  first  lay  student  in 
August.  By  November  the  complete  institution  was 
fully  on  its  career,  but  under  a  dual  government,  which 
had  in  it  the  element  of  its  own  dissolution.  There  was 
of  course  no  element  of  schism  admitted  in  its  organisa- 
tion as  regards  the  matters  of  faith,  but  as  regards  the 
internal  unity  and  growth  of  the  College  unquestionably 
there  was.  The  lay  gentlemen  were  to  have  the  control 
of  the  lay  students,  the  bishop  of  the  church  students, 
and  the  same  president  was  to  satisfy  both  masters,  differ 
as  they  might.  Such  a  scheme  could  be  worked  only 
when  one  influence  yielded  to  the  other,  and  the  gentle 
spirit  of  Dr.  Talbot,  the  sweet  temper  of  Dr.  Charles 
Berington,  and  the  tact  of  Dr.  Bew  enabled  the  gentle- 
men to  get  on  fairly  well  till  1803.  There  can  be  little 
question  that  with  Dr.  Bew  the  College  as  a  lay  school 
was  more  in  mind  than  the  College  as  a  seminary.  From 
the  gentlemen  came  the  subscriptions,  in  the  first  place, 
and  they  were  his  governors  ;  and  though  he  was  sound 
in  the  faith  and  used  his  influence  as  Vicar  General  to 
induce  his  Bishop  to  submit  to  the  Holy  See,  he  so  far 
supported  the  Cisalpines  as  to  claim,  against  the  senior 
Vicar  Apostolic,  to  be  the  source  of  spiritual  jurisdiction 
in  the  District  during  the  vacancy  from  1798  to  1800. 
In  accounting  for  his  conduct  it  must  be  remembered  that 
the  gentlemen,  who  were  the  moving  spirits  of  the 
Cisalpine  Club  and  were  busily  occupied  in  fomenting 
dissension  in  this  district,  were  at  this  time  the  only 
Governors  of  the  College.  And  they  were  being  driven 
to  desperation  by  the  sense  that  Milner  was  moving 


towards  their  stronghold.  His  coming  presence  was 
casting  its  shadow  before:  Rome  had  already  named  him 
as  the  man  for  the  District,  and  Dr.  Stapleton  was  only 
appointed  with  the  understanding  that  he  might  with- 
draw to  quieter  abodes  when  he  had  smoothed  the  way 
for  another.  Evidently  it  was  a  troublous  time  for 
Oscott. 

Much  work  had,  however,  been  done  before  1803, 
There  were  already  in  the  College,  and  had  been  there 
for  years,  youths  who  were  afterwards  to  be  patterns  in 
their  different  vocations,  and  conspicuous  among  them 
such  honourable  names  as  Charles  Langdale,  Francis 
Martyn,  and  Robert  Richmond.  An  overruling  Providence 
had  given  increase  to  what  had  been  planted  by  the 
Catholic  clergy  and  laity  in  the  quiet  hollow  under  the 
Coldfield,  and  had  turned  the  best  elements  in  the  leaders 
of  the  Catholic  laity  to  very  good  account.  The  worst 
of  us  are  not  all  bad,  and  what  is  good  in  us  God  will  use 
for  the  salvation  of  souls  if  there  is  aught  of  good-will. 
Bad  and  miserable  as  was  the  sense  which  undervalued 
the  work  of  our  colleges  abroad — forgot  their  heroism 
and  sneered  at  their  fruits — it  was  still  a  good  thing  to 
have  the  youth  of  England  educated  at  home.  Bad  as 
was  the  spirit  which  strove  through  words  and  acts  of 
schism  to  destroy  the  influence  of  the  Vicars  Apostolic, 
it  was  a  right  thing  to  desire  the  establishment  of  a 
hierarchy  with  ordinary  powers.  In  other  words  it  is  a 
good  thing  to  be  able  to  substitute  normal  action  for 
temporary  expedients,  and  under  God's  Providence  the 
laity  in  their  generosity  and  enthusiasm  were  serving 
Him  as  instruments  to  bring  about  this  result. 

The  work  at  Oscott  was  good,  but  in  its  government 
was  the  germ  of  dissolution.  This  became  evident  when 
a  bishop  appeared  in  the  district  whose  genius  and  study, 
whose  faith  and  sanctity,  whose  administrative  faculty 
and  industry,  whose  indomitable  spirit  and  keen 
perception  of  his  adversaries'  methods,  ordained  him 


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ut  evellat  et  destruat,  ut  cedificet  et  plantet.  In  Oscott  he 
came  upon  some  evidences  of  another  spirit  than  his  own. 
The  sanctuary  we  learn  was  forthwith  reserved  for  the 
ministers  of  the  altar,  and  in  other  points  we  see  him 
acting  in  his  own  domain  of  Bishop  as  a  reformer. 

Dr.  Bew  could  no  longer  maintain  his  ambiguous  place  ; 
he  could  not  serve  two  masters ;  the  sense  of  stability  was 
gone  and  the  College  could  not  thrive.  By  1808  it  was 
clear  that  the  dual  government  must  cease  ;  the  College 
had  been  losing  ground  till  it  was  not  paying  its  way. 
The  laity  were  in  a  false  position  and  must  either 
surrender  their  power,  or  surrender  their  spirit,  and  the 
latter  course  required  years  of  education  through  bitter 
disappointments  to  make  it  possible.  They  did  therefore 
what  might  have  been  anticipated  :  they  gave  over  the 
College  to  Milner,  who  was  already  part  owner,  and 
expressed  their  sense  of  defeat  by  leaving  upon  it 
the  encumbrance  of  a  wretched  £600.  To  him  the 
debt  was  a  real  burden  ;  to  them  it  was  a  ready 
means  of  exhibiting  their  sullen  disappointment. 
Generous  as  they  were,  they  would  not  help  the 
commander  of  the  opposite  camp  in  the  very  home 
from  which  they  had  been  ousted.  He  had  captured  the 
stronghold  ;  he  could  hardly  expect  them  to  make  good 
the  ruins  of  the  siege.  But  meanwhile  they  would 
willingly  find  even  £1,000  for  the  director  of  their  opera- 
tions against  him.  Ah,  well !  God's  ways  are  high  ;  <f  He 
reaches  from  end  to  end  mightily,  and  disposes  all  things 
sweetly  ; "  and  we  are  all  of  us  imperfect  at  the  best. 
The  wonder  is  that  with  things  so  frail,  and  minds  so 
various,  and  antagonisms  so  acute,  He  should  at  length 
build  up  an  edifice  whose  unity  embraces  the  good  of  all. 

Before  Milner  was  in  possession,  when  he  was  only 
governor  of  Oscott  as  a  seminary,  he  had  reaped  the 
fruit  of  its  more  sacred  labour.  From  it  had  gone  forth, 
and  in  unspeakable  joy  he  had  ordained,  the  first  child  of 
its  sacerdotal  womb,  the  first  priest  who  had  been  reared 
to  the  priesthood  round  the  altar  of  an  English  sanctuary, 


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since  the  dread  times  of  Elizabeth.  But  not  till  it  was 
called  St.  Mary's,  not  till  the  blessed  morn  of  the  Virgin 
Mother's  Assumption  in  1808,  was  it  clothed  in  the 
mantle,  was  it  informed  with  the  spirit,  which  are  its 
beauty  and  strength.  Like  all  men  strong  in  God, 
Milner  was  childlike,  and  as  a  child's  his  devotion  was 
tender.  He  was  never  more  pleased  than  to  hear  our 
Lady's  Litany  ;  if,  in  the  houses  of  the  great,  he  was 
delighted  with  the  voice  of  the  chief  songstress  of  her 
day,  he  must  have  her  sing  the  Litany,  and  if  none  other 
would  or  could,  he  would,  as  he  did,  sing  Ora  pro  nobis. 
As  he  emblazoned  that  name  on  the  escutcheon  of  his 
College,  so  he  breathed  into  it  from  his  own  spirit  a 
tender  chivalrous  devotion  to  Mary,  which  is  at  once  the 
symbol  of  its  origin,  the  harbinger  of  its  glory,  and  the 
source  of  its  inexhaustible  fecundity. 

VI. 

None  was  ever  more  fitted  to  imbue  a  college  with  a 
right  spirit  and  endow  it  with  hope  and  with  power  in 
days  of  conflict  than  was  Milner.  He  had  already 
influenced  its  fortunes.  For  five  years  he  had  been  its 
Bishop.  When  he  entered  upon  the  care  of  the  vast 
Midland  District  and  first  became  its  Bishop,  his  fame 
was  already  high  and  broad  within  the  Church  and 
without,  among  his  friends  and  before  his  enemies ;  his 
name  and  his  works  had  passed  within  the  walls  of 
the  College,  and  had  exercised  that  influence  which 
is  distinctive  of  his  life — a  bracing  influence  which 
disciplines  as  it  enlarges,  and  makes  fearless  by 
making  simple  and  lowly.  Even  at  its  first  founda- 
tion his  mind  plainly  had  some  part  in  determining 
its  character.  The  opposition  to  the  scheme  of  the 
gentlemen  for  a  separate  school  was  undoubtedly 
reinforced  by  Milner,  if  it  did  not  centre  in  him  ;  and 
that  they  should  have  had  to  wait  until  the  seminary  was 
instituted,  and  should  then  have  been  glad  to  combine 
their  plan  with  the  bishop's  already  established  is,  in  all 


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probability,  another  instance  of  what  had  fallen  out  three 
years  before,  when  the  same  gentlemen  planned  a 
disastrous  scheme  for  the  relief  of  Catholics,  and  found 
it  reshaped,  rectified,  and  carried  into  execution,  by  the 
genius  and  promptitude  of  Milner. 

From  whatever  point  of  view  the  College  is  regarded, 
whatsoever  should  be  its  constituent  qualities,  the  type  of 
a  Founder  is  seen  in  Milner.  Would  you  have  its  alumni 
earn  the  bright  hour  of  recreation  by  concentered  applica- 
tion of  all  the  faculties  upon  their  allotted  task  ? — He  was 
incessant  in  filling  his  mind  and  developing  his  faculties 
so  as  to  meet  with  instant  and  full  response  the  demand 
unremittingly  made  upon  the  Catholic  Body  to  render  an 
account  of  itself.  Nor  was  he  content  to  appropriate  the 
studies  of  others  ;  he  went  to  the  originals  and  a  big  tome 
was  his  delight.  Would  you  have  the  students  endowed 
with  that  quality  which  is  the  mark  of  genius  as  it 
is  of  true  scholarship  —  the  pursuit  of  high  ideals 
with  patient  attention  to  minute  details? — He  had 
acquired  for  himself,  by  delicate  observation  and  accurate 
study,  the  title  of  Fellow  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries 
before  either  of  his  greater  works  had  appeared,  or  his 
first  battle  with  the  Committee  had  begun.  Would  you 
have  the  youth  committed  to  your  training  armed  for 
public  life,  capable  of  discrimination,  prompt  in  action, 
sound  of  principle  and  fearless  of  consequences  ?  His 
unique  career  was  that  of  a  great  Churchman  who 
finds  himself  thrust  into  the  work  of  a  public  politician 
because  he  must  defend  the  bulwarks  where  faith  and 
public  policy  meet.  Would  you  have  their  minds  Catholic 
not  merely  in  faith,  but  in  the  unity  and  universality  of 
their  survey  of  all  times  and  events,  using  the  standpoint 
which  only  the  Catholic  Church  provides  ;  not  subordina- 
ting fact  to  theory,  but  carefully,  truthfully,  and  boldly 
embracing  all  facts  as  knowing  that  Gcd's  work  and  His 
wisdom  is  to  be  seen  in  and  through  them  all  ?  He  had 
studied  the  science  of  historic  fact,  and  faithfully  and 
fearlessly  illustrated  the  history  of  his  country,  when 


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Lingard's  work  was  still  in  the  future.  In  this  he  was 
the  pioneer  of  the  appeal  to  antiquity,  which  inspired 
Lingard,  and  Newman,  and  Wiseman,  and  Northcote  to 
climb  the  top  of  the  huge  lie  that  made  the  Reformation 
the  bar  to  human  vision  and  logical  thought,  and  having 
viewed  only  to  possess  the  captivating  realms  of  truth 
beyond,  find  the  Church  the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and 
for  ever.  Would  you  have  the  students  for  the  sanctuary 
sound  in  all  knowledge,  simple  as  children  in  the  accept- 
ance of  the  Rule  of  Faith,  but  bringing  to  its  interpretation 
a  wide  knowledge  of  the  Fathers,  constant  study  of 
scripture,  profound  application  to  the  objective  philosophy 
of  history  ?  His  History  of  Winchester,  his  Letters  to 
a  Prebendary,  his  End  of  Religious  Controversy,  declare 
him  the  pattern  worthy  of  all  imitation.  Would  you 
have  them  sound  in  their  conception  of  the  spiritual 
life,  and  in  the  midst  of  public  ministerial  duty  faithful  to 
the  cultivation  of  their  own  souls  ?  It  was  this  very  fidelity 
in  Milner  that  gave  him  his  keen  vision,  his  indestructible 
force,  his  unerring  application  of  his  faculties  to  the  wants 
of  his  day.  Would  you  have  them  like  all  strong  men  in 
God's  church,  so  tender  that  the  poor  shall  run  after 
them,  the  criminal  turn  to  them  for  compassion,  the 
feebler  sex  who  have  debarred  themselves  from  human 
protection  to  follow  the  Lamb  look  to  them  as  their  wall 
of  defence  ?  In  his  life  the  touching  example  is  every- 
where found.  He  was  a  wonderfully  complete  man,  by 
nature  and  grace  ;  and  if  it  be  true  that  he  did  not  stay 
to  polish  his  style,  or  trim  his  words,  or  adopt  the  silken 
manners  that  happily  disguise  so  much,  it  must  be 
answered  that  he  had  nothing  to  disguise,  that  he  was  a 
soldier  always  in  combat,  with  the  duty  thrust  upon  him 
of  stripping  sheep's  clothing  from  wolves,  and  steadying 
the  timid  till  the  strangely  inconsequent  voice  made  them 
laugh  at  the  lion's  mane.  He  was  the  simplest  of  men, 
made  lovable  by  humility,  terrible  only  to  those  who 
would  use  talent  and  place  to  mislead  the  simple  and 
confiding.  The  Catholic  Church  in  England,  by  God's 


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providence,  concentered  all  its  hopes  on  him,  and  he  was 
perforce  driven  to  speak  of  himself,  but  he  loved  to  call 
himself  the  writer  to  evade  his  personality.  "  The  writer," 
he  says  in  words  full  of  meaning,  "  has  spared  the  feelings 
and  character  of  his  adversaries  to  the  best  of  his  power, 
with  the  exception  of  one  domestic  enemy  of  the  Church, 
whom  he  despairs  of  reclaiming,  and  therefore  thinks  it 
his  duty  to  disarm." 

I  love  to  think  of  him  walking  up  and  down  the  aisles 
of  the  Cathedral  under  whose  shadow  by  Providence  his 
lot  was  cast,  dropping  the  beads  from  his  fingers  as  he 
thought  of  the  days  gone  by  and  forecast  the  glory  of 
the  second  spring,  reading  in  the  majestic  fane  the  long 
story  of  his  country's  glory,  thinking  that  under  such  a 
shelter  of  co-ordinate  beauty  even  Protestantism  ought 
to  keep  some  partial  hold  upon  the  truths  of  faith, 
growing  indignant  with  Bishop  Hoadley  as  unworthy  in 
his  latitudinarianism  even  of  the  name  of  an  Anglican 
Bishop,  conceiving  the  Chapel  of  St.  Peter  which  with 
such  loving  appreciation  of  every  detail  he  made  to  rise 
beside  the  great  Cathedral  in  that  long-forgotten  medi- 
aeval style,  listening  to  the  whispers  of  the  Past  as  they 
breathed  along  the  pillared  avenues  and  made  him  throb 
with  the  echo  of  all  the  ages  of  our  Church's  glory,  even 
as  the  lapping  of  the  wave  upon  the  shore  makes  the 
heart  tremble  with  the  thunder  of  a  hundred  seas. 

Possibly  he  had  in  dim  outline  a  prophetic  vision, 
not  merely  of  the  College  rising  on  the  "  bleak 
mount,"  but  of  the  solemn  line  of  a  great  procession 
of  all  orders  and  ranks  of  the  Church's  ministry, 
each  in  his  normal  place  and  power,  culminating 
in  a  mitred  Archbishop  who  was  wearing  the  Roman 
purple  made  ruddy  in  the  Blood  of  the  Lamb, — 
who  himself  had  known  how  to  make  the  voice  of  the 
Church  sound  upon  his  lips  with  such  commanding  power 
that  the  camp  of  the  enemy  was  moved  as  by  an  earth- 
quake, and  knew  again  how  to  appeal  to  their  calmer 
sense  and  half  convince  them  of  the  truth  of  his  mission. 


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And  presently  they  were  seated  and  the  voice  of  Christ 
was  heard  sounding  over  the  waters,  and  they  looked  up 
and  lo !  high  over  head  in  the  light  of  that  blessed  morn 
a  frail  figure,  but  strangely  enthralling  face,  leading  cap- 
tive every  eye,  scanning  the  scene  with  a  prophet's  gaze, 
and  looking  as  one  comforted.  He  too  had  walked  the 
aisles  of  the  fanes  of  the  ancient  faith,  and  had  conceived 
that  the  Church  which  held  them  should  be  beautiful  as 
they  ;  and  like  the  keen  student  of  the  human  frame  who 
from  one  or  other  bone  can  build  in  imagination  and 
declare  the  proportions  of  the  whole,  so  had  he  seen  the 
remnants  of  the  faith  of  old,  and  in  his  keen  vision 
followed  them  to  their  consequence  and  end  and  junctures 
and  relations,  till  he  had  built  up  in  his  imagination  an 
ideal  Church,  and  knew  not  that  it  had  no  substance  till 
he  put  his  lips  to  its  breasts  and  found  them  dry- 
he  looked  down  now  upon  the  assembled  Church  of  this  new 
England,  and  the  Roman  Forum  was  there  and  Gregory 
passing  by,  seeking  how  he  might  serve  his  Lord  the 
more,  and  there  were  the  Saxon  youths  looking  up  into 
his  face,  and  his  face  kindling  with  a  new  thought  as  he 
conceived  and  uttered  in  the  depths  of  his  strong  heart 
the  word  of  Peter  :  Silver  and  gold  I  have  none  but  what 
I  have  I  give  thee,  arise  and  walk  in  the  faith  which  alone 
can  set  you  free ; — and  all  the  glories  were  there  of  the 
Church  from  Augustine  to  Reginald  Pole,  no  longer 
coming  upon  the  soul  with  the  aching  memory  of  what 
had  been  or  the  tremor  of  an  expectation  too  good  to  be 
found  true,  but  renewed  as  the  face  of  the  earth  when  God 
visits  it  again  in  the  returning  spring.  And  his  voice 
which  led  captive  the  Church  of  his  birth,  and  with  a 
prophet's  power  had  made  the  bones  with  frustrate  effort 
strive  to  rise  upon  the  plain,  now  led  captive  the  Church 
of  his  Fathers  seated  at  his  feet,  as  it  rose  and  fell  with 
the  pure  intellectual  vibration  of  a  mind  which  had 
sounded  every  depth  and  found  at  last  no  deepest  thought 
of  good  untrue  ;  till  every  soul  there  knew  that  God  had 
wrought  a  wonder  on  the  earth,  and  the  dead  had  lived 


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again.  The  mighty  truth  of  that  morn  had  been  in 
Milner's  soul,  shadowy  in  outline,  but  substantial  and  warm 
to  the  touch,  and  his  spirit  which  had  conceived  it  was  there 
at  its  birth.  And  his  successor  was  there  rejoicing  that 
God  had  given  him  so  large  a  share  in  bringing  to  the  birth 
that  great  issue  of  three  centuries  of  labour  and  pain,  no 
longer  a  Vicar  Apostolic,  working  his  way  through 
reproach  and  enmity  till  men  acknowledged  his  power, 
but  crowned  in  honour  as  the  first  Ordinary  of  the  See 
of  Birmingham, — whose  diocese  on  that  day  was  being 
made  for  ever  memorable  by  the  celebration,  in  his  and 
Milner's  college,  of  the  first  synod  of  the  restored  hier- 
archy, and  by  the  prophetic  voice  of  the  first  and  noblest 
of  his  subjects. 

May  Oscott  cherish  its  great  memories  !  Ten  years 
after  that  great  day  the  echoes  then  awakened  were  still 
breathing  round  its  sanctuary  and  along  its  cloisters, 
living  and  life-giving  in  the  gracious  pageantry  of  heaven's 
glory  which  on  Sunday  and  Feast  passed  along  in 
solemn  order  to  celebrate  the  eternal  Mysteries  of  Faith. 
And  however  little  Milner's  name  was  spoken,  something 
there  was  ever  reminding  the  attentive  spirit  of  his 
presence ;  all  the  great  Past  which  was  rooted  in  his  life 
lived  in  the  thought  of  him,  and  found  vital  form  in  the 
presence  of  many  who  were  carrying  forward  his  work. 
There  was  its  President  telling  of  the  source  of  the 
glories  of  the  second  spring  in  the  severance  of  earthly 
ties  borne  for  Christ's  sake,  gravely  kind  with  the  kind- 
ness of  one  who  dare  not  trust  his  heart  to  speak  lest  we 
should  know  too  much ;  there  was  the  Professor  of 
Theology  telling  of  the  grace  in  God's  Church  with  the 
patient  enthusiasm  of  one  who  having  been  borne  into  a 
lying  system  had  found  the  truth  which  sets  the 
eloquence  of  the  heart  free ;  there  was  the  master  who 
made  the  lines  of  Virgil  fresh  as  an  English  poem,  and 
knew  how  to  save  us  from  the  smarting  blow  of  the 
Prefect  with  the  whip  of  a  kindly  sardonic  tongue — he, 
too,  one  of  those  who  had  given  up  all  for  Christ's  sake ; 


and  presently  there  came  to  the  College  one  whose 
genius  in  the  science  of  historic  fact  made  him  the  first 
counsellor  of  literary  men  in  the  world  of  history,  who, 
in  a  now  far-distant  youth,  as  he  sat  in  the  great  church 
of  Durham  an  exile  from  the  faith,  heard  the  voices  of 
Bede  and  Cuthbert  high  above  all  others,  and  who,  forty 
years  before,  had  made  his  fame  by  telling  the  origin  of 
the  Catholic  Church  in  England  and  the  sanctity  of  St. 
Cuthbert  in  his  matchless  edition  of  the  historic  works 
of  St.  Bede. 

And  with  these,  other  minds  as  fair  with  the  added 
grace  of  those  whom  the  Church  has  brought  up  at  her 
own  breasts — the  Vice-President  whom  all  the  world 
loved  because  they  could  not  help  it ;  the  master  whose 
figure  told  of  the  old  times  when  the  College  was  still  in 
the  hollow,  who  made  the  Greek  tongue  tell  us  with 
unaffected  love  the  deeper  thoughts  of  his  soul,  and  used 
his  native  English  to  send  round  the  hearty  joke,  or  to 
add  even  to  his  grumble  the  irresistible  charm  of  humour; 
the  professor  who  studied  all  things  in  the  spirit  of  child- 
like discovery,  and  made  his  philosophy  the  explanation 
of  his  own  beautiful  life ;  the  prefect  whose  words  leapt 
to  his  lips  with  such  present  vitality  as  started  the  dullest 
into  instant  and  loving  obedience  :  the  master  who  loved 
the  sense  of  labour  even  more  than  the  fruit  of  his  work. 
These  and  many  another  kept  the  memories  of  old  fresh 
and  invigorating,  and  taught  us  that  the  Past  is  nothing 
but  the  past  if  its  memories  are  not  made  the  living 
Spring  of  a  brighter  Future.  Quod  faxit  Deus  ! 

S.  H.  S. 


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©ur  portraits. 


MONSIGNOR   SOUTER. 

JOSEPH  HENRY  SOUTER  was  born  on  the  i5th  of  August,  1828. 
He  first  came  to  Oscott  in  January,  1838,  in  the  last  days  of 
the  old  college.  After  completing  his  collegiate  and  Divinity 
course  he  remained  in  the  college  for  four  years  as  Professor. 
Thus  his  first  connection  with  Oscott  lasted,  with  only  a  slight 
break,  for  eighteen  years.  With  the  exception  of  the  nine  years 
from  1864  to  1873,  in  which  Mgr.  Souter  held  the  Rectory  of 
Banbury,  his  life,  after  leaving  Oscott  in  1856,  has  been  almost 
wholly  spent  in  the  work  of  education.  St.  Chad's  Grammar 
School  was  founded  by  him ;  St.  Wilfrid's  College,  Cotton,  is 
his  creation.  With  the  presidency  of  St.  Wilfrid's  Mgr.  Souter 
inherited  a  heavy  debt  and  a  college  wretchedly  deficient  in 
accommodation.  In  ten  years  he  cleared  off  the  debt,  built  a 
new  wing,  and  left  enough  money  for  his  successor  to  build 
another.  In  recognition  of  his  great  work  at  St.  Wilfrid's, 
Mgr.  Souter  was  made  a  Canon  of  the  Cathedral  Chapter  of 
St.  Chad's  Birmingham.  On  the  retirement  of  Dr.  Acton 
from  the  Presidency  of  Oscott  in  1885  Canon  Souter  became 
the  tenth  President.  In  this  year  of  the  College  Jubilee — 
which  is  also  the  jubilee  of  the  President's  connection  with 
Oscott — the  Holy  Father  has  been  pleased  to  honour  both 
the  college  and  its  President  by  making  Canon  Souter  a 
Domestic  Prelate.  It  is  noteworthy  that  there  have  been 
only  two  Domestic  Prelates  of  His  Holiness  in  this  district — 
Mgr.  Weedall,  the  founder  of  New  Oscott,  and  Mgr.  Souter. 
Perhaps  it  is  not  generally  known  that  the  idea  of  forming 
the  Oscotian  Society  was  originated  in  a  conversation  between 
Mgr.  Souter  and  the  late  Bishop  Amherst. 


THE  HON.  SIR  JOHN  CHARLES  DAY, 

JUDGE  OF  THE  COURT  OF  QUEEN'S  BENCH. 
(From  it  Photograph  by  H.  J.  Whitlock,  New  Street,  Birmingham.) 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  23. 

The  Law. 


CARDINAL    HOWARD. 

EDWARD  HENRY  HOWARD,  grandson  of  Charles,  brother  to  the 
1 2th  Duke  of  Norfolk,  and  the  son  of  the  late  Captain  Edward 
Giles  Howard,  was  born  at  Hainton,  Lincolnshire,  on  February 
13,  1829.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  entered  the  2nd  Regiment  of 
Life  Guards,  and  in  1852,  as  officer  of  that  regiment,  headed 
the  funeral  procession  of  the  Duke  of  Wellington.  In  1853  he 
left  the  Army  and  entered  on  his  Theological  Studies  in  Rome, 
where  he  was  ordained  Priest  by  Cardinal  Patrizi  in  1856.  In 
1857  he  was  made  a  Private  Chamberlain  to  Pius  IX.  Mgr. 
Howard  had  cultivated,  with  great  success,  the  study  of  Oriental 
languages,  and  in  1862  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Com- 
missioners sent  to  India  to  arrange  the  concordat  with  Portugal. 
On  his  return  Pius  IX.,  in  reward  for  his  services,  created  him  a 
Prelate.  In  1867,  Mgr.  Howard  was  appointed  vicar  to  the 
Arch-Priest  of  St.  Peter's,  and  in  1872  he  was  consecrated 
Archbishop  of  Neo-Csesarea  and  made  Auxiliary  to  the  Cardinal 
Bishop  of  Frascati.  On  March  12,  1877,  Pius  IX.  created  him 
a  Cardinal  Priest,  assigning  him  for  his  title  the  Church  of  SS. 
John  and  Paul  on  the  Ccelian  Hill.  On  the  occasion  of  his 
elevation  to  the  Cardinalate  there  were  great  festivities  at  Oscott, 
where  the  Cardinal  had  studied  for  seven  years.  A  special 
address  was  presented  to  His  Eminence  who,  in  reply,  spoke  of 
his  education  at  Oscott  as  being,  after  the  grace  of  Baptism, 
"  the  foundation-grace  of  his  life."  As  Cardinal  he  has  taken 
his  full  share  in  the  work  of  the  congregations,  to  five  of  which, 
including  Propaganda,  Propaganda  Special  for  Oriental  Rites, 
and  the  Index,  he  is  attached.  On  December  24,  1881,  he 
entered  on  his  high  office  of  Arch-Priest  of  St.  Peter's ;  thus  was 
he  restored  to  the  illustrious  Chapter  and  Clergy  of  the  Vatican 
Basilica,  in  which  he  had  formerly  served  for  nearly  nine  years  as 
Vicar  of  three  successive  Cardinal  Arch-Priests.  In  1884,  he 
was  made  Cardinal  Bishop  of  Frascati. 


BISHOP   ILSLEY. 

A  biography  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  EDWARD  ILSLEY,  2nd  Bishop 
of  Birmingham,  is,  fot  obvious  reasons,  simply  out  of  question. 
His  Lordship  has  but  recently  taken  in  hand  the  arduous  task 
that  belongs  to  his  exalted  position ;  and  we  have  no  wish  to 
emulate,  in  their  own  sphere,  the  prophets  whose  prerogative 
alone  it  is  to  forecast  the  fruits  of  harvest-time  even  before  the 
seed  has  been  sown.  Affection,  it  is  true,  would  willingly 
linger  over  many  pleasing  traits  in  a  character  of  rare  large- 
heartedness  and  unusually  winning.  But  affection  is  shy;  it 
prefers  to  speak  secretly  and  in  silent  undertones,  not  through 
the  noisy  machinery,  of  a  printing-press.  We  are  therefore 
compelled  to  restrict  ourselves  to  a  bare,  cold  and  formal 
summary  of  facts. 

Edward  Ilsley  came  to  Oscott  on  the  i3th  of  January,  1853, 

being  then  in  his  sixteenth  year.     He  was  thus  enabled  to  take 

advantage  of  a  full  and  complete  course  of  Philosophy  and 

Theology,  with  their  kindred  branches,  before  his  ordination  as 

priest,  which  took  place  on  June   29th,    1861.      His   priestly 

labours  lay  chiefly  in  the  heart  of  the  Potteries,  at  Longton, 

amid  the  smoke  and  toil  of  a  busy  district.     He  seemed  buried 

in  his  unobtrusive  work ;  but  keen  eyes  were  watching  him, 

and   so,  to  the   surprise   of  many,  on   the   foundation  of  the 

Diocesan  Seminary,  in  the  autumn  of  1873,  he  was  appointed 

its  first  Rector.     On  the  mission  he  had  gained  much  insight 

into  the  characters  of  men,  and  he  employed  the  knowledge  in 

his  new  sphere  of  life  with  abundant  fruit.     The  hearts  of  the 

students  went  out   to  him ;  for  he  studied  the  dispositions,  the 

hopes  and  fears  and  trials  of  each  one  individually,  and  all 

found  light  and  help  in  his  discerning  judgment.     On  the  i5th 

of  November,  1876,  he  was  created  a  Canon  of  the  Cathedral 

Chapter,  and  three  years  later,   in  December,    1879,  he  was 

consecrated  Bishop  Auxiliary  of  Birmingham  with  the  title  of 

Bishop  of  Fesse.     This,"  we  trust,  will  prove  to  have  been  only 

a  state  of  preparation  for  a  long  government  of  the  see  of 

Birmingham,  of  which  he  solemnly  took  possession  on  the  22nd 

of  March  of  the  present  year. 


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MONSIGNOR  STONOR. 

EDMUND  STONOR,  the  third  son  of  the  late  Thomas,  Lord 
Camoys  by  his  wife  Frances,  daughter  of  Peregrine  Towneley, 
Esq.,  of  Towneley  Hall,  Lancashire,  was  born  on  April  2,  1831. 
After  studying  eleven  years  at  Oscott  he  left  for  Rome,  whence 
he  returned  to  Oscott  in  1854;  and  in  April  1856,  he  was 
ordained  priest  by  Cardinal  Wiseman  in  the  private  chapel  at 
Stonor.  He  was  appointed  Cameriere  Secreto  in  1864,  took 
his  degree  of  Doctor  in  Canon  Law  in  1866,  and  was  made 
Canon  of  St.  John  Lateran  in  1872.  He  is  also  a  Protonotary 
Apostolic  and  a  Domestic  Prelate  of  His  Holiness.  For  a  time 
Mgr.  Stonor  likewise  filled  the  office  of  Chaplain  to  the  Papal 
Zouaves,  and  was  taken  prisoner  by  Garibaldi  at  Mentana.  In 
recognition  of  his  services  in  the  campaign,  Pius  IX.  gave  him  a 
gold  medal,  which  he  has  presented  to  the  College  museum.  Nor 
should  we  omit  to  record  with  gratitude  his  other  gifts  to 
Oscott,  which  include  a  complete  set  of  the  Commemoration 
Medals  of  the  Pontificates  of  Pius  IX.  and  Leo  XIII. ;  valuable 
paintings,  viz.,  Bishop  Amherst,  the  altar  piece  in  St.  George's 
Chapel  (1888),  and  notably  the  now  well-known  and  much 
admired  portrait  of  Leo  XIII.  by  Porta  (1879).  He  has  likewise 
given  two  large  sums  of  money  towards  the  restoration  of  the 
College  Chapel. 

ST.  GEORGE   MIVART. 

MR.  ST.  GEORGE  MIVART,  the  "distinguished  zoologist,"  as 
Darwin  calls  him,  was  born  on  November  30,  1827,  at  39 
Brook  Street,  of  evangelical  parents.  His  early  school  days 
were  passed  at  Clapham  Grammar  School,  at  Harrow  School, 
and  at  King's  College,  London.  When  young  he  studied 
architecture  with  enthusiasm,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
made  a  tour  among  Pugin's  churches,  in  the  course  of  which 
he  visited  St.  Chad's,  Birmingham.  Here  he  became  acquainted 
with  Dr.  Moore,  the  future  President  of  Oscott,  by  whom  he 
was  received  into  the  church  in  1844.  He  was  at  once  sent  to 


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Oscott,  where  he  remained  till  1846.  In  1851  he  was  called 
to  the  Bar  at  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  in  1862  he  was  appointed 
Lecturer  of  St.  Mary's  Hospital  Medical  School.  In  1867  he 
became  a  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society,  and  Vice-President  of 
the  Zoological  Society  in  1869,  and  again  in  1882.  Mr.  Mivart 
was  elected  Secretary  of  the  Linnaean  Society  in  1874,  and  in 
the  same  year  appointed  Professor  of  Biology  at  University 
College,  Kensington.  He  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Philosophy  from  Pius  IX.  in  1876,  and  that  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine  from  the  University  of  London  in  1884. 

Since  1864  he  has  written  papers  for  the  Royal  Society,  the 
Linnsean  Society  and  the  Zoological  Society,  the  bare  enumeration 
of  which  would  cover  several  pages  He  is  a  contributor  to 
the  Encyclopedia  Uritannica,  and  has  written  in  all  the  leading 
reviews  of  England  and  the  United  States. 

In  1871  appeared  Mr.  Mivart's  Genesis  of  Species — the  work 
which  established  his  position  as  the  leading  opponent  of 
Darwin.  In  subsequent  editions  of  his  Origin  of  Species  Darwin 
devoted  page  after  page  to  dealing  with  Mr.  Mivart's  objections ; 
and  how  keenly  he  felt  their  force  his  recently  published  "  Life 
and  Letters"  abundantly  testifies.  Other  works  are :  An  Examina- 
tion of  Mr.  Herbert  Spencer's  Psychology  ;  Lessons  in  Elementary 
Anatomy  (1872) ;  Man  and  Apes  (1873) ;  Lessons  from  Nature 
(1875);  Contemporary  Evolution  (1876);  Address  to  the 
Biological  Section  of  the  British  Association  (1879) ;  The  Cat 
(1881) ;  Nature  and  Thought  (1883) ;  A  Philosophical  Catechism 
(1883). 

CHARLES   KENT. 

WILLIAM  CHARLES  MARK  KENT  (better  known  as  Charles 
Kent),  poet,  barrister,  and  journalist,  was  born  in  London,  on 
November  the  3rd.,  1823,  and  educated  at  Prior  Park  and  Oscott. 
He  is  the  grandson  of  Captain  William  Kent,  R.N.,  the  discoverer 
of  Kent's  group,  the  Gulf'  of  St.  Vincent,  &c.,  who  died  at 


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Toulon,  1812,  while  in  command  of  H.M.S.  Union,  one  of  the 
grandest  line-of-battle  ships  then  afloat.  At  the  age  of  nineteen 
he  published  three  series  of  essays  and  tales.  In  1850  appeared 
Aletheia,  with  other  poems.  Lamartine  speaks  of  "  les  magnifi- 
ques  strophes  d'Aletheia,"  and  the  Athenaum  says  it  will  be 
"recurred  to  not  only  for  its  beauty  of  description,  but  for  its 
pure  and  elevated  philosophy."  Dreamland,  or  Poets  in  their 
Haunts,  was  published  by  Messrs.  Longmans  in  1862,  and  at 
the  same  time  between  seventy  and  eighty  minor  poems  of 
almost  every  kind.  Of  The  Golden  Apple  the  late  Lord  Lytton 
says  that  it  is  "  rich  with  exquisite  imagery  and  beauties  of 
poetic  expression." 

Among  his  prose  works  are  :  The  Vision  of  Cagliostro  (1847)  > 
The  Derby  Ministry  (i%$&\  subsequently  republished  under  the 
title  of  Conservative  Statesmen  ;  The  Gladstone  Government,  by' 
a  Templar;  A  Mythological  Dictionary ;  Catholicity  in  the 
Dark  Ages,  by  an  Oscotian ;  in  1 864  Footprints  on  the  Road 
was  included  by  Messrs.  Chapman  and  Hall  in  the  "Select 
Library  of  Popular  Authors."  For  five  and  twenty  years  (1845- 
1870)  Mr.  Kent  was  editor  of  the  Sun  ;  during  his  editorship  he 
had  written  more  than  five  thousand  leading  articles  and  upwards 
of  ten  thousand  reviews.  From  1874-1881  he  edited  the 
Weekly  Register.  Mr.  Kent's  work,  Charles  Dickens  as  a  Reader, 
was  published  simultaneously  in  England  and  America.  In 
1874  the  selection  and  arrangement  of  the  miscellaneous  works 
of  the  late  Lord  Lytton  was  entrusted  to  him;  in  1875  he 
edited  The  Popular  Centenary  Edition  of  the  Works  of  Charles 
Lamb;  The  Poetical  Works  of  Robert  Burns  in  1876;  The 
Centenary  Edition  of  the  Works  of  Thomas  Moore  in  1879  ;  and 
The  Works  of  Father  Prout  in  1881.  Corona  Catholica,  "a  gem 
of  scholarship,"  as  it  has  been  called,  appeared  in  1880. 

Mr.  Charles  Kent  has  been  a  contributor  to  the  new  edition 
of  the  Encyclopaedia  Britannica,  the  Dictionary  of  National 
Biography,  Westminster  Review,  Dublin  Review,  Blackwood's 
Magazine,  Household  Words,  All  the  year  Round,  Month, 


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Illustrated  Review,  Times,  Graphic,  Illustrated  London  Navs, 
Morning  Post,  Chambers'  Edinburgh  Journal,  Bentley's 
Miscellany,  New  Monthly  Magazine,  Gentleman's  Magazine, 
Afhenceum,  and  a  great  number  of  other  well-known  periodicals. 

In  1887  a  pension  on  the  civil  list  was  granted  to  Mr.  Kent 
in  recognition  of  his  services  as  a  poet  and  man  of  letters.* 

AUGUSTUS   WELBY    PUGIN. 

With  the  name  of  John,  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  must  ever  be 
linked  that  of  AUGUSTUS  WELBY  PUGIN  :  the  latter  as  the  great 
genius  who  gave  birth  to  noble  designs  that  have  exerted  a  most 
potent  influence  on  the  architecture  of  this  century  :  the  former 
as  the  munificent  patron  whose  boundless  liberality  enabled 
Pugin  to  give  free  scope  to  his  genius.  Born  in  1810,  he  was, 
at  the  age  of  twenty-seven,  Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  Antiquities 
at  the  old  College ;  he  likewise  held  this  post  for  some  years  at 
new  Oscott.  His  lectures  to  the  students  were  printed  in  full 
in  the  numbers  of  the  Catholic  Magazine  of  the  time,  and  were 
afterwards  published  separately.  The  new  College  of  Oscott 
bears  many  traces  of  Pugin's  work  :  he  designed  the  two  lodges 
— a  sketch  of  one  (the  Sutton)  is  given  in  this  volume ;  he 
brought  together,  from  English  and  foreign  cathedrals,  our  fine 
collection  of  wood  carvings  to  illustrate  his  lectures ;  the  costly 
cabinets  and  other  furniture  of  the  house  were  designed  and  put 
together  by  him  from  materials  he  had  collected  in  his  travels ; 
the  reredos  of  the  High  Altar  is  entirely  of  his  construction  ;  no 
better  specimen  of  his  church  decoration  is  to  be  found  than 
that  on  the  roof  of  the  Oscott  chapel.  Besides  many  other 
works,  Oscott  possesses  the  first  chalice  and  the  first  memorial 
brass  designed  by  Pugin  at  the  time  of  the  Gothic  revival. 
Many  of  our  art  treasures  are  referred  to  in  his  Glossary. 
Pugin  died  in  1852, 

*  Condensed  from  the  notice  in  the  Biograph,  January  1882. 


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JOHN,  EARL  OF  SHREWSBURY. 

JOHN,  SIXTEENTH  EARL  OF  SHREWSBURY,  Earl  of  Waterford 
and  Wexford,  Premier  Earl  of  England,  Hereditary  Lord  High 
Seneschal  of  Ireland,  Knight  of  the  Apostolic  Order  of  S. 
Gregory,  Knight  Grand  Cross  of  the  Royal  Ernestine  Order 
of  Saxony,  Fellow  of  the  Royal  Society,  and  Member  of  the 
Royal  Academy  of  Naples,  was  born  at  Grafton  Manor  on 
March  i8th,  1791,  being  the  second  son  of  John  and  Catherine 
Talbot.  He  ran  through  the  usual  course  of  Catholic  studies, 
partly  at  college,  partly  under  private  tuition,  with  credit  and 
success.  But  "  it  was  not  his  abilities,  or  his  high  station,  or 
his  illustrious  ancestry  that  constituted  his  nobility  ;  his  virtues, 
ennobled  him  even  more  than  these ;  and  he  must  ever  be 
remembered  as  '  The  Good  Earl  of  Shrewsbury.' "  On  the 
death  of  his  uncle,  the  fifteenth  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  in  1827, 
he  succeeded  to  the  title  and  estates.  Rank  and  fortune, 
however,  made  no  change  in  him.  He  was  then  and  after,  as 
he  was  before,  the  same  humble,  gentle,  mortified  man, 
solicitous  only  to  do  good  and  to  please  God.  For  five  and 
twenty  years  he  was  the  munificent  protector  of  Catholicity  in 
England.  "  His  munificence  to  the  Church  was  unbounded ; 
almost  is  it  startling  to  record ;  outstripping  the  deeds  of  the 
early  Patrician  Senators,  and  emulating,  in  fact,  the  merchant 
princes  of  Venice  and  Genoa,  with  whom  a  glorious  Church 
was  their  policy  of  insurance,  and  a  costly  altar  the  price  of  a 
vow.  Our  English  land  is  literally  studded  with  his  noble 
erections — cathedrals,  convents,  monasteries,  schools,"  which 
will  stand  for  ages  as  noble  records  of  his  piety.  He  is  Oscott's 
greatest  benefactor.  "  Can  I  forget,"  says  Mgr.  Weedall,  "  the 
liberal  encouragement  he  gave  when  we  were  raising  our 
extensive  College  of  New  Oscott,  the  interest  which  he  took  in 
its  erection,  the  two  hundred  paintings  which  he  gave,  the 
presents  which  he  made  of  ornament  and  of  art,  which  clothed 
the  walls  at  once  with  a  Christian  character  and  gave  to  them 
the  age  and  solemnity  of  a  hundred  years." 

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MAJOR-GENERAL    DORMER. 

The  HON.  JAMES  CHARLEMAGNE  DORMER,  2nd  son  of  the 
nth  Lord  Dormer,  was  born  January  26,  1834.     At  the  age  of 
seven  he  came  to  Oscott,  where  he  remained  for  ten  years.    He 
entered  the  army  in  1853,  and  was  made  lieutenant  the  following 
year.     From  June  30,  1855,  he  served  in  the  Crimea  as  Adju- 
tant to  the  1 3th  Light  Infantry,  and  was  present  at  the  siege  and 
fall   of    Sebastopol,   and   the   battle   of   Tchernaya,   receiving 
Turkish  medal  and  Medal  with  Clasp.     He  also  served  in  the 
Indian  Mutiny,  including  the  relief  of  Azimghur  and  the  cam- 
paign in  Gorruchpore  in   1858  ;    being   afterwards   appointed 
aide-de-camp  to  Lord  Clyde,  he  was  present  at  the  action  during 
the  Oude  and  Trans-Gogra  Campaign  of  1858.     He  was  men- 
tioned in  the  despatches,  and  was  rewarded  with  medal  and  his 
brevet  of  major  on  June  14,  1859,  having  been  made  captain 
only  the  preceding  March.     In  1860,  Major  Dormer  proceeded 
to  China  as  Assistant  Adjutant-General  to  the  Expeditionary 
Force,  and  was  present  throughout  the  operations  of  that  cam- 
paign, including  the  capture  of  the  Taku  Forts  and  the  advance 
on  and  entry  into  Pekin.  He  was  now  promoted  to  an  unattached 
majority,  and  received  Medal  with  two  Clasps.     Major  Dormer 
became  lieut.-colonel  in  1870,  and  full  colonel  in-  1875.     AS 
deputy  adjutant-general  on  the  head  quarters  staff,  Col.  Dormer 
served  throughout  the  Egyptian  War  of  1882,  and  was  present 
at  the  reconnaisance  in  force  from  Alexandria,  the  engagements 
of  Tel-el-Mahuta  and  Kassassin,  and  in  the  battle  of  Tel-el- 
Kebir.    For  distinguished  service  in  the  field,  Col.  Dormer  was, 
on  November   18,  1882,  promoted  to  be  major-general,  at  the 
same  time  receiving  Medal  with  Clasp,  2nd  class  of  the  Medjidie, 
and  Khedive's  stan     He  served  with  the  Nile  Expedition  in 
1885  in  command  of  a  brigade  at  Tani,  and  afterwards  of  the 
Nile  Field  Force.    After  this  he  commanded  the  Dublin  district 
till  his  appointment  as  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Forces  in 
Egypt. 


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CAPTAIN    FEGEN. 

FREDERICK  F.  FEGEN  is  the  son  of  Frederick  James  Fegen, 
R.N.,  C.B.,  of  Ballinlonty,  naval  adviser  to  H.R.H.  the  Duke 
of  Edinburgh.  Last  November  the  Lords  of  the  Admiralty 
promoted  Lieut.  Fegen  to  be  Commander,  to  mark  their  recog- 
nition of  his  gallant  conduct  in  what  has  been  described  "as 
brilliant  and  thorough  a  real  sea-dog  exploit  as  ever  graced 
British  naval  annals."  There  is  no  need  to  repeat  the  story  of 
his  gallant  capture  of  a  slave  dhow,  which  is  still  fresh,  and  will 
ever  live  in  the  public  mind. 

JUDGE    DAY. 

JOHN  CHARLES  DAY  was  born  at  the  Hague,  on  June  20, 
1826,  being  the  son  of  Capt.  John  Day,  of  the  49th  Regiment, 
by  Emily,  daughter  of  Jan  Caspar  Hartsinck.  His  college 
course  was  somewhat  diversified.  From  Oscott  he  went  to 
schools  in  Italy  and  Switzerland,  and  on  returning  to  England, 
was  placed  with  the  Benedictines,  at  Downside.  After  gradua- 
ting B. A.  at  the  London  University,  he  was  called  to  the  Bar 
at  Middle  Temple,  in  January,  1849,  and  joined  the  Home 
(now  South  Eastern)  Circuit.  He  was  made  Q.C.  in  1872,  a 
Bencher  in  June,  1873,  and  Judge  in  1882,  receiving  at  the 
same  time  the  distinction  of  knighthood.  For  some  time  he 
was  the  editor  of  the  Common  Law  Procedure  Acts,  and  of 
Roscoe's  Nisi  Prius.  In  1886  Judge  Day  was  made  President 
of  the  Special  Commission  appointed  to  inquire  into  the  riots 
at  Belfast. 

EDWIN    DE   LISLE. 

EDWIN  DE  LISLE,  the  7th  son  of  Ambrose  Lisle  March 
Phillips  de  Lisle,  Esq.,  of  Garendon  Park  and  Grace  Dieu  Manor, 
by  Laura  Mary,  eldest  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Thomas  Clifford, 
4th  son  of  Hugh,  Lord  Clifford  of  Chudleigh,  was  born 
on  June  13,  1853.  Having  studied  at  Oscott,  with  a  slight 
break,  from  1863  to  1872,  he  went  to  Germany  to  complete  his 


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studies.  In  1874  he  translated  from  the  German  :  A  comparison 
between  the  History  of  the  Church  and  the  Prophecies  of  the 
Apocalypse.  Besides  writing  in  Periodicals  and  Reviews,  Mr. 
de  Lisle  has  published  several  political  and  polemical  pamphlets, 
e.g.;  The  Parliamentary  Oath  (1883);  Centenary  Studies 
(1884);  Unreason  in  High  Places  (1886);  The  Ma/esty  of 
London.  In  this  last  brochure  Mr.  De  Lisle  detailed  a  plan  for 
beautifying  the  Metropolis,  which  was  favourably  received  in 
the  leading  newspapers  and  reviews.  Mr.  de  Lisle  was  one  of 
the  five  Catholic  Members  returned  for  English  constituencies  at 
the  General  Election  in  1886.  Since  his  entry  into  Parliament 
Mr.  de  Lisle's  name  has  been  very  prominently  before  the  public 
in  connection  with  all  great  political  questions.  In  the  House  he 
is  a  ready  and  eloquent  speaker. 

SIR  THOMAS   ESMONDE,   BART. 

SIR  THOMAS  HENRY  GRATTAN  ESMONDE,  of  Ballynastragh, 
co.  Wexford,  was  'born  on  Sep.  21,  1862,  and  succeeded  his 
father  as  the  nth  Baronet,  in  1876,  when  he  was  still  in  College 
at  Oscott.  In  1885,  when  only  twenty-three  years  of  age,  he 
was  elected,  after  a  stubborn  contest,  M,P.  for  South  Dublin 
County,  and  re-elected  the  following  year.  He  is  now  one  of 
the  most  conspicuous  members  of  the  Irish  party.  The  esteem 
in  which  his  party  hold  him  is  shown  by  his  having  been  chosen 
as  their  special  delegate  to  America.  He  delivered  addresses 
in  Canada,  Nova  Scotia,  Mexico,  and  from  end  to  end  of  the 
United  States.  The  Senate  and  Congress  of  Mexico  received 
him  with  extraordinary  honours.  The  Legislatures  of  Virginia 
and  Georgia  gave  him  a  warm  welcome,  and  Albany  bestowed 
on  him  the  freedom  of  the  city. 


JUBILEE   HYMN 


WRITTEN  BY 

THE  REV.  J.   HOPWOOD. 

THE  MUSIC  COMPOSED  BY 
J.   BARRATT. 


Sons  of  Oscott,  gathered  here, 
Old  and  young,  from  far  and  near, 

With  joy  your  hearts  upraise ; 
And  let  your  voices,  loud  and  free, 
Sing  Alma  Mater's  Jubilee ! 
With  thankfulness  to  God— that  He 

Hath  blessed  with  many  days  ! 

To  thee,  O  Mother !  who  hast  borne 

So  many  sons,  and  true, 
We  give,  for  all,  oh  this  great  morn 

A  loyal  greeting  due  ! 
And  proudly  sing  thy  world-wide  fame, 
And  prize  thy  hallowed  name  ! 

To  thee,  O  Mother !  throned  above, 
Our  chosen  guardian  there, 

We  offer  now  our  grateful  love 
For  all  thy  tender  care  : 

Thy  sons  have  e'er  been,  e'er  will  be 

True  and  devout  to  thee ! 

To  Thee,  O  God  !  whose  might  divine 
Creates,  upholds  unseen, 

We  humbly  turn :  the  good  is  Thine, 
Whate'er  the  good  has  been  ! 

Thy  holy  will' we  praise,  adore  : 

Thy  further  gifts  implore. 

Sound  your  voices  louder  still, 
Welcoming  with  right  good  will 

This  day  of  happiness ; 
And  lift  your  hearts  to  God  in  praise, 
For  He  hath  given  length  of  days, 
For  He  hath  blessed  us  many  ways  : 

May  He  for  ever  bless  ! 


JUBILEE   HYMN. 

Jubilee  Ib^mn. 

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Bass. 


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Old  and  young,  from  far  and  near, 

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With  thankfulness  to  God — that  He 

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Whate'er  the  good  has  been  ! 

Thy  holy  will' we  praise,  adore  : 

Thy  further  gifts  implore. 

Sound  your  voices  louder  still, 
Welcoming  with  right  good  will 

This  day  of  happiness ; 
And  lift  your  hearts  to  God  in  praise, 
For  He  hath  given  length  of  days, 
For  He  hath  blessed  us  many  ways : 

May  He  for  ever  bless  ! 


JUBILEE   HYMN. 

Jubilee  Ib^mn. 

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Soprano. 
Alto. 


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32: 


EDWIN  DE  LISLE,  F.S.A., 

M.P.  FOR  MID-LEICESTERSHIRE. 
(From  a  Photograph  by  Lombardi  <5f  Co.,  13,  Pall  Mall  East.) 


08COTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  24. 

Members  of  Parliament. 


APPENDIX. 


[The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  the  Boys  and  Masters  who  have  been 
at  either  the  Old  or  the  New  College.  In  a  work  of  such  magnitude 
errors  and  omissions  will  almost  of  necessity  occur.  Of  a  large  number 
of  the  students  we  have  no  knowledge  whatever  after  they  left  school  ;  the 
names  of  these  are  given,  followed  merely  by  the  dates  at  which  they 
came  to  Oscott  and  left.  We  shall  be  grateful  for  any  corrections  or 
suggestions  so  that,  should  a  Second  Edition  be  demanded,  it  may  be 
shorn  of  the  many  imperfections  that  disfigure  its  predecessor. 

We  deeply  regret  our  inability  to  realize  the  promise  we  had  held  out 
of  publishing  a  chapter  on  Oscotian  Bibliography.  Although  material 
has  been  collected  sufficient  to  cover  one  hundred  pages,  there  are  still  so 
many  gaps  and  imperfections  that  we  have  deemed  it  advisable  to 
suspend  publication  till  Christmas,  when,  we  trust,  we  shall  be  able  to 
present  the  bibliography  in  a  fairly  complete  form.] 


Cist  of  Superiors,  blasters  anb  Sttibents* 

PRESIDENTS. 

Rev.  JOHN  BEW,  D.D Feb.,  1794  —  June,  1808 

*Rev.  THOMAS  POTTS  Aug.,  1808  —  Dec.,  1815 

Rev.  JOHN  FRANCIS  QUICK Jan.,  1816  —  Aug.,  1818 

fRev.  THOMAS  WALSH  ...         ...  Aug.,  1818  —  May,  1825 

JRev.  HENRY  WEEDALL,  D.D.          ...  May,  1825  —  June,  1840 

Rt.  Rev.  NICHOLAS  WISEMAN,  D.D.  Sep.,  1840  —  Sep.,  1847 
Rev.  HENRY  F.  C.  LOGAN,  D.C.L.  ...  Sep.,  1847  —  Sep.,  1848 

Very  Rev.  JOHN  MOORE,  D.D.        ...  Sep.,  1848  —  July,  1853 

Rt.  Rev.  Monsignor  WEKDALT,,  D.D.  July,  1853  —  Nov.,  1859 
Very  Rev.  GEORGE  MORGAN,  D.D....  Dec.,  1859  —  July,  1860 

Very  Rev.  J.  SPENCER  NORTHCOTE,  D.D.  July,  1860  —  July,  1877 
Very  Rev.  JOHN  HAWKSFORD,   D.D.  July,  1877  —  Oct.,  1880 
Very  Rev.  EDWARD  ACTON,  D.D.    ...  Oct.,  1880  —  Dec.,  1884 

Very  Rev.  JOSEPH  HENRY  SOUTER...  Jan.,  1885  — 

*  In  December,  1815,  Mr.  Potts  was  incapacitated  from  holding  the  office 
of  President,  but  was  allowed  the  nominal  title  till  his  death,  Dec.  5,  1819. 

f  In  reality  Mr.  Walsh  was  President  till  the  Summer  of  1822.  After  the 
Summer  Vacation,  he  changed  places  with  Dr.  Weedall,  but  retained  the 
nominal  title  till  his  Consecration,  May  I,  1825. 

J  In  June,  1830,  Dr.  Weedall  retired  temporarily  from- the  management 
of  the  College  ;  during  his  absence,  the  Rev.  William  Foley  became  his 
locum  tenens  till  Sept.,  1831,  and  the  Rev.  Robert  Richmond,  from  Sept.,  1831. 
to  Dr.  Weedall's  return,  Dec.  6th  of  the  same  year. 


APPENDIX. 


VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Rev.  THOMAS  POTTS  Nov.,  1794 

Rev.  THOMAS  WALSH          Aug.,  1808 

Rev.  HENRY  WEEDALL        Aug.,  1818 

Rev.  JOHN  ABBOT     ...         May,  1825 

Rev.  ROBERT  RICHMOND     Aug.,  1830 

Rev.  WILLIAM  WAREING     Apr.,  1838 

Rev.  HENRY  F.  C.  LOGAN,  D.C.L.  ...  Sep.,  1840 

Very  Rev.  GEORGE  MORGAN,  D.D....  Mid.,  1846 

Very  Rev.  RODOLPHUS  BAGNALL    ...  Sep.,  1847 

Very  Rev.  J.  S.  NORTHCOTE,  D.D.. 

Rev.  W.  GROSVENOR 

Rev.  EDMUND  KNIGHT        ... 

Rev.  WILLIAM  J.  GREANEY  ... 

Rev.  JOSEPH  J.  DALY 

Rev.  JOHN  CASWELL 


Jan.,  1860 
Nov.,  1 860 
Nov.,  1 86  2 
Mid.,  1877 
Oct.,  1880 
Jan.,  1885 


-  Aug.,  1808 

-  Aug.,  1818 

—  May,  1825 

—  June,  1830 

-  Apr.,  1838 

—  Sep.,  1840 

-  Mid.,  1846 
-Sep.,  1847 

—  Xmas.i859 

—  July,  1860 

—  Nov.,  1862 

-  Mid.,  1877 

-  Oct.,  1880 

—  Xmas.i884 


PREFECTS  OF  DISCIPLINE. 


Rev.  RICHARD  HUBBARD     ... 

Rev.  WILLIAM  WAREING 

Rev.  THOMAS  MCDONNELL 

Rev.  SOLOMON  STRONGITHARM 

Rev.  GEORGE  JINKS 

Rev.  WILLIAM  RICHMOND 

Rev.  WILLIAM  FOLEY 

Rev.  THOMAS  LAWRENCE  GREEN 

Rev.  EDWARD  HUDDLESTON 

Rev.  RODOLPHUS  BAGNALL... 

Rev.  JOHN  GASCOYNK 

Mr.  THOMAS  GUINAN 

Mr.  RICHARD  PHELAN 

Rev.  THOMAS  REVILL 

Rev.  THOMAS  L.  GREEN    .,... 

Rev.  JAMES  BOND    

Rev.  JOSEPH  KELLY 

Rev.  THOMAS  TELFORD 


1813 


Mid.,  1822  —  Mid.,  1823 


Mid.,  1825 

Jan.,  1827 

Sep.,  1827 

1829 

1843 

Nov.,  1844 
Jan.,  1847 
Jan.,  1850 
Aug.,  1852 


Xmas.  1826 

Sep.,  1827 

1829 

1843 
Nov.,  1844 

•Jan.,  1847 
Xmas.  1 849 
Aug.,  1852 

-Jan.,  1853 


APPENDIX.  3 

Rev.  THOMAS  DUCKETT       Jan.,  1853  —  Feb.,  1860 

Rev.  WALTER  MARTIN         Feb.,  1860 — Xmas.i864 

Rev.  WILLIAM  M.  STONE     ...         ...  Jan.,  1865  —  Mid.,  1868 

Rev.  CHARLES  MALF AIT      Mid.,  1868  —  Mid.,  1870 

Rev.  JOSEPH  ROBINSON       Mid.,  1870  —  Mid.,  1872 

Rev.  CHARLES  RYDER         Mid., 1872 — Xmas.i872 

Rev.  VINCENT  O.  HOLCROFT          ...  Xmas.  1872  —  Feb.,  1873 

Rev.  EDWARD  SCANLAN       Feb..  1873  — Apr.,  1876 

Rev.  WILLIAM  M.  STONE     ...         ...  Apr.,  1876  —  Apr.,  1879 

Rev.  JOHN  ULLATHORNE     Apr.,  1879  —  Oct.,  1879 

Rev.  FRANCIS  HOPKINS       Oct.,  1879 — Xmas.i88o 

Rev.  WILLIAM  SUTHERLAND  ...  Jan.,  1881  — Xmas.  1883 

Rev.  FREDERICK  WILLIAMS Jan.,  1884  —  Apr.,  1888 

Rev.  MICHAEL  F.  GLANCEY  ...  Apr.,  1888  — 


PROCURATORS. 

Mr.  SISSON 1795  —  1800 

Mr.  YATES 1800 —  1802 

*Rev.  JOHN  FRANCIS  QUICK Aug.,  1808 —  1818 

Rev.  WILLIAM  FOLEY          ...         ...  1818  —  Oct.,  1823 

Rev.  ROBERT  WILLSON        ...     '    ...  Oct.,  1823  —  May,  1825 
Rev.  THOMAS  L.  GREEN      May,  1825  —  Apr.,  1828 

fRev.  JOHN  GASCOYNE          Aug.,  1828  —  Apr.,  1832 

Eev.  FRANCIS  CHEADLE      Apr.,  1832  —  Aug.,  1834 

Rev.  JOHN  NICKOLDS  ...         ...  Aug.,  1834  —  Mid.,  1844 

Mr.  GEORGE  MANN  ...         Mid.,  1844  —  Aug.,  1846 

Rev.  RODOLPHUS  BAGNALL...         ...  Aug.,  1846  — -  Oct.,  1847 

Rev.  RICHARD  PHELAN        ...         ...  Nov.,  1847 — Jan.,  1848 

Mr.  JOHN  FOWLER Jan.,  1848  —  Aug.,  1849 

Rev.  THOMAS  SIMKISS          Aug.,  1849  —  June,  1853 

Very  Rev.  HENRY  RICHMOND        ...  July,  1853 — Xmas.i86o 
Rev.  CHARLES  PEARSON      ...         ...  Xmas.  1860  —  Oct.,  1866 

Rev.  VINCENT  O.  HOLCROFT          ...  Oct.,  1866 — Xmas.i88i 

Rev.  JOSEPH  J.  DALY  Jan.,  1882  — Xmas.  1884 

Rev.  Louis  SPENCER  Jan.,  1885  — 

*  The  President  kept  the  accounts  from  1802-1808. 

f  The  Rev.  R.  Bagnall  kept  the  accounts  from  April  to  August,  1828. 


4  APPENDIX. 

PROFESSORS  OF  THEOLOGY. 

Rev.  THOMAS  POTTS  1794 —  1815 

Rev.  JOHN  FRANCIS  QUICK Jan.,  1816  —  Mid.,  1818 

Rev.  HENRY  WEEDALL        Sep.,  1818 — Xmas.i824 

*Rev.  JOHN  ABBOT     ...         ...         ...  Xmas.i825  —  Mid. ,1830 

Rev.  ROBERT  RICHMOND     Mid.,  1830  — 

Rev.  JAMES  WATER  WORTH — Jan.,  1834 

Rev.  WILLIAM  TANDY,  D.D.  ...  Jan.,  1834 —  1836 

Rev.  FRANCIS  CHEADLE       1836  —  Apr.,  1840 

Rev.  TIMOTHY  O'CONNELL,  D.D.   ...  Apr.,  1840  —  Sep.,  1842 

Rev.  JOHN  PAGANI,  D.D 1842  —  Aug.,  1843 

Rev.  GEORGE  ERRINGTON,  D.D.     ...  Aug.,  1843  -  1847 

Rev.  L.  ACQUARONE,  D.D 1847  -  1848 

Rev.  PETER  A.  DAVIES        Nov.,  1848  —  Mid.,  1849 

• 

Rev.  JOHN  MOORE,  D.D.     ...  1849  —  1853 

Rev.  GEORGE  MORGAN,  D.D.         ...  1851 —  1859 

Rev.  CHARLES  MEYNELL,  D.D.      ...  1860 —  1861 

Rev.  HENRY  WALKER,  M.A.          ...  1861  —  1863 

Rev,  HENRY  B.  DAVIES       1863  —  1865 

Rev.  EDMUND  KNIGHT        1865  —  1877 

Rev.  WILLIAM  H.  BODLEY,  MA.    ...  1863  —  1870 

Rev.  CHARLES  MALFAIT      1870—  1872 

Rev.  JAMES  O'HANLON        1872  —  Mid.,  1877 

Rev.  WILLIAM  BARRY,  D.D.  ...  Sep.,  1877  —  Nov.,  1880 
Rev.  BERNARD  KOPER,  D.D.  ...  Oct.,  1881  —  Feb.,  1885 
Rev.  JOHN  MC!NTYRE,  D.D.  ...  Sep.,  1880  —  Apr.,  1884 
Rev.  FREDERICK  W.  KEATING  ...  Apr.,  1884  —  Mid.,  1887 
Rev.  JOHN  MC!NTYRE,  D.D.  ...  Apr.,  1885  —  Mid.,  1886 
Rev.  VICTOR  J.  SCHOBEL,  D.D.  ...  Sep.,  1886  - 
Rev.  JOHN  HOPWOOD  Oct.,  1887  - 


*  There  seems  to  have  been  no  special  Professor  of  Theology  in  the  year 
1825.  Dr.  Husenbeth  taught  for  about  a  fortnight,  and  then  resigned  the 
post, 


APPENDIX.  5 

PREFECTS  OF  STUDIES. 

Rev.  JOHN  MOORE 1839 

Rev.  JAMES  BROWN 1839  -  1844 

Rev.  GEORGE  ERRINGTON,  D.D.     ...  1844-  1847 

Rev.  BERNARD  SMITH,  M.A.  ...  1847  -  1848 

Rev.  THOMAS  FLANAGAN     1848  —  1850 

Rev.  JOSEPH  KELLY 1850  —  Mid.,  1853 

Rev.  THOMAS  FLANAGAN     Mid.,  1853  —  Mid.,  1854 

Rev.  JOSEPH  KELLY...         ...         ...  Mid.,  1854  —  Apr.,  1858 

Rev.  THOMAS  FLANAGAN     Apr.,  1858  —  Mid.,  1859 

Rev.  HENRY  B.  DAVIES      Mid.,  1859  —  Mid.,  1863 

Rev.  JOHN  HAWKSFORD      Mid.,  1863  —  Mid.,  1868 

Rev.  WILLIAM  M.  STONE     Mid.,  1868  —  Nov.,  1870 

Rev.  JOHN  HAWKSFORD      Nov.,  1870  —  Mid.,  1877 

Rev.  FRANCIS  HOPKINS       Mid.,  1877  —  Oct.,  1879 

Rev.  JOHN  CASWELL  Oct.,  1879  —  Xmas.iSSo 

Rev.  FRANCIS  HOPKINS       Jan.,  1881   —  Xmas.i88i 

Rev.  JOHN  CASWELL  Jan.,  1882  —  Mid.,  1883 

Rev.  WILLIAM  M.  STONE Mid.,  1883  — 


Those  whose  names  are  preceded  by  an  asterisk  received  no  part  of  their 
education  .at  Oscott,  The  dates  in  parentheses  indicate  length  of  time  at 
Oscott. 

CARDINALS. 

Howard,  His  Eminence  Edward  Cardinal,  Bishop  of  Frascati, 
(Jan.  17,  1841,  Xmas.  1847),  ordained  Priest  in  1855  ;  Domestic 
Prelate  of  His  Holiness  ;  Vicar  of  the  Patriarchal  Vatican  Basilica  ; 
Consultor  of  the  Sacred  Congregation  of  Propaganda  for  Oriental 
Rites  ;  Referendary  of  the  Signature  of  Justice  ;  Doctor  in  Theology; 
Doctor  in  Canon  Law  ;  consecrated  Archbishop  of  Neocaesarea,  and 
Coadjutor  to  the  Cardinal  Bishop  of  Frascati,  July  7th,  1872  ;  Arch- 
Priest  of  St.  Peter's  ;  created  and  proclaimed  Cardinal  Priest,  1877  ; 
Cardinal  Bishop  of  Frascati,  1884. 

*  Wiseman,  His  Eminence  Nicholas  Cardinal,  b.  1802; 
ordained  March  19,  1825  ;  President  (1840-7)  ;  Bp.  of  Melipotamus 
1840  ;  transferred  to  the  London  District  1847  ;  Archbishop  of 
Westminster  Sep.  29,  1850  ;  created  Cardinal  Sep.  30,  1850 ;  died 
Feb.  15,  1865. 


6  APPENDIX 

BISHOPS. 

Amherst,  Right  Rev.  Francis  Kerril  (Aug.  18,  i83o-Mid.  1838) 
(May  1841-1846)  (1847-1852)  (1855  to  Oct.  1856) ;  ordained  Priest 
June  6,  1846  ;  consecrated  Bishop  of  Northampton  July  4,  1858  ; 
translated  to  Sozusa  1880,  died  Aug.  21,  1883. 

Bagshawe,  Right  Rev.  Edward  Gilpin(Sep.  1838- Mid.  1846); 
ordained  Priest  March  6,  1852  ;  consecrated  Bishop  of  Nottingham, 
Nov.  12,  1874. 

Brown,  Right  Rev.  James  (Aug.  1826 -Jan.  1845);  ordained 
Priest  Feb.  18,  1837  ;  consecrated  Bishop  of  Shrewsbury,  July  27, 
1851  ;  died  Oct.  14,  1881. 

Bryan,  Right  Rev.  Thomas  (Sep.  1838 -Mid.  1841);  con- 
secrated Bishop  of  Cartagena,  January  25,  1885. 

Butler,  Right  Rev.  Anthony,  S.  J.  (Oct.  184 7 -Mid.  1849); 
ordained  Priest  Jan.  I.  1872  ;  consecrated  Bishop  of  Mellipotamus, 
Vicar- Apostolic  of  Demerara,  1878. 

*Errington,  Most  Rev.  George ;  Prefect  of  Studies  (1843-1847); 
consecrated  Bishop  of  Plymouth,  July  25,  1851  ;  Archbishop  of 
Trebizond,  1855  ;  died  Jan.  19,  1886. 

Ilsley,  Right  Rev.  Edward  (Jan.  i853-Mid.  1861);  ordained 
Priest  June  29,  1861  ;  consecrated  Bishop  of  Fesse,  Dec.  4,  1879; 
Bishop  of  Birmingham,  Feb.  17,  1888. 

Knight,  Right  Rev.  Edmund  (Feb.  1839 -Mid.  1843) ;  ordained 
Priest  Dec.  19,  1857  ;  Vice- President  (1862-1877)  >  consecrated 
Bishop  of  Coricum,  July  25,  1879  ;  Bishop  of  Shrewsbury,  April  25, 
1882. 

*Milner,  Right  Rev.  John,  Bishop  of  Castabala,  consecrated 

May  22,  1803  ;  died  April  19,  1826. 

MontCS  de  Oca,  Right  Rev.  Ignatius  (May  1853 -Mid.  1857), 
consecrated  Bishop  of  Tamaulipas,  March  12,  1871  ;  Bishop  of 
Linares,  1880  ;  Bishop  of  San  Luis  Potosi,  1884. 

Mostyn,  Right  Rev.  Francis    (Aug.  1813 -Mid.  1816)    (Dec. 

1822-1828)  ;  ordained  Priest,  March  I,  1828;  consecrated  Bishop  of 

Abydos,  Vicar-Apostolic  of  the  Northern  District,  Dec.  21,  1840 ; 

died  Aug.  u,  1847. 
*Talbot,   Right  Rev.   the   Hon.   Thomas,    Bishop  of  Acone, 

Vicar- Apostolic  of  the  Midland  District,  consecrated  1776  ;    died 

Feb.  24,  1795. 
*Ullathorne,  Most  Rev.  William  Bernard,  O.S.B.,  Bishop  of 

Hetalona,  June  21,   1846 ;  translated  to  Central  District,  July  28, 

1848  ;  Bishop  of  Birmingham,  Sep.  29,  1850  ;    appointed   Titular 

Archbishop  of  Cabasa,  April  27,  1888. 

Vaughan,  Right  Rev.  William  (Aug.  1827  -  Jan.  1838), 
ordained  Priest,  March  10.  183$ ;  consecrated  Bishop  of  Plymouth, 
Sep.  16,  1855. 


APPENDIX.  7 

*Walsh,  Right  Rev.  Thomas,  Vice-President  (1808-1818); 
President  (1818-1825)  ;  ordained  in  1801  ;  consecrated  Bishop 
of  Cambysopolis,  May  r,  1825,  V.  A.  of  the  Central  District ; 
translated  to  the  London  District  July  28,  1848  ;  died  Feb.  18,  1849. 

Wareing,  Right  Rev.  William  (March,  1806  -  Mid.  1816), 
ordained  Priest,  Sep.  28.  1815;  Vice-President  (1838-40);  con- 
secrated V.  A.  of  the  Eastern  District,  Sep.  21,  1840 ;  Bishop  of 
Northampton,  Sep.  29,  1850 ;  translated  to  Retimo,  Dec  23,  1858  ; 
died  Dec.  26,  1865. 

Wilkinson,  Right  Rev.  Thomas  (Jan.  1847 -Xmas.  1848), 
ordained  Priest  Dec.  23,  1848  ;  Bishop  of  Cisanum  and  Coadjutor 
Bishop  of  Hexham  and  Newcastle,  1888. 

Wiilson,    Right   Rev.    William   (Feb.  1816- 1824);  ordained 
Priest,  Dec  ,  1824  ;   consecrated  Bishop  of  Hobarton,  Oct.  28, 
died  June  30,  1866. 


PRIESTS. 

Abbot,  John  Canon  (Feb.,  1817-1830),  ordained  July  25,  1821; 
Vice-President  (1826-1830)  ;  Canon  of  Northampton  ;  died  April  5, 
1858. 

*Acquarone,  L.  (1846-1848),  Professor  of  Italian  and  Theology. 
Acton,  Edward  Charles  Canon,  D.D.,  B.A.  (Sep.  1853-1858), 
ordained  Sep.   1863 ;  President  (Oct.  l88o-Xmas.  1884),  Canon  of 
Birmingham. 

Allen,  Samuel  Canon  (Sep.  1863-1866),  ordained  Dec.  4, 
1870  ;  Canon  Theologian  of  Shrewsbury. 

Amherst,  William;  S.  J.  (Aug.  1830-1838),  ordained  Aug.  15, 

1859- 
Anderson,    Joseph    (Aug.  1855-1858),    ordained    Aug.    24, 

1858;  died  May  15.  1884. 

*Arcanger,  A.  (1839-1841),  Professor  of  French. 
Ashlin,  Stephen  (Nov.,  1849-1855). 

Bacchus,  John  Northcote  (Sep.  1867-1868)  (1880-1883), 
ordained  Dec.  22,  1883. 

Baddeley,  Thomas  (April,  1812-1815)  ordained  Sep.  28,  1815; 

died  Feb.  18.  1823. 
Bagnall,    Rodolphus    Canon    (Aug.    1816-1828),    ordained 

March  27,  1827  ;  Procurator  (1846-7)  ;  Vice-President  (1847-1860)  ; 
Provost  of  Chapter  of  Birmingham  ;  died  Nov.  18,  1883. 

Bagshawe  John  B.  Canon,  D  D.  (Sep.,  1838  -  Mid.  1846), 
ordained  March  15,  1851  ;  Canon  Penitentiary  of  Southwark. 


8  APPENDIX. 

Ball,    Anthony     (Sep.  1845  -  Mid.  1851),    ordained   Nov.  25, 

1855 ;  died  Jan-  9»  l&79' 
Bardet,  Tristram  (June  1850- March,  1854),  ordained  Dec.  17, 

1853;  served  the  Mission  in  the  Mauritius,  and  died  Nov.  8,    1884. 
Barry,  Michael  (Sep.  1841-2),  ordained  Jan.  9,  1842. 

Barry,  Thomas  (Fe.b.   1863 -June    1864),   ordained   June  5, 

1864  ;  died  Sep.  27,  1868. 
Barry,    William,    D.D.    (Jan.   1865  -  Oct.    1868);     ordained 

May  4,  1873  ;  Professor  of  Theology  (1877-1880). 
Bathurst,  Stuart  Eyre  Canon  (Jan.  1854  -  Sep.  1854),  ordained 

Aug.  24,  1854  :  Canon  of  Birmingham. 

Beale,  Herbert  (1885-6),  ordained  Feb.  6,  1887. 

Beck,  Luke  (April  1837-1840),  died  July  4,  1874. 

Beech,  Augustine  (Sep.  1875-1882),  ordained  July  8,  1882. 

*Belisy,  Emilius  (1843-1845);  Professor  of  French;  ordained 

March  10.  1838  ;  died  in  1873. 

Benson,  William  (Aug.  1813-1818),  ordained  June  16,  1818. 
Bent,  George    (Jan.  1831-1839),    ordained  March   16,    1839; 

died  Oct.  31,  1871. 
Bethell,  Augustus  Canon  (April  1851-1855),  ordained  Feb.  28, 

1863  ;  Canon  of  Southwark. 

*Bew,  John,   D.D.   (b    1755);    President   (1794-1808);    died 
Oct.  25,  1829  ;  aged  75. 

Bick,  Joseph  (Aug.  1826-1830),  ordained  Dec.  18,  1830;   died 

June  25,  1860. 

Birks,  Henry  (1846-7),  ordained  in  1849;  died  Oct.  24,  1864. 
Blackall,  Augustus    (Aug.   1873-5),    ordained  Nov.  7,  1875  ; 

died  March  u,  1879. 
Blackman,  William  Canon  (1860-1),  ordained  Dec.  17,  1864; 

Provost  of  Northampton. 

Bleasdale,  John,  D.D.  (1843-4),  ordained  Aug.  25,  1844. 
*Bodley.    William    Hamilton,   M.A ,    Professor    of    Theology 

(1863-1870). 

Bolton,  Samuel  (1864-7),  ordained  June  29,  1867. 
Bond,  James  (Jan.  1841-4),  ordained  Nov.  22,  1846;    Prefect 

of  Discipline  (1847-50)  ;  died  Aug.  26,  1887. 
Bonus,  John,  D.D.  (1847-8),  ordained  Sept.  1851. 
Bonner,  Joseph  (Jan.  1863-7),  ordained  Feb.  17,  1867. 
Bowdon,    Joseph     (Sep.    1794-6),    ordained  Sep.    5,   1805; 

President  of  Sedgley  Park  (1836-1844)  ;  died  Dec.  4,  1844. 


APPENDIX.  9 

Bowen,  Charles  (Jan.  1853-6),  ordained  July  20,  1856. 

Bradshaw,  James  W.,   (C.SS.R.)    (Oct.    1845-8),    ordained 

Dec.  23,  1848. 
*Bricknell,  Gaspar  (1795-6);  Professor  of  French  ;  died  May  6, 

1833- 
Broder,  Nicholas  (March  1871-3),  ordained  April  12,  1873. 

Browne,  James  William  (Sep.  1882-5),  ordained  Jan.  24,  1886. 

Brownlow,  John  (Aug.  1816-1820),  ordained  Aug.  23,  1820; 

died  March  4,  1888. 
Bunn,    Walstan,  (Jan.   1839-1841),    ordained  Mar.    20,   1847. 

died  Jan.  24,  1878. 

Buquet,  Eugene  Canon  (Jan.-Oct.  1852)  (1859-1860),  ordained 
June  3,  1860  ;  Provost  of  Shrewsbury. 

Burke,  David  (Jan.  1867-1870),  ordained  in  1870. 
Burns,  John  (Sep.  1874-1876),  ordained  March  17,  1877. 
Butcher,  Edmund  (O.  C.)  (1861),  ordained  Aug.  8,  1869. 
Butland,  Benjamin  (Aug.  1844-1850),  ordained  Nov.  30,  1850. 
Butler,  William  (Jan.  1853-1864),  ordained  March  15,  1862. 
Butler,  Theobald,  (S.J.)  (Oct.  1844-1846). 
Caiman,  Alfred  John  (Sep.  1864-1881),  ordained  Dec.  21,  1878. 
Carton,  George  (Sep.  1879-1880),  ordained  July  25,  1880. 

Caswell,  John  (Sep.  1862-1883),  (l885-  )  ordained  Sep.  n, 
1870;  Prefect  of  Studies  (1879-1880)  (1882-3);  Vice-President 
(Jan.,  1885). 

Cavalli,  Dominic  (O.  C.)  (1845-6),  ordained  June  6,  1846. 

Challoner,  John  (Nov.  1812-1815),  ordained   Sep.  28,  1815; 

died  Dec.  4,  1836. 
Chandler,  Charles,  (S.J.)  (1872-3)  ordained  Sep.  24,  1882. 

Chattaway,  Arthur  L.  (Sep.  1875-1877),  ordained  Sep.  22, 
1877. 

Cheadle,  Francis  Canon,  D.D.  (Aug.  1829-1842),  ordained 
Sep.  20,  1834 ;  Procurator  (1832-4) ;  Professor  of  Theology 
(1836-40) ;  Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  Sep.  23,  1886. 

Cholmondeley,  Charles  Canon  (1850-52)  (1862-64),  ordained 
Aug.  21,  1870  ;  Canon  of  Shrewsbury. 

Clarke,  Charles  Cowley  (Sep.-Xmas.  1864),  ordained  Sep.  25, 

1881. 
Clarke,  Monsignor  J.  J.  Canon,  D.D.  (1856),  ordained  March 

30,  1856  ;    Provost  and  Vicar-General  of  Clifton. 
2 


10  APPENDIX. 

Clarke,   John  (Jan.    1853-1861),   ordained  March  29,   1861  ; 

died  Jan.  n,  1875. 
Clifford,  George  (S.J.),  (1835-1837),  ordained  Sep.  28,  1844. 

*Coghlan,  Thomas  Lloyd,  M.A.  (Sep.  1866-1872),  died  Nov. 

21,  1873. 

Coleman,  Patrick  (Sep.  1875-1879),  ordained  April  27,  1879. 
Collingridge,  Ignatius  (1828-1831),  ordained  Dec.  6,  1831. 
Cologan,  William  H.  (Sep.  1863-1866),  ordained  Sep.  20,  1873. 
Corbishley,  George  (C.  SS.  R.),  (1856),  ordained  Oct.  18,  1862. 
Coxon,  Septimus  Canon  (Aug.  1859-1863),  ordained  Mar.  15, 

1862  ;  Canon  of  Clifton. 

Craddock,  Alban  (Jan.  1854-1859),  ordained  April  9,  1859. 
Crane,  Abraham  B.  (Sep.  1866-1874),  ordained  Aug.  9,  1874. 
Crewe,  Michael  (Aug.  1836-1846),  ordained  Sep.  19,  1846; 

died  April  7,  1850. 

Crispin,  Neil  (Aug.  1846-1854),  ordained  Dec.  19,  1857;  died 

Jan.  8,  1880. 
Dalton,  John  Canon  (1830-1840),  ordained  April   4,    1840; 

died  Feb.  15,  1874  ;  Canon  of  Northampton. 
Dalton,  John  P.  (1867-1880)  (1882-1883),  ordained  Apr.  23, 

1876. 
Daly,  James  C.  (1856-1860),  ordained  Feb.   12,   1860;    died 

June  4,  1864. 
Daly,  Joseph  J.  (Dec.  1858-1867),  (1880-1884),  ordained  March 

26,  1864  ;  Vice-President  (Oct.  i88o-Xmas.  1884). 
Daniel,  Joseph  Canon  (Aug.  1825-36),  ordained  Mar.  19,  1836; 

Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  Feb.  26,  1878. 

Davenport,  Louis  (C.  SS.  R.),  (1867-69),  ordained  Sep.  29, 

1884. 
Davies,  Henry  B.  Canon  (Nov.  i844-Mid.  1865),  ordained  May 

17,    1856;     Prefect    of    Studies    (1859-63):    Professor   of   Moral 

Theology  (1863-65)  ;  Canon  of  Birmingham. 

*  Davies,    Peter    (1848-49),    Professor     of    Moral     Theology 

(1848-49). 

Davis,  George  (O.S.B.)  (1840-1),  ordained  June  2,  1855. 
Day,  James  (Aug  i856-Xmas.'i856,),  ordained  Dec.  12,  1856. 

De  Betham,  Frederick   (S.J.)   (1840-1),    ordained   in    1845  '• 

died  Feb.  9,  1886. 
De  Burgh,  Hubert,  M.A.  (Aug.  1 860-61),  ordained  Feb.  23, 

1861. 


APPENDIX.  1 1 

Deery,  Peter  (Sep.  1874-75),  ordained  Sep.  19,  1875. 
Delerue,  Amadeus  (Jan.  1849-51),  ordained  Feb.  19,  1853. 
Delerue,  Edmund  (Jan.  1851-52),  ordained  Dec.  26,  1857. 
D'Hooghe,  Camflle  (Sep.  1880-82),  ordained  June  n,  1882. 
Dixon,  Joshua  (1848  9),  ordained  Oct.  18,  1849. 
Dodsworth,  Cyril  (C.SS.R.)(  1862-63),  ordained  Oct.  M,  1870. 
Doherty,  James  (Aug.   1851-54),  ordained  Aug.    24,    1854. 
Dolan,  Michael  (Oct.  1879-81),  ordained  April  16,  1881. 
Douglas,  Lord  Archibald  (1865-66),  ordained  June  10,  1876. 
Dowling,  John  P.  (Aug.  1851-54),  ordained  June  10,  1854. 
Doyle,  Arthur  (1884-85),  ordained  April  4,  1885. 
Duckett,  George  (1849-50),  ordained  June  14,  1851. 

Duckett,  James  (Aug.  1816-20),  ordained  March  17,  1820; 
died  May  30,  1864. 

Duckett,  Thomas  Canon  (Aug.  1846-60),  ordained  Sep.  22, 

1855  ;  Prefect  of  Discipline  (1853-60)  ;  Canon  of  Birmingham. 
Duggett,  Christopher  (1857),  ordained  June  21,  1857. 

Dunne,  John  K.  Canon  (1827-28),  ordained  Feb.  1828; 
Canon  of  Birmingham  ;  died  Jan.  18,  1881. 

Dwane,  Michael  (Jan.  1859-65),  ordained  May  27,  1871. 
;;Elwes,  Henry  (1841-42).  Professor  of  French  ;  died  Jan.  1878. 

English,   Monsignor  Edgar,     D.D.,    D.C.L.    (Sep.    1861-69) 

(1872-75)  ;  ordained  Oct.  14,  1877. 
Estcourt,  Edgar  Edmund  Canon,  M.A.  (1849-52),  ordained 

Sep.    18,    1852  ;    Canon    and    CEconomus   of    Birmingham ;    died 

April  17,  1884. 

Eyre,  William  (S.J.)  (Aug.  1844-47),  ordained  June  12,  1853. 

Faduilhe,  Alfred  (Aug.  1857-61),   ordained  June  29,    1861  ; 

and  served  the  Mission  in  the  Mauritius. 
Fairfax,  Francis  (Aug.  1829-33),  ordained  June  i,  1833. 

Fauvel,  Theodore  Canon   (April  1823-30),  ordained  Dec.  18, 

1830  ;  Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  Jan.  9,  1865. 
Fenn,  Edward  (Jan.  1853-62),  ordained  Dec.  21,  1862. 

Fennelly,  William  (1855),  ordained  Dec.  30,  1855;  died 
Nov.  10,  1887. 

FitzGerald,  John  (Sep.  1849-51),  died  April  8,  1865. 

Flanagan,  Thomas  Canon  (Jan.  1833-50),  Prefect  of  Studies 
(1847-50),  (Aug.  iSss-Mid.  1854)  (Mar.  i8s8-Mid.  1859);  Canon 
of  Birmingham;  died  July  21,  1865. 


12  APPENDIX. 

Flanagan,  Thomas  J.    (Nov.  1844-53),   ordained  in    1854; 

died  Nov.  2,  1871. 
Fogarty,  Patrick  (Sep.  1869-71),  ordained  Aug.  24,  1871. 

Fordham,  Edwin  (O.C.)  (1845-47),  ordained  Sep.  18,  1847  ; 

died  March  31,  1851. 
Formby,  Henry,  M.A.  (1846-47),  ordained   Sep.    18,    1847  ; 

died  April  12,  1884. 
Fox,  Joseph  (1827-30),  ordained  June  5,  1830;  died  Dec.  10, 

1835- 
Fox,  Thomas  Canon  (1849-50),  ordained  in  1852;  Canon  of 

Northampton  ;  died  Jan.  18,  1881. 
Frachon,  Clement  (1854-55)  (Mid.  i856-Xmas.  1856),  ordained 

Furniss,  John  (C.  SS.  R.)  (1822-24),  ordained  June  14,  1834; 
died  Sep.  16,  1865. 

Gaffney,  Patrick  (1873-74). 

Galton,  Arthur  H.  (May  1878-80)  (1881-84)  ordained  Dec.  18, 
1880. 

*Garroni,  Horatius  (1848),  Librarian,  Professor  of  Italian. 

Gascoyne,  John  (Sep.  1818-34),    ordained    March    i,    1828; 

Procurator  (1829-30)  ;  died  Oct.  9.  1880. 
Gates,  Robert  (Sep.  1818-23),  ordained  Aug.  22,  1823;  died 

May  27,  1876. 

Gavois,  Amadeus  (July  1853-57),  ordained  April  19,  1857. 

Gibbons,  John  (1852-56),  ordained  Dec.  23,  1854;  died 
Jan.  28,  1888. 

Giblin,  James  (1881-82),  ordained  July  8,  1882. 

Giles,  Chichele  (Feb.  1864-68)  (1883-87),  ordained  May    29, 

1887. 
Glancey,  Michael  F.  (Sep.  1869-72)  (1877-     ),  ordained  Dec 

22,  1877  ;  Prefect  of  Discipline,  April  5,  1888. 
Glenie,    John    Canon    (1850-51),    ordained   Oct.    26,    1851; 

Canon  of  Southwark  ;  died  June  23,  1878. 
Gloag,  Thomas  (May  1842-49),  ordained  Nov.  25,  1855  ;  died 

July  5,  1865. 

Glossop,  Samuel  (Sep.  1868-72),  ordained  March  30,  1872. 
Golden,  Patrick  (1858-59),  ordained  March  30,  1859. 
Gore,  Henry  (Sep.  i887-June  1888),  ordained  June  29,  1888. 

Greaney,  William  (Aug.  1855-63)  (1877-80),  ordained  May  25, 
1863;  Vice-President  (Sep.  l877-Oct.  1880)  ;  Administrator  of  the 
Cathedral,  Birmingham. 


APPENDIX.  13 

*Green,  Henry  (1845-47),  ordained  April  25,  1848  ;  Professor  of 

Classics  ;  died  Nov.  23,  1869. 

Green,  Thomas  Lawrence,  D.D.  (Aug.  1813-28)  (1844-47), 
ordained  Feb.  25,  1825;  Procurator  (1825-28);  Prefect  of  Discipline 
(1844-47);  died  Feb.  27,  1883. 

Grehan,  John  (S.J.)  (Sep.  1829-36),  died  May  30,  1865. 

Grenside,  John  (1845-46),  ordained  in  1846;   died  Dec,  29, 

1867. 
Griffin,   James  Canon  (Aug.  1828-44) ;    ordained  March    16, 

1839;  Canon  of  Nottingham. 

Grosvenor,  William  (1844-51)  (1860-62),  ordained  Sep.    20, 

1851  ;  Vice-President  (1860-62). 

Gubbins,  William  (1840),  ordained  June  13,  1840. 
Hackett,  John  (Feb.  1872-73),  ordained  March  9,  1873. 

Haigh,  Daniel  H.,  M.A.,  F.R.S.  (1846-48)  (1877-79),  ordained 
April  8,  1848  :  died  May  10,  1879. 

Hall,    Henry  (Aug.  1822-30),   ordained   June   5,    1830;    died 

July  9,  1878. 
Hall,  Walter  (1857-58),  ordained  March  20,  1858. 

Hawksford,  John  A.  Canon,  D.D.  (Aug.  1850-68)  (1870-80), 
ordained  Dec  19,  1859  ;  Prefect  of  Studies  (1863-68)  (1870-77)  ; 
President  (July  i877-Oct.  1880),  Canon  of  Birmingham  ;  President 
of  St.  Wilfrid's  College.  Cotton. 

Hazeland,  Richard  (1866  68),  ordained  Dec.  19,  1868. 
*Heider,  Conrad  (1877-79),  Professor  of  German.     R.I. P. 
Hendren,  Philip  J.  (Jan.  1852-56),  ordained  Dec.  20,  1856. 

Heneage,  Henry  Pelham,  M.A.  (Sep.  1821-25)  (Sep.  1841-52), 

ordained  March  n.  1843  :  died  Jan.  3,  1875. 
Higgins,  John  F.,  M.A.  (Jan.  1873-75),  ordained  Sep.  18,  1875. 

Higginson,  Nathaniel,  M.A.  (Sep.  1882-85),  ordained  Sep.  19, 
1885. 

Hipwood,  Charles  (O.  Cist.)  (Jan.  1853-60),  ordained  Dec.  22, 

1860. 
Hodson,    Edward  (Oct.    1834-41),    ordained  Oct.    28,    1841  ; 

died  April  26.  1879. 
Holcroft,  Vincent  O.  (Sep.  i864-Xmas.  1881),  ordained  April 

II,  1868;  Procurator  (1866-81)  ;  CKconomus  of  Birmingham. 

Holden,  John  (S.J.)  (Aug.   1823-25),   ordained  Oct.  6,    1825  j 

died  June  30.  1861. 
Holden,  Patrick  (1866),  ordained  July  26,  1866. 


14  APPENDIX. 

Hawkins,  Joseph  P.  (Jan.  1879-80),  ordained  Feb.  2,  1884. 

Hopkins,  Francis  (Aug.  1859-69)  (Oct.  1874-81),  ordained 
March  27,  1869  ;  Prefect  of  Discipline  (1879-80)  ;  Prefect  of  Studies 
(1877-79,  1881). 

Hopkins,  Frederick  (S.J.)  (Aug.  1859-62),  ordained  Sep.  23, 
1877. 

Hopkins,  Henry  (Aug.  1835-44),  ordained  Sep.  18,  1847. 

Hopwood,  John  (Sep.  1875-77)  (1883-85)  (1887-     ),  ordained 

Dec.  23,  1882  :  Professor  of  Theology  (Oct.  1887.) 
Horgan,  Michael  Peter  (Feb.  1863-65),  ordained  Oct.  9,  1870. 

Hubbard,  Richard  (Sep.   1809-11),  ordained  Nov.   14,  1811; 

died  May  23,  1836. 
Huddleston,  Edward  Canon  (Feb.  1815-26),  ordained  March 

1826;  Canon  Penitentiary  of  Birmingham  ;  died  Dec.  17,  1871. 

Hulme,  Monsignor  Benjamin  (Sep.  1824-30),  ordained  Dec.  18, 

1830;  died  Aug.  9,  1852. 
Hunter,    Evan    Haynes,  M.A.   (March    1862-65),    ordained 

March  II,  1865  ;  died  Oct.  7,  1874. 
Husenbeth,  Frederick  Charles  Canon,  D.D.  (Aug.  1814-20), 

ordained  Feb.  25,  1820  :  Provost  and  Vicar-General  of  Northampton  : 

died  Oct.  31.  1872. 

Ilsley,    William    (Dec.    1827-36),    ordained    July    16,    1836; 

died  March  21,  1857. 
*Inhetveen,  John  (1862-63),  Professor  of  German. 

Ivers,    Bernard  Canon    (1832-35),    ordained  Sep.    iy,    1835  : 

Canon  of  Birmingham  ;  died  June  19,  1880. 
Janssens,  John  (1881-82),  ordained  June  19,  1886. 

Jeffries,  George  Canon  (Aug.    1829-39),   ordained  March  16, 
1839;  Canon  and  Vicar-General  of  Birmingham  ;  died  Oct.  28,  1876. 

Jenkins,  James  (Aug.  1857-60),  ordained  June  3,  1860;  died 

Feb.  3,  1869. 
Jinks,  George  (Feb.  1815-20),  ordained  Sep.   21,    1820;  died 

Aug.  29,  1833. 

Johnson,  Stephen  (Jan.  1861-71),  ordained  Aug.  20,  1865. 
Jones,  Charles  (Aug.   1808-9)  (J8i7-2o),  ordained    April  28, 

1820  ;  died  Nov.  4,  1827. 
Jones,  Frederick  (S.J.)  (Feb.  1871-74),  ordained  Dec.  6,  1874. 

Jones,  James  Canon  (April  1811-22),  ordained  May  31,  182.'  : 

Provost  of  Nottingham  :  died  May  19.  1861. 
Jones,  James  F.  Canon  (Jan.  1822-30),  ordained  June  5,  1830  ; 

Canon  of  Birmingham  ;  died  Mmxh  27,  1860. 


APPENDIX.  15 

Jones,  John   (Aug.   1808-15),  ordained  Sep.   28,   1815;  died 

March  n,  1852. 
Jones,   Samuel  (Aug.   1808-13),   ordained    March    12.    1813; 

died  Aug.  8,  1833. 
Jones,  William  (Feb.    1809-10),  ordained  March,  1810;  died 

Aug.  21.  1868. 
Kavanagh,  Philip  (Aug.   1851-54),  ordained  April   t,    1854; 

died  Jan.  23,  1883. 
*  Keating,    Frederick   W.,    Professor    of    Theology   (1884-87), 

ordained  Oct.  12.  1882. 
Keen,  Walter  (Oct.    1830-40),   ordained   Dec.   21,   1840;  died 

Feb  7,  1877. 
Kelly,  Joseph,  B.A.  (Aug.  1838-47)  (Feb.  1849-58),  ordained 

March  3,  1849  :  Prefect  of  Discipline  (1850-52)  ;  Prefect  of  Studies 

(1850-53)  (1854-58). 

Kelly,  William  (1882-84),  ordained  Dec.  21,  1884. 
Kennard,    Charles  Canon,   M.A.   (April  1870-73),  ordained 

Dec.  21,  1872  ;  Canon  of  Clifton. 
Kennedy,  John,  B.A.  (April  1839-45),  ordained  May  17,  1845  ; 

died  Aug.  5,  1847. 

Kennedy,  John  (Feb.  1863-66),  ordained  Oct.  8,  1871. 
Kerckhof,    Louis  (1867-1871),  ordained  April  8,   1871:  died 

Jan.  15,  1878. 

Kirsopp,  Francis  (Aug.  1837-49),  ordained  June  2,  1849. 
Knight,  Arthur  (S.J.)  (Jan.  1846-51),  ordained  Sep.  21,  1869. 
Knight,  Thomas  (S.J.)  (Jan.  1841-47,  ordained  Sep.  23,  1866. 

*Koper,  Bernard,   D.D.   (Oct.  i88i-Feb.  1885),   Professor  of 

Theology. 
Lahaye,    Peter   (1851-52),   ordained  Dec.    21,    1852;    died 

June  19,  1867. 
Laken,  Thomas  (Jan.  1810-17),  ordained  Oct.  8,  1817;  died 

Sep.  22,  1832. 
Lambe,  David  (1849-53),  ordained  Feb.  19,  1853;    died  April 

22,  1875. 

Lane,  Matthias  Canon  (1839-43),  ordained  March   n,   1843; 

Canon  of  Northampton  ;  died  Jan.  26.  1886. 
Langdon,  Charles  B.,  M.A.  (1884-85),  ordained  Sep.  21,  1885. 

Law,  William  H.  (Oct.  1865-77),  ordained  Aug.  30,  1877  ;  died 

Feb.  24,  1878. 
Leith,  Thomas  (Aug.  1829-42),  ordained  Sep.  25,  1842  ;  died 

June  30,  1873. 


1 6  APPENDIX. 

Lescher,  Edward  (1850-52)  ordained  Feb.  18,  1855. 

*Logan,  Charles  Francis  Henry,  D.C.L,  b.  1799;  (Dec.  1839- 
48)  :  Vice-President  (1840-46):  President  (1847-48)  ;  died  Dec.  I, 
1884. 

Longman,  Stephen  Canon  (Aug.  1838-44),  ordained  in  1844: 

Canon  of  Northampton  :  died  July  25.  1885. 
Longman,   Thomas   Canon,   B.A.   (Feb.   1834-45),   ordained 

Sep.  7,  1845  ;  Canon  and  Vicar-General  of  Birmingham. 

*Lorrain,  Nicholas  (O.C.)  (1843-45),  ordained  Dec.  19,  1840; 

Professor  of  French  ;  died  July  u,  1873. 
Lynch,  Charles  (S.J.)  (1836-37),  ordained 
Lynch,  Hugh  (1854-55),  ordained  June  10,  1855. 
Lyons,  Patrick  (1867),  ordained  Dec.  8,  1867. 

McCabe,  Charles  (Sep.  1866-71),  ordained  Aug.  24,  1871; 
died  April  10,  1883. 

McCarrick,  Francis  (1883-84),  ordained  Sep.  20,  1884. 
McCartney,  Edward  (1867-70),  ordained  Sep.  u,  1870. 

McCave,  James  Canon,  D.D.  (Aug.  1854-58),  ordained  Dec.  21, 
1862 ;  Rector  of  St.  Bernard's  Seminary  :  Canon  Theologian  of 
Birmingham. 

McDonald,  Thomas  (Aug.  1851-58),  ordained  Oct.  28,  1858; 

died  July  2,  1875. 
McDonnell,  Thomas  M.  Canon  (March  1806-17)  (Prefect  of 

Discipline),    ordained    Sep.    19,     1817;    Canon   of    Clifton;    died 

Oct.  25,  1869. 

McElmail,  John  (1881-82),  ordained  March  26,  1883. 
McGahren,  John  (Jan.  1853-60),  ordained  Oct.  7,  1860. 
Mackey,  Daniel  (O.P.)  (1866-68),  ordained  in  1876. 
*McIntyre,  John,   D.D.  (Sep.  1880 -April  1884)  (April  1885- 

Mid.  1886),  Professor  of  Theology. 

McSweeney,  Cornelius  (Sep.  1877-81),  ordained  Sep.  n,  1881. 
Maguire,   Alfred  (Jan.  1825-30),    ordained  Dec.    18,   1830; 

died  April  8,  1875. 

Maguire,  Martin  (Oct.-Nov.  1872),  ordained  Nov.  17,  1872. 
Mahoney,  William  H.  (Sep.  1881-84),  ordained  April  12,  1884. 
Malfait,  Charles  (1862-72),  ordained  Feb.  i,  1863  ;  Prefect  of 

Discipline  (1868-70)  ;  Professor  of  Theology  (1870-72.) 
Mallac,  James  (S.J.)  (1842-43),  ordained 
Manby-Colegrave,  William  (Jan.  1851-57)  (1860-62),  ordained 

in  1863. 


APPENDIX.  1  7 

Mandy,  Joseph  (O.P.)  (Sep.  1864-68),  ordained  June  u,  1877. 
Marsden,  John  (Aug.  1813-16),  ordained  Sep.  20,  1816;  died 

March  22,  1824. 
Marshall,  Henry  J.  (1845),  ordained  ;  died  Aug.  28, 


Martin,    Walter   (Jan.    1853-65),    ordained   March    3,    1860; 

Prefect  of  Discipline  (Feb.  1860-  Jan.  1865)  ;  died  Feb.  12,  1869. 
Martyn,  Francis  (Aug.  1796-1805),  ordained  Dec.  21,   1805; 

died  July  18,  1838. 
Mason,  James  Austin  (Jan.  1821-25),  ordained  Dec.  25,  1826; 

died  Oct.  16,  1844. 

Mayland,  Joseph  (1848-5  2),  ordained  Dec.  22,  1849. 
Meade,  Joseph,  B.A.  (1856-57),  ordained 
Meager,  Alfred  (1877-78),  ordained  Dec.  23,  1876. 

Meynell,   Charles,   D.D.   (Aug.   1845-49),   ordained  in  1856; 

Professor  of  Philosophy  (1856-70)  ;  died  May  3,  1882. 
Middleton,  Robert  C.,  (Sep.  1881-83),  ordained  Sep.  22,  1883. 
Middleton,  Warren  B.  (Oct.  1881-85),  ordained  April  7,  1885. 

*Miettinger,   Florentine   (1856-59),    Professor  of  Music   and 
German  ;  died  March  3,  1868. 

Miles,  George  H.  (Jan.  -Mid.  1884),  ordained  Sep.  20,  1884. 
Millward,  John  A.  (1856-60),  ordained  in  1861. 

Mitchell,  John  Canon  (Aug.  1826-37),  ordained  Feb.-i8,  1837; 

Canon  of  Clifton. 
Moloney,  Timothy  S.  (1884-85),  ordained  Aug.  10,  1885. 

Montgomery,  George,  M.A.  (1845-49),  ordained  April  7, 
1849;  died  March  7,  1871. 

Moore,  Algernon  (1864),  ordained  in  1864;  died  July,  1880. 

Moore,  Monsignor  Clement  Harington,  M.A.  (1872-75), 
ordained  May  16,  1875. 

Moore,  James  Canon  (Sep.  1830-40),  ordained  April  4,  1840  ; 

Canon  of  Birmingham  ;  died  May  29,  1873. 
Moore,  John  Canon,  D.D.  (Aug.  1821-39),  (T848-53),  ordained 

April  7,    1832  ;  Prefect  of  Studies  (1832-39)  ;  President  (1848-53)  ; 

Canon  of  Birmingham;  died  June  21,  1856. 

Morgan,  George,  D.D.  (Sep.  i,  1818),  ordained  March  i,  1828  ; 
Professor  of  Theology  (1849)  (1851-59);  Vice-President 
(1846-47)  ;  President  (Dec.  1859  -  July  1860)  ;  Canon  Theologian 
of  Birmingham;  died  Nov.  25,  1861. 


1 8  APPENDIX. 

Morris,  Frederick  (Aug.  1860-69),  ordained  March  27,  1869. 

Morris,  John  Brande,  M.A.  (1846-48),  ordained  April  8,  1848; 

died  April  9,  1880. 
Morris,  Walter  (Sep.  1866-71),  ordained  April  8,  1871. 

Mostyn,  Francis  E.  (April  1871-79),  ordained  Sep.  14,  1884, 
Public  Man  (Sep.  1878 -July  1879),  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1880. 

Murphy,  Thomas  (Feb.  1872-73.) 

Nary,  James  (1861-64),  ordained  March  26,  1864. 

Neave,  Richard  (Oct.  1870-71),  ordained  July  12,  1874. 

Newton,  George  (Feb.  1866  -Xmas.  1866),  ordained  in  1869; 

died  Dec.  8,  1886. 
Nickolds,  Monsignor  John  (Aug.  1826-44),  ordained  Mar.  31, 

1838;  Procurator  (1834-44);  died  Aug.  10,  1886. 
*Nock,  John  (Jan.  i88i-Mid.  1881). 

Norris,  Henry  (Jan.  1868  -  Oct.  1874),  ordained  April  12,  1873. 
Norris,  John  (Aug.  1844-45),  ordained  March  24,  1847. 
North,  Joseph  Canon  (Aug.  1833-35),  ordained  Sep.  19,  1835; 

Canon  of  Southwark  ;  died  Feb.  26,  1885. 
*Northcote,  James    Spencer   Canon,    D.D.,   M.A.,    b.   1821 

( 1860-77) ;  Vice-President  (Jan.-July  1860);  President  (July  1860-77); 

Provost  of  Chapter  of  Birmingham. 

O'Brien,  Walter  Page  (Nov.  1875-80),  ordained  March  27, 1880. 
*O'Connell,  Timothy,  D.D.  (April  1840 -Sep.  1842),  Professor 

of  Theology. 

O'Connell,  John  (1839-40),  ordained  R.I.P. 

O'Connor,  Thomas  (Jan.  1830-41),  ordained  Dec.  21,  1841; 

died  Jan.  26,  1861. 

O'Donoghue,  Patrick  (Sep.  1881-82),  ordained  Oct.  8,  1882. 
O'Hanlon,  James  Canon  (Jan.  1861-65),  ordained  Aug.  20, 

1865  ;  Professor  of  Theology  (1872-77)  ;  Canon  of  Birmingham. 
O'Hanlon,  James  (Sep.  1880-83),  ordained  Dec.  22,  1883. 

Oldham,    George   Alfred,    M.A.     (May    1858-60),    ordained 

April  4,  1860  ;  died  Oct.  18.  1875. 

O'Neill,  John  (Sep.  1829-34),  ordained  March  15,  1834. 
O'Neill,  Hugh  (1866-67),  ordained  Feb.  17,  1867. 
Onions,    George    (Aug.  1861-68),   ordained   April   20,    1867; 

died  Sep.  6,  1880. 
O'Reilly,  John  (S.J.)  (Aug.  1850-57),  ordained  Dec.  19,  1857, 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1850. 


APPENDIX.  19 

O'Sullivan,  James  (Aug.  1855-63),  ordained  Dec.  19,  1863; 

died  Nov.  18,  1865. 
O'Sullivan    John    J.    (Nov.    1867-69),    ordained   in   1870; 

died  Jan.  10,  1874. 
O'Sullivan,  Michael  Canon  (Sep.  1837-42),  ordained  Dec.  18, 

1847  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1842;  Canon  of  Birmingham. 
O'Toole,  Aloysius  T.  (Sep.  1879  -  Dec.  1880).  ordained  May  26, 

1888,  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1882,  43rd  in  Honours. 
O'Toole,  Patrick  (Sep.  1879-82),  ordained  July  25,  1887. 
*Pagani,    John    B.,    D.D.    (O.C.),    ordained   Dec.    20,    1828; 

Professor  of  Theology  (1842-43)  ;  died  Dec.  26,  1860. 
Pannier,  Bernard  (Jan.  1857-60),  ordained  Feb.  12,  1860. 
Pare,  Henry  J.  (1863-66),  ordained  March  31,  1866. 
*  Parker,  Joseph  (1888),  ordained  May  22,  1875. 
Pate,    Robert    (Jan.    1 866-81),    ordained    April    16,     1881  ; 

Public  Man  (Sep.-Dec.  1871),  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  June,  1871. 
Pearson,    Charles    (Jan.    1853-67),   ordained  June   2,    1860; 

Procurator  (1861-66) ;  died  May  17,  1868. 

Perry,  John  (1825-34),  ordained  July  5,  1834;  died  Sep.  2,  1860. 
Petre,  Monsignor  the  Lord  (1865-66),  ordained  May  30,  1874. 

Phelan,  Richard  (Aug.  1828 -Jan.  1848),  Prefect  of  Discipline 

1830-42  ;  ordained  Dec.  23,  1843;  died  Nov.  18,  1851. 
Plancarte,     Antonio    (Aug.    1856-60)    (1861-62),    ordained 

in  1865. 
*Potts,    Thomas    (b.     1754),     Vice-President    (1794-1808); 

President  (1808-15)  ;  died  Dec.  5,  1819. 

Pudney,  Thomas  (Sep.  1881-84),  ordained  Jan.  18,  1885. 
Quick,   John   Francis,   Procurator  (1808-18);    President   and 

Professor  of  Theology  (Dec.  1815-18)  ;  died  Aug.  13,  1818. 
Ramsay,  David  Shaw  (1866-     ),  ordained  in  1867. 
Reader,  Henry  (O.P.)  (Sep.  1868-70),  ordained  Sep.  22,  1878. 
Redington,  Joseph  (O.Cist.)  (1863-65),  ordained  Dec.  24, 1865. 
Richardson,  Richard  (O.C.)  (1847-48),  ordained  June  5.  1852. 
Richmond,  Henry  Canon  (Aug.  1816-27),  ordained  March  27, 

1827  ;  Procurator  (1853-60)  ;  Canon  of  Birmingham;  died  Feb.  26, 

1867. 

Richmond,  Robert  (Aug.  15,  1796-1806),  ordained  March  14, 

1807  ;  Vice-President  (1830-38)  ;  died  June  20,  1844. 

Richmond,  William  (Aug.    1813-24),  ordained  June   1824; 
died  Nov.  11,  1848. 


20  APPENDIX. 

Rigby,  James  (1866-70),  ordained  Sep.  n,  1870. 

Revill,    Thomas   (Nov.    1830-44),    ordained  June  5,    1841; 

Prefect  of  Discipline  (1843-44)  ;  died  Sep.  20,  1878. 
Riley,  Ferdinand  Canon   (Aug.   1851-58)  (1860-63),  ordained 

April  4,  1863  ;  Canon  of  Portsmouth  ;  Public  Man   (Aug.  i8s6-Jan. 

1857  ;  and  March  -  Aug.  1857). 

Robinson,  James  (Feb.  1863-66),  ordained  July  15,  1866. 

Robinson,  Joseph  (Aug.  1860-72);  ordained  March  27,  1869; 
Prefect  of  Discipline  (1870-1872.) 

Robinson,    Walter   Croke,    M.A.    (Sep.   1872-75),   ordained 

May  16,  1875. 

Roskell,  Philip  G.  (April  1870-78),  ordained  June  7,   1884, 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1877. 
ROSS,  John  Canon  (Aug.  1850-57),  ordained  Feb.  24,  1857; 

Canon  of  Shrewsbury. 
Ryan,    Arthur    (Jan.     1866  -  70)     (Sep.     1871  -  Mid.    1872) 

(April  1873-76),  ordained  Dec.  17,  1876;  President  of  St.  Patrick's 

College,  Thurles  ;  Public  Man  (Jan.  -July  1869). 

Ryan,  Hugh  (S.J.)   (Aug.  1855-62),  ordained  Sep.  22,  1877; 

Public  Man  (Aug.  1859 -Aug.  1860),  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1862. 
Ryder,    Charles   (Jan.    1855-63),  ordained    Dec.    21,    1867; 
Prefect   of    Discipline    (Mid.   1872  -  Xmas    1872),    Good    Conduct 
Medal,  1863. 

Ryder,  Cyril  (C.SS.R.)  (Jan.  1855-63),  ordained  Dec.  21,  1867; 

Public  Man  (Aug.  1862- Aug.  1863),  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1863. 

Scanlan,  Edward  (Aug.  1861-69),  ordained  March  27,  1869; 

Prefect  of  Discipline  (Feb.  1873-  April  1876). 
Schmitz,  Emilius  (1880),  ordained  March  27,  1880. 
Schofield,  Richard  (1851-52),  ordained  June  5,  1852. 
*Schobel,  Victor,  D.D.,  Professor  of  Theology  (Sep.  1886-     ). 
Scott,  Alexander  (1877),  ordained  Sep.  24,  1881. 

Scott,  Christopher  Canon  (Aug.  1855-56),  ordained  April  19, 

1862  ;  Canon  and  Vicar-General  of  Northampton. 
Scott,  Edward  (April  1886-87),  ordained  Sep.  27,  1887. 
*Schwers,  Hermann,  D.D.  (1841-42),  Professor  of  German. 
Scratton,   James,    B.A.    (1854),   ordained   at    Rome;    died 

April  7,  1884. 
Seager,  Ignatius  (1868-69),  ordained  Nov.  28,  1869;  died 

Dec.  23,  1870. 
Searle,  AJonsignor  Canon  (1841-47),  ordained  April  25,  1843; 

Canon  of  Westminster. 


APPENDIX.  21 

*Signini,  Fortunatus  (O.C.)  (Oct.  1842 -June  1843),  ordained 

Oct.  28,  1841  ;  Professor  of  Italian. 

Shortland,    John   Canon,    M.A.    (Oct.    1853-55),    ordained 
Sep.  22,  1855  ;  Canon  of  Plymouth. 

Sibthorpe,  Richard  Waldo,  M.A.  (Nov.   1841-42),  ordained 
May  21,  1842  ;  died  April  10,  1879. 

*Sierp,  B.  (1874)  ;  a  Professor. 

Silvester,  Abraham  (O.P.)  (1863),  ordained  Feb.  20,  1869. 
Simmons,  Gilbert  (Cong.  Paul.)    (March  1872-74),  ordained 

Simpson,     Robert    (1845-46),    ordained    in    1851;     died 

March  24,  1887. 
Sing,   Monsignor  Thomas  Canon   (Aug.  1824-34),   ordained 

July  5,  1834;  Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  Dec.  12,  1882. 

Skerrett,  Hyacinth  (Aug.  1857-61)  (Jan.  1871-74),  ordained 

May  3,  1874. 
Slaughter,    Monsignor   Edward    (Aug.    1857-59),    ordained 

Jan.  24, 1869. 
Smith,   Bernard  Canon,   M.A.   (1844-47),  ordained  April  3, 

1847  ;  Canon  of  Northampton. 
Smith,  George  (Aug.  1859-68),  ordained  April  u,  1868. 

Sole,   Samuel  H.  (Aug.    1862-80),   ordained  Sep.   n,    1870, 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1865. 
Souter,    Joseph    Henry  Canon    (Jan.  18,  1838  -  Mid.   1841) 

(Aug.  1846-56).   ordained  March  27,  1852  ;  President  (Jan.  1885)  ; 

Canon  of  Birmingham 

*Spencer,     Hon.     George    (Father    Ignatius)    (Cong.    Pass.) 
(May  1839-  Dec.  1846),  ordained  May  26,  1832  ;  died  Oct.  i,  1864. 

Spencer,  Louis   (Sep.   1876-     ),    ordained  Dec.  20,    1884; 

Procurator  (Jan.  1885.) 
Sperling,  Alfred  M.  (April  1872-77)  (Sep.  1878-82),  ordained 

April  8,  1882. 
Stacpoole,  Monsignor  the  Marquis  de  (Jan.  1841-42),  ordained 

Stapleton,   Hon.   Robert   (O.P.)   (Sep.    1844-53),    ordained 

June  18,  1859. 
Stevenson,  Joseph,  M.A.  (S.J.)  (Jan.  1870 -72)  (May  1877- 

Mid.),  ordained  April  I,  1872. 
Stoker,  William  (May  1866-71),  ordained  Aug.  24,  1871. 

Stokes,  George  Frederick  Canon,  B.A.  (Jan.  1870-73),  ordained 
June  7,  1873  ;  Canon  of  Northampton. 


22  APPENDIX. 

Stone,  William  M.  (Aug.  1854-79)  (Sep.  1883-  ),  ordained 
March  26,  1864;  Prefect  of  Discipline  (Jan.  1865  -  Mid.  1868) 
(April  1876-  April  1879)  5  Prefect  of  Studies  (1868-70)  (1883-  .) 

Stonor,  Monsignor  the  Hon.  Edmund  Canon,  D.C.L., 
(April  1841-52)  (Sep.  1854-56),  ordained  April  13,  1856  ;  Canon  of 
St.  John  Lateran's. 

Stothert,  J.  A.  (Oct.  1846-47),  ordained  May  7,  1848.  R.I.P. 
Stringfellow,  John  (March  1857-66),  ordained  March  31,  1866. 
Strongitharm,  Monsignor  George  (Aug.  1849-51),  ordained 

Strongitharm,  Solomon  (April  1810- 18),  ordained  March  9, 
1818  ;  died  March  3,  1827. 

*Sutherland,  William,  Prefect  of  Discipline  (Jan.  i88i-Dec.  83). 
Sweeny,  Philip,  D.D.  (1866),  ordained  Dec.  19,  1868. 
Swift,  Robert  (Jan.  1841-50),  ordained  Sep.  21,  1850. 

Talbot,  Monsignor  Hon.  George  (June  1843-46),  ordained 
June  6,  1846 ;  Private  Chamberlain  to  H.H.  Pope  Pius  IX.  ;  died 
Oct.  16,  1886. 

Tandy,  William  Canon,  D.D.  (Aug.  1821  -  26),  ordained 
Jan.  27,  1833";  Professor  of  Theology  (1834-36)  ;  died  Dec.  31.  1886; 
Canon  of  Birmingham. 

Tatum,  George  B.,  M.A.  (Sep.   1885 -Mid.  1888),   ordained 

May  26,  1888. 
Taylor,  Hugh  (June  1872-77),  ordained  Sep.  22,  1877. 

Taylor,   John    (Feb.    1834-42),    ordained  Aug.   1842;    died 

Dec.  2,  1876. 
Tasker,  Charles  Canon    (Aug.   1847  -  Mid.   1858),  ordained 

Dec.  20,  1856  ;  Canon  of  Nottingham. 

Telford,  Thomas,  B.A.  (Jan.  1839-52),  ordained  Aug.  15,  1852  ; 
Prefect  of  Discipline  (1852-53);  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1843; 
B.A.,  1846  ;  died  Jan.  4,  1883. 

Tempest,  Thomas  Canon  (Aug.  1829 -33),  ordained  Dec.  21, 
1833  ;  Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  Nov.  19,  1861. 

Thrower,  Henry  (April  1847-49),  ordained  June  2,  1849. 
Timothy,  William  (1872),  ordained  Feb.  24,  1872, 
Torond,  Louis  F.  (186  -67),  ordained  Dec.  23,  1866. 
Trenor,  James  (Nov.  1854-61),  ordained  in  1864. 
Trenow,  Frederick  (O.P.)  (1850),  ordained  Feb.  19,  1853. 

Trovell,  Michael  Canon  (Aug.  1813-20),  ordained  Sep.  21, 
1820;  Canon  of  Shrewsbury  ;  died  March  26,  1875. 


APPENDIX.  23 

Tunstall,  Charles  (Jan.  1823-26),  ordained  by  Bishop  Turner; 

died  May  12,  1887. 
Tylee,  Monsignor  William  (1866-68),  ordained  Oct.  25,  1868. 

Tysan,  Thomas  (April  1809-12),  ordained  Oct.  9,  1812;  died 
Feb.  4,  1867. 

*Ullathorne,  John,  ordained  Sep.  29,  1872;  Prefect  of  Discipline 
(April  -  Oct.  1879.) 

Van  den  Steen,  Count   (Sep.   1876-82)  (Sep    1885-    ); 

ordained  April  8,  1882. 

Van  Zeller,  Richard  (Aug.  1810-25),  ordained  Feb.  25,  1825; 
Archdeacon  of  Oporto  ;  died  Sep,  21,  1881. 

Vaughan,    Edmund    (C.SS.R.)    (Oct.   1846  -  50),    ordained 

Feb.  22,  1852. 

Vaughan,  Richard  (S.J. )  (Aug.  1835-36),  ordained  in  Sep.  1854. 
*Verron,  Albert  (March  1864-66),  Professor  of  Classics  and  Latin. 
Wade,  Bernard  (Sep.  1873-75),  ordained  July  u,  1880. 
Wake,  Bernard  (Aug.  1862-64),  ordained  Aug.  8,  1875. 

Walker, Henry Martyn,  M.A.  (Jan.  i847-57)(i86i-63)ordained 
April  5,  1851  ;  Professor  of  Classics  and  Moral  Philosophy  (1851-57)  ; 
Professor  of  Moral  Theology  (Feb.  1861-63)  5  died  April  23.  1886. 

Walker,  John  (Jan.  1847-48),  ordained  Dec.  23,  1848;  died 
Sep.  26,  1878. 

Wallace,  Arthur  J.,  M.A.  (Sep.  1864-68),  ordained  Dec.  21, 

1867. 

Walsh,  Joseph  G.  (Sep.  1875-79),  ordained  April  20,  1879. 
Walshe,  John  (1864),  ordained  May  15,  1864. 
Ward,  Bernard  (Jan.  1880-82),  ordained  Oct.  8,  1882. 

*Ward,  Richard  Canon,  M.A.  (1863-64),  Canon  of  Clifton; 

died  Nov.  25,  1869. 
*Waterworth,  James  Canon  (1830-33),  Professor  of  Theology 

(1830-33)  Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  March  28,  1876. 

Watson,    Edward   John,    M.A.    (Sept.    1877-80),    ordained 

Oct.  26,  1879. 
Weedall,  Monsignor  Henry,  D.D.  (b.  1788)  (June  11,1804- 

June    1840)    (1853-59),   ordained    April    6.    1814;    Vice-President 

(1818-25)  ;  President  (1825-40)  (1853-59)  ;  died  at  Oscott  Nov.  7, 

1859  ;  Founder  of  the  New  College. 

Wenham,  John  Canon  (1847-48),  ordained  July  20,  1849 ; 
Provost  of  Southwark. 


24  APPENDIX. 

Wheble,  John  (Aug.  1834-48),  ordained  Dec.  18,  1847  ;  died 

Nov.  3,  1854. 
Whitehouse,    Edward    Canon    (Jan.   1832-34)    (1836-46), 

ordained  June  5,  1841  ;  Canon  of  Nottingham  ;  died  Aug.  3.  1868. 

Whitty,  Stephen  J.,  B.A.  (Jan.  1841-81)  (Sep.  1883-  );  ordained 

Dec.  18,  1880  ;  Public  Man  (1845-46)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1844; 

B.A.,  1846. 
Williams,  Edward  (Jan.  1839-44),  ordained  Sep.  23,  1866; 

Public  Man  (1843-44). 
Williams,  Frederick  (Sep.  1876-     ),  ordained  Jan.  20,  1884; 

Prefect  of  Discipline  (Jan.  1884  -  April  i888);Public  Man  (Jan  -Apr. 


Williams,  George  (Aug.  1854-67),  ordained  March  26,  1864. 

Williams,  James  Canon,  B.A.  (Jan.  1856 -Mid.      ),  ordained 
Canon  of  Clifton. 

Wilson,  William  H.  (Sep.  1872-75),  ordained  Oct.  3,  1875. 
Winder,  Reginald  (Sep.  1886-87),  ordained  Nov.  13,  1887. 
Winter,  Edward  (Jan.  1810-16),  ordained  Sep.  20,  1816;  died 

Aug.  14,  1878. 
Wolseley,  Robert  Cuthbert  (O.P.)  (Sep.  1862-65),  ordained 

Sep.  18, 1875. 

Wyse,  John  (May  1839-44),  ordained  April  27,  1851. 
Young,  Charles  (S.J.)  (Oct.  1813-5),  ordained  Aug.  16,  1840. 


RELIGIOUS  (NOT  PRIESTS.) 

Coxon,  Michael  (O.Cist.)   (Aug.  1856-58),  professed  Nov.  i, 

1876. 
Hairby,  Richard  (O.Cist.)  (Jan.  1849),  professed  Jan.  6,  1853; 

died  Dec.  24,  1857. 
Silvertop,  George  (O.S.B.)  (Sep.  1867-74),  professed  Apr.  20, 

1887  ;  Public  Man  (Jan  -July  1874). 

Manley,  George  (O.S.B.)  (Jan.  1870-73)  (1874-79.) 

drowned  whilst  skating  at  Fort  Augustus,  N.B.,  Nov.  22,  1880  ; 
eldest  son  of  G.  Manley,  Esq  ,  of  Spofforth  Hall.  Yorkshire. 
O'Brien,    John,    (O.Cist.)    (March  1842-43)    (Jan.  1846-47), 
Professed  Feb.  2,  1863. 


APPENDIX.  25 


NOBILITY,  AND  TITLED  STUDENTS. 

Acton,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Sir  John  Dalberg),  ist  Baron,  son  of  Sir 
Ferdinand  Acton,  7th  Bart.,  b.  1834  (May  1843-48),  m.  Maria 
Ludmilla,  d.  of  Count  Arco  Valley,  of  Munich,  Fellow  Lond. 
Univ.,  1866  ;  LL.D.  Oxford,  1887  ;  LL.D.  Camb.,  1888. 

Bedingfeld,  Sir  Henry  George  Paston,  7th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir 
Henry  Richard  Paston  Bedingfeld,  6th  Baronet,  b.  1830  (1841-42), 
late  Captain  West  Norfolk  Militia,  m.  Augusta,  only  child  of 
Edward  C  layering,  Esq. 

Bellew,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Patrick  Bellew),  ist  Baron,  son  of  Sir 

Edward  Bellew,  6th  Bart.,  b.  1798  (Aug.  1810-15),  m.  Anna  Fermina 
Mendoza  y  Rios,  died  Dec.  10,  1866. 

Bellew,  Sir  Henry  Grattan-,  3rd  Baronet,  son  of  Thomas 
Arthur  Grattan- Bellew,  Esq.,  b.  1850  (Oct.  1873  -  77),  Lieut.  5th 
Dragoon  Guards,  m.  Lady  Sophia  Forbes,  d.  of  4th  Earl  of  Granard. 

Blount,  Sir  Edward  Charles,  K.C.B.,  of  Imberhorne,  brother 
of  Walter  Aston  Blount,  b.  1809  (Aug.  16,  iSig-Mid.  1827),  Consul 
at  Paris,  1871  ;  m.  Gertrude  Frances  Jerningham. 

Blount,  Sir  Walter  de  Sodington,  gth  Baronet,  son  of  Sir 
Edward  Blount,  8th  Bart.,  b.  1833  (May  1846-52),  m.  Elizabeth,  d. 
of  James  Williams,  Esq. 

Borromeo,  Count  (Giberto  Borromeo),  of  Isola  Bella  and 
Milan  (Apr.  1875-78),  m.  Rosanna,  d.  of  Count  Leonardi  di  Casalino. 

Borromeo,  Count  Guido  (Apr.  1875-78). 

Boutourlinn,  Count  (Peter)  (Sep.  1870-74). 

Boutourlinn,  Count  Joseph  (Sep.  1870-75). 

Boutourlinn,  Count  Augustine  (Sep.  1874-75). 

Braye,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Alfred  Wyatt  Edgell),  5th  Baron,  son 

of  Henrietta,  4th  Baroness  Braye,  b.    1849   (1869-70),  m.   Cecilia, 
d.  of  W.  Walmesley,  Esq. 

Burke,  Sir  John,  2nd  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Burke,  ist 
Bart ,  of  Marble  Hill  (1802-5),  Colonel  in  the  Army,  m.  Elizabeth 
Mary,  d.  of  Rt.  Hon.  John  Calcraft,  M.P.  ;  died  Sep.  14,  1847. 

Burke,  Sir  Thomas,  3rd  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  John  Burke, 
2nd  Bart.,  b.  1813  (Feb.  1824-30),  Capt  ist  Royal  Dragoons,  M.P. 
co.  Galway,  1847-65,  m.  Lady  Mary  Nugent,  d.  of  gth  Earl  of 
Westmeath  ;  died  Dec.  9,  1875. 

Burke,  Sir  John  Charles,  4th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
Burke,  3rd  Bart.,  b.  1858  (1872-74).  Lieut.  2Oth  Hussars  ;  died 
Aug.  17,  1880. 


26  APPENDIX. 

Camoys,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Francis  Robert  Stonor),  4th  Baron, 
Lord  in  Waiting  to  the  Queen,  son  of  the  Hon.  Francis  Stonor,  and 
grandson  of  the  3rd  Baron  Camoys,  b.  1856  (May  1869-  72),  D.L., 
J.  P.,  n>.  Jessie,  d.  of  R.  Carew,  Esq., 

Clifford-Constable,  Sir  Thomas  Aston,  2nd  Baronet,  son  of 
Sir  Thomas  Hugh  Clifford,  1st  Bart.,  b.  1806  (May  1816-22).  M.P. 
Hedon,  (Yorkshire).  High  Sheriff;  m.,  1st,  Marianne  Chichester ; 
2ndly,  Rosina  Brandon;  died  Dec.  23,  1870. 

Daly,  Sir  Dominic  (1809-12),  Secretary  Lower  Canada,  1827; 
Governor  and  Commander-in-Chief  of  S.  Australia,  1861  ;  died 
Feb.  19,  1868. 

Daly,  Hon.  John  George,  son  of  Sir  Dominic  Daly  (1846-54), 
Magistrate  in  the  Mauritius,  Immigration  Agent-General  for  British 
Guiana;  m.  a  daughter  of  Sir  Allan  McNab  ;  died  May  31,  1881. 

Daly,  Hon.  Dominic  (May  1854-60),  Governor  of  Dent 
Province,  Borneo. 

Day,  Hon.  Sir  John  Charles  (1837-38),  son  of  Charles  Day, 
Esq.,  of  Worcester,  one  of  Her  Majesty's  Justices  of  the  Court  of 
Queen's  Bench,  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1843  ;  B.A.,  1845. 

De  la  Vega,  Count  (Narcissus  Vistahermosa)  (Sep.  1850-54.) 

Delia  Catena,  Count  (Gerard  Strickland)  b.  1861,  eldest  son 
of  Capt.  Walter  Strickland,  R.N.,  and  of  L.  Bonici.  heiress  of 
Sir  Nicholas  Sceberras  Bologna,  Count  della  Catena  (Jan.  1874- 
July  1875),  matriculated  at  the  University  of  Malta  ;  B.A.  Trin.  Coll. 
Camb.  ;  Honours  in  the  Law  Tripos,  1887  ;  called  to  the  Bar  at  the 
Inner  Temple  ;  Member  of  the  Council  of  the  Government  of  Malta ; 
President  of  the  Committee  of  Maltese  Privileges  ;  Lieut.  Cambridge 
University  Riffes,  1886. 

De  Lys,  Marquis  (Aug.  1836-43);  died  Dec.  3,  1884, 
Desain,  Marquis  Lawrence  Cassar,  K.H.R.E.,  C.M.G.,  Kt.  of 

Malta;  Kt.  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  (Oct.  1863-67)  ;  died  Feb.  14, 
1886. 

De  Spangen,  Count  Louis  (1879-80). 

De  Torre  Almiranta,  Vizconde  (Charles  Jimenes)  (1863-65.) 

De  Trafford,  Sir  Humphrey,  2nd  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
De  Trafford.  ist  Bart.,  b.  1808  (1822-23),  J.P.,  D.L.,  and  High 
Sheriff  for  Lancashire,  Lieut.  Royal  Dragoons  ;  m.  Lady  Annette 
Talbot  ;  died  May  4,  1886. 

Dormer,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (John  B.  J.),  i2th  Baron,  son  of  nth 
Baron,  b  1830  (Aug.  1841-48),  Capt.  74th  Regiment ;  m.,  1st, 
Louisa  Frances  Tennyson  ;  2ndly,  Leonie  Fortamps ;  3rdly, 
Constance  d.  of  J.  Bald,  Esq. 


SIR  THOMAS  GRATTAN  ESMONDE,  BART 

M.P.  FOR  SOUTH  DUBLIN  COUNTY. 
(From  a  Photograph  by  W.  Lawrence,  Dublin). 


OSCOTT  PORTRAITS 
NO.  25. 

Members  of  Parliament. 


APPENDIX.  27 

Dormer,  Hon.  James  Charlemagne,  son  of  nth  Baron,  b.  1834 

(Jan.  1841-51),  Brevet-Col.  A.A.  and  Q.M.G.,  S.  District.  D.A.A.G. 

1879,    Malta,  1879,    D.A.Q.M.G.  Cyprus,   1878;   A.Q.M.G.,  S.  E. 

District  1874-78,  D.A.Q.M.G.  at  Horse  Guards,  1869-74,   Col.   131!) 

Regiment ;  Commander-in-Chief  of  Her  Majesty's  Forces  in  Egypt. 

m.  Ella  Frances  d.  of  Sir  Archibald  Alison. 
Dormer,  Hon.  Hubert,  son  of  nth  Baron,  b.  1837  (March 

1848-55),  m.  Mary,  daughter  of  Kenelm  Digby,  Esq. 
Dormer,  Hon.  Henry,  son  of  nth  Baron,  b.  1844  (1854-56) 

(1861-2),  Lieut.  6oth  Rifles  ;  died  Oct.  2  1866. 
Douglas,  Rev.  Lord  Archibald  Douglas,  son  of  7th  Marquis 

of  Queensberry,  b.  1850  (1865-6). 
Ennis,  Sir  John,  and  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  John  Ennis,'ist  Bart, 

b.  1842  (1858-60);  J.P.,  D.L.,  High  Sheriff,  1866,  M.P.  for  Athlone 

1868-74.  1880-84;  died  May  28,  1884. 
Esmonde,  Sir  Thomas  Grattan,  nth  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  John 

Esmonde,    loth  Bart.,  b.   1862  (Sep.    1874-79)  >  M-p-  for  South 

Dublin. 

Feilding,  Rudolph  Viscount,  son  of  8th  Earl  of  Denbigh,  b. 
1859  (Sep.  1871-75),  Lieut.  R.A.  ;  joined  the  Egyptian  Campaign 
of  1882,  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Tel-el-Kebir  ;  m.  Cecilia, 
d.  of  Lord  Clifford. 

Feilding,  Hon.  Everard,  son  of  8th  Earl  of  Denbigh,  b.  1867 

(Sep.  1877-79)  'ate  Lieut.  R.N. 
Ffrench,   Hon.   Michael,  son  of  2nd  Baron  French,  b.  1815 

(1829-31)  ;  died  May  5,  1834. 

FitzGerald,  Sir  James  Dalton,  Qth  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  James 
Fitz-Gerald,  b.  1831  (1848-49),  m.  Blanche  Mary,  d.  of  Hon.  Philip 
Stourton  ;  died  Jan.  15,  1867. 

Fraser,  Simon,  vide  Lovat.. 

Fraser,  Hon.  Alister,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  i4th  Lord  Lovat, 
b.  1831  (May  1842-47),  Lieut.-Col.  late  Scots  Guards,  served  with  his 
regiment  in  the  Crimean  War,  1854-55,  and  was  present  at  the 
battles  of  the  Alma,  Balaclava,  and  Inkerman,  and  took  part  in  the 
siege  of  Sebastopol  (Medal  with  foui  clasps ;  the  Sardinian  and 
Turkish  Medals  ;  5th  class  of  the  Medjidie)  ;  m.  Georgina  Mary 
Heneage ; .  died  Sep.  20,  1885. 

Fraser,    Hon.    George,    son   of    i4th  Lord  Lovat,    b.    1834, 
died  May  4,  1854. 

Gabrielli,  Count  Randolo  (Jan.  1857-1861). 

Gainsborough,  Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  (Charles  William  Francis 
Noel),  3rd  Earl,  son  of  2nd  Earl  of  Gainsborough,  b.  1850  (March 
1866-68),  D.L.,  late  Lieut.  loth  Hussars;  m.,  ist,  Augusta  Mary] 
Berkeley;  2ndly,  Mary  d.  of  James  Arthur  Dease,  Esq.,  of 
Turbotston. 


28  APPENDIX. 

Gerard,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord,  (Sir  Robert  Tolver),  ist  Baron,  son 
of  Sir  John  Gerard,  I2th  Bart.,  b.  1808  (Aug.  1822-26),  Captain 
late  6th  Dragoons ;  Colonel  Lancashire  Hussars  Yeomanry  Cavalry. 
1855  ;  A.D.C.  to  the  Queen  ;  m.  Harriet  Clifton  ;  died  March  15, 
1887. 

Gerard,  Right  Hon.  Lord  (William  Cansfield,)  2nd  Baron,  son 
of  ist  baron,  kb.  1851  (1862-68),  late  Lieut.  2nd  Life  Guards, 
m.  Mary,  d.  of  H.  B.  Milner,  Esq. 

Goethals,  Count  Dorsan  (1884-86). 

Goold,  Sir  Henry,  3rd  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  George  Gool0,  2nd 
Bart.,  b.  1803  (1821-22). 

Gormanston,  Rt.  Hon.  Viscount  (Jenico  William  J.  Preston), 
I4th  Visct.,  K.C.M.G.  (Sep.  -  Dec.  1848),  son  of  I3th  Visct,  b.  1837  ; 
m.  ist,  Hondsmay  Belle w  ;  secondly,  Georgina,  d.  of  F.  Connellan, 
Esq.  ;  Governor  of  the  Leeward  Islands,  1885  ;  served  through  the 
Indian  Mutiny  as  Lieut.  6oth  Rifles  ;  formerly  Chamberlain  to 
Lord  Lieut,  of  Ireland  (Duke  of  Abercorn)  ;  Governor  and  Com- 
mander-in-Chief  of  British  Guiana.  1887. 

Guell  y  Bourbon  y  Rente,  Ferdinand,  son   of  Don  Jose 

Guell  y  Rente,  and  nephew  of  the  King  of  Spain  (Feb.  1864-68). 
Guell  y  Rente,  Enrique,  Marques  del  Pajaro  (1880). 
Howard,  Henry,  vide  Norfolk. 

Howley,  Sir  John,  Kt.,  Q.C.  (1803-7),  son  of  John 
Howley,  Esq.,  of  Rich  Hill.  co.  Limerick,  b.  1789 ;  called  to 
the  Irish  Bar,  1815  ;  Q.C. .  1835  ;  Bencher  of  King's  Inns,  Dublin  ; 
Queen's  First  Serjeant  in  Ireland  :  Chairman  of  Quarter  Sessions, 
co.  Tipperary,  and  one  of  Her  Majesty's  Judges  of  Assize ; 
Knighted  in  1865  ;  m.  Sarah,  d.  of  Stephen  Roche,  Esq..  of  Lota 
Park,  co.  Cork  ;  died  Feb.  I3th,  1866. 

Jerningham,  Henry,  -vide  Stafford. 

Jerningham,  Hon.  Edward,  2nd  son  of  Sir  George  William 
Jerningham,  afterwards  8th  Baron  Stafford,  b.  1804  (Sep.  i8i4-Mid. 
1822)  ;  m.  Marianne  Smythe,  niece  of  Mrs.  Fitzherbert  ;  died  July 
22,  1849. 

Jerningham,  Hon.  Sir  George  Sulyarde,  C.B.,  K.C.H.,  3rd 

son  of  8th  Baron  Stafford,  b.  1806  (Sep.  1815-21)  ;  Attache  at  St. 
Petersburg,  Turin,  Lisbon,  Madras  ;  Sec.  of  Embassy  at  Constanti- 
nople and  Rio  Janeiro  ;  Minister  Plenipotentiary  at  Stockholm  ;  died 
Nov.  18,  1874. 

Jerningham,  Hon.  Charles  William,  4th  son  of  the  8th  Baron 
Stafford,  b.  1807  (Aug.  1816-24),  late  6th  Dragoon  Guards,  died 
April  4,  1884. 


APPENDIX.  29 

Jerningham,  Hon.  William  George,  5th  son  of  the  8th  Baron 
Stafford,  b.  1812  (Aug.  1822-30),  Attache  at  Munich  and  Berlin, 
1834;  at  Vienna.  1836  ;  at  the  Hague,  1839.50  ;  at  Rio  de  Janeiro, 
1850-57  ;  Minister  and  Consul-General  for  Peru ;  m.  Eglantina 
Elmore  ;  died  July  16,  1874. 

Jerningham,  Hon.  Francis,  6th  son  of  8th  Baron  Stafford, 
b.  1814  (Aug.  1822-28),  died  Oct.  10,  1874. 

Jerningham,  Augustus,  vide  Stafford. 

Jerningham,  Hon.  Fitzosbert,  br.  of  Augustus,  Baron  Stafford, 

(Aug.  18.  1843- Mid.  1848). 
Jimenes,  Charles,  vide  De  Torre  Almiranta. 

Knight,   Sir    Arnold,    Kt,   M.D.,   b.    1789   (1805-8),    son    of 

Alexander  Knight,  Esq.,  m.  Harriet,  d.  of  T.  Milnes-Smith,  Esq.  ; 

died  Jan.  12,  1871. 
Langdale,  Hon,  Charles  (Stourton),  son  of  the  i6th  Baron 

Stourton,  b.  1787  (1799-1804),  M.P.  for  Knaresborough  and  Beverley; 

m.,  istr   Charlotte   Mary,   d.  of  6th   Lord  Clifford  of  Chudleigh  ; 

2ndly,  Mary  Constable-Maxwell ;  died  Dec.  I,  1868. 

Louth,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Randal  Pilgrim  Ralph  Plunkett), 
I4th  Baron,  son  of  the  I3th  Baron,  b.  1868  (1879). 

Lovat,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Simon  Fraser),  i5th  Baron,  b.   1828 

(1842-6),  Lord-Lieut,  co.  Inverness  ;  Hon.  Col.,  1879  ;  Col.  Commdt. 

Highland  L.I..  1855-79,  m.  Alice  Mary  Weld-Blundell ;  died  Sep.  6, 

1887. 
Mostyn,  Sir  Edward,  7th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  6th 

Bart.  b.   1785  (Sep.    1800-2);    m.,    1st.  Frances   Blundell ;   2ndly, 

Constantia  Slaughter  ;  died  July  18,  1841. 

Mostyn,  Sir  Pyers,  8th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Edward  Mostyn, 
7th  Bart.,  b.  1811  (Aug.  1821-24),  D.L.,  Sheriff  of  Flintshire.  1843  '•> 
m.  Hon.  Frances  Georgina,  d.  of  I4th  Lord  Lovat ;  died  May  14, 
1882. 

Mostyn,  Sir  Pyers,  9th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  8th 
Bart.,  b.  1846  (May  1857-59)  ;  m.  Anna  Maria,  d.  of  T.  A.  Perry, 
Esq. 

Mostyn,  Hon.  George,  vide  Vaux. 

Mostyn,  Hon.  George,  son  of  the  6th  Baron  Vaux,  b.  1830 

(Sep.  1842-50),  Major  3rd  Surrey  Militia;    Sheriff  of  Westmeath, 

1871  ;  m.  Mary  Monk,  d.  of  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol ;  died 

May  31.  1879. 

Mostyn,  Hubert,  vide  Vaux. 
Mostyn,  Hon.  Montague,  son  of  the  6th  Baron  Vaux,  b.  1838 

(Aug.  1851-53)  ;  late  2nd  Life  Guards  ;  m.  Frances  Mary  Kearney. 


30  APPENDIX. 

Mostyn,  Hon.  Ranulph,  son  of  Hon.  George  Mostyn,  and 
grandson  of  6th  Lord  Vaux.  b.  1861  (Sep.  1873-77).  Matric.  Lond. 
Univ.  1877  ;  Lieut.  R.A. 

Mostyn,  Hon.  Harold,  br.  of<above,  and  grandson  of  6th  Lord 
Vaux,  b.  1865  (Jan.  1877-82). 

Nelson,  Hon.  Thomas  Horatio,  son  of  the  3rd  Earl  Nelson, 
b.  1857  (1880-82). 

Noel,  Hon.  Charles,  vide  Gainsborough. 

Noel,  Hon.  Edward,  son  of  2nd  Earl  of  Gainsborough,  b.  1852 
(Sep.  1866-70) ;  Captain  Rifle  Brigade ;  m.  Ruth  Lucas,  d.  of 
W.  H.  Lucas,  Esq.,  of  Treniffle,  Cornwall. 

Norfolk,  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  (Henry  Howard,)  i3th 
Duke,  K.G.,  son  of  the  I2th  Duke,  b.  1791  (1800-5),  m-  Charlotte 
Sophia,  d.  of  ist  Duke  of  Sutherland  ;  died  Feb.  18,  1856. 

Nugent,  William,  vide  Westmeath. 

Nugent,  Hon.  Charles,  son  of  9th  Earl  of  Westmeath,  b.  1836 

(Jan.  1847-52),  m.  Gertrude  O'Conor. 

Nugent,  Hon.  Richard,  son  of  9th  Earl  of  Westmeath,  b.  1842 

(Aug.  1855-61),  m.  Teresa  Henrietta  Gradwell. 
Nugent,  Sir  Hugh,  4th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  John  Nugent,  3rd 

Bart.,  b.  1845  (Sep.  1858-63),  died  Oct.  23,  1863. 

Nugent,  Sir  Charles,  5th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  John  Nugent, 
3rd  Bart.,  b.  1847  (Sep.  1858-63)  ;  Count  of  the  Holy  Roman  Empire, 
late  Lieut.  Leicester  Yeomanry  Cavalry,  ex-Lieut.  I7th  Lancers; 
m.  Emily,  d.  of  T.  Walker,  Esq. 

Nugent,  Sir  Walter,  of  Donore,  2nd  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Percy 
Nugent,  1st  Bart.,  b.  1827  (Feb.  18,  1840  -  Mid.  1841),  J.P., 
Capt.  late  33rd  Foot,  served  throughout  the  Crimean  War,  Major 
Westmeath  Militia ;  m.  Maria  More,  d.  of  Rt.  Hon.  Richard  More 
O'Farrell. 

O'Loghlen,  Sir  Bryan,  3rd  Baronet,  son  of  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Michael 
O'Loghlen,  1st  Bart.,  b.  1828  (Jan  1841-43),  Attorney  General, 
Victoria,  1878-80  ;  m.  Ella  Seward. 

Petre,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (William  H.  Francis),  nth  Baron,  son 
of  loth  Baron  Petre,  b.  1793  (June  1804-7)  5  m-;  Ist>  Frances 
Bedingfeld ;  2ndly,  Emma  Agnes  Howard  ;  died  July  3.  1850. 

Petre,  Hon.  Charles  Berney,  son  of  roth  Baron  Petre,  b.  1794 
(May  1805-8),  m.  Eliza  Howard  ;  died  June  18,  1854. 

Petre,  Hon.  Robert  Edward,  son  of  9th  Baron  Petre,  b.  1795 
(Aug.  1810-13),  M.P.  for  Ilchester  ;  m.  Laura,  d.  of  Lord  Stafford ; 
died  May  8,  1848. 

Petre,  Hon.  Robert  Thomas,  son  of  roth  Baron,  b.  1802 
(Jan.  1817-19)  ;  died  Feb.  13,  1864. 


APPENDIX.  31 

Petre,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (William  Bernard,)  i2th  Baron,  son 
of  nth  Baron  Petre,  b.  1817  (1830-31),  Grand  Cross  of  the  Order 
of  Pius  IX. ;  m.  Mary  Theresa  Clifford  ;  died  July  4,  1884. 

Petre,  Hon.  Henry,  son  of  nth  Baron,  b.  1820  (i83o-Dec.  31), 
m.  Mary  Anne  Eleanor  Walmesley. 

Petre,  Hon.  Arthur,  son  of  nth  Baron,  J. P.,  b.  1827  (Feb. 
1841-45)  m.  Lady  Catherine  Howard,  d.  of  4th  Earl  of  Wicklow  ; 
died  Nov.  4,  1882. 

Petre,  Hon.  Edmund,  son  of  nth  Baron,  b.  1829  (Sep. 
1842-46),  m.  Mary  Anne,  d.  of  Loraine  M.  Kerr,  Esq. 

Petre,  Hon.  Albert,  son  of  nth  Baron,  b.  1832  (Aug.  1845-48), 
m.  Elsie  Clarke. 

Petre,  Rt.  Rev.  the  Lord  (William  Joseph,)  i3th  Baron,  son 
of  I2th  Baron,  b.  1847  (1875-76). 

Petre,  Hon.  Bernard,  son  of  i2th  Baron,  b.  1858  (May 
1872-75). 

Plunkett,  Hon.  Edmund,  son  of  gth  Earl  of  Fingall,  b.  1828 
(1845-47);  died  Feb.  21,  1871. 

Plunkett,  Hon.  Sir  Francis,  K.C.M.G.,  son  of  9th  Earl  of 
Fingall.  b.  1835  (Sep.  1850-53),  Second  Secretary  to  Embassy, 
St.  Petersburg.  1877  ;  Secretary  of  Legation  at  Washington,  1876  ; 
at  Yeddo,  1873;  Second  Secretary  at  St.  Petersburg,  Copenhagen, 
Vienna,  Berlin,  and  Florence,  1862-73  ;  m.  May  Tevis  d.  of  Charles 
Wain  Morgan. 

Plunkett,  Hon.  Randal,  vide   Louth. 

Power,  Sir  John  Talbot,  3rd  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  James  Power, 
2nd  Bart.,  b,  1845  (April  1855-59)  ;  served  as  a  Papal  Zouave; 
M.P.  for  Wexford.  1868-74;  m.  Emma,  d.  of  Capt.  Henry  Segrave. 

Preston,  Hon.  Jenico,  vide  Gormanston. 

Pycke,  Baron  Paul  (1881-82). 

Redington,  Sir  Thomas,  K.C.B.,   b.   1815  (June    1826-31), 

M.P.  for  Dundalk,  1837-46  ;  Under  Secretary  for  Ireland,  1846-52; 
Secretary  to  the  Board  of  Control,  1852-56  ;  m.  Anna  Eliza,  d.  of 
John  Hyacinth  Talbot,  Esq.;  died  Oct.  II.  1862. 

Sforza-Cesarini,  Mario,  dei  Conti  Santa  fuora  (1887-     ). 

Southwell,  Rt.  Hon.  Viscount  (Thomas,)  K.P.,  4th  Viscount, 
nephew  of  the  3rd  Viscount,  b.  1836  (Feb.  1852-55),  Lord- 
Lieutenant  co.  Leitrim  ;  m.  Charlotte,  d.  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  Bart. ; 
died  April  26.  1878. 

Southwell,  Hon.  Charles,  nephew  of  3rd  Viscount  Southwell, 
b.  1839  (1852-54),  died  Aug.  8,  1875. 


32  APPENDIX. 

*Speffcer,  Hon.  and  Rev.  George  (Father  Ignatius),  son  of  the 
2nd  Earl  Spencer,  b.  1799,  ordained  May  26,  1832  (May  i839-Dec. 
1846)  ;  entered  the  Congregation  of  Passionists,  Dec.,  1846 ;  died 
Oct.  I,  1864. 

Stacpoole,    Rt.  Rev.  Monsignor  George  (Due  de  Stacpoole), 

(1841-2). 
Stacpoole,    Richard   (Due   de   Stacpoole)  (1838-42);    died 

May  2,    1878. 
Stafford,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Henry  Valentine  Stafford  Jerning- 

ham),  gth  Baron,  son  of  George  William  8th  Baron   Stafford,  b. 

1802  (1814-21),  m.,  1st,  Julia  Howard,  niece  of  the  I2th   Duke  of 

Norfolk  ;  2ndly.  Emma  Eliza,  d.  of  Frederick  Gerard  Esq.  ;  died 

Nov.  30,  1884. 

Stafford,  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  (Augustus  Jerningham)  loth  Baron, 
son  of  the  Hon.  Edward  Jerningham,  and  nephew  of  Henry  Valentine, 
gth  Baron  Stafford,  b.  1830  (Sep.  14,  i842-Mid.  1848). 

Stapleton,  Hon.  Bryan,  half-brother  of  Henry,  Qth  Baron 
Beaumont,  b.  1831  (1842-46),  Capt.  late  4th  West  York  Militia; 
m.  Mary  Helen  Dolman. 

Stapleton,  Hon.  Herman,  half-brother  of  gth  Baron  Beaumont, 

b.  1834  (1842-49). 
Stapleton,  Hon.  and  Rev.  Paul  (O.P).,  half-brother  of  gth  Baron 

Beaumont,  b.  1835  (1844-53). 

St.  George,  Sir  John,  5th  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Theophilus 
John  St.  George,  3rd. Bart.,  b.  1851  (1866-68),  Lieut.  7ist  Regiment. 

Stonor,  Hon.  Thomas  Edward,  son  of  3rd  Baron   Camoys, 

b    1824  (1837-43),  m.  Catharine  Colthurst ;    died   May  28,    1865, 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1842.     Founder  of  the  Oscotian  Society. 
Stonor,  Hon.  Francis,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  3rd  Baron  Camoys, 

b.  1829  (1841-46),  m.   Eli/a,  d.  of  Rt.  Hon   Sir  Robert  Peel,  Bart.; 

died  Jan.  10,  1881. 
Stonor,  Hon.  and  Right  Rev.  Monsignor,  D.C.L.,  son  of  3rd 

Baron  Camoys.  b.    1831   (1841-53)  .(1854-56),   Canon  of  St.  John 

Lateran ;    Protonotary    Apostolic    and    Domestic   Prelate    to    His 

Holiness. 

Stonor,  Francis  Robert,  vide  Camoys. 
Stonor,   Hon.  Henry  Julian,  son  of  Hon.  Francis  Stonor,  and 

grandson  of  3rd  Baron  Camoys,  b.  1859  (1870-71) 
Stourton,  Hon.  Edward,  vide  Vavasour. 
Stourton,  Hon.  Charles,  vide  Langdale. 
Stourton,   Hon.  Philip,  son  of  i6th  Baron  Stourton,  b.  1793 

(1803-5),  m>  Catherine  Howard  ;  died  Aug.  3,  1860. 


APPENDIX.  33 

Stourton,   Hon.  John,  son   of  xyth  Baron  Stourton,  b.  1816 

(1834)  ;  died  May  24,  1847. 
Strickland,  Gerard,  vide  Delia  Catena. 

Tichborne,  Sir  Alfred,  nth  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  James  Francis 

Tichborne.  loth  Bart.,  b.  1839  (1857),  m.  Hon.  Theresa  Mary,  d.  of 

Lord  Arundell  of  Wardour  ;  died  Feb.  22,  1866. 
Tichborne,    Sir   Henry,    i2th    Baronet,    son    of  Sir    Alfred 

Tichborne,  nth  Bart.,  b.  1866  (1877-80),  m.  Mary  d.  of  Ed.  Petre, 

Esq.,  of  Whitley  Abbey. 
Throckmorton,    Sir  Robert,   8th   Baronet,   son  of    William 

Throckmorton,    Esq.,    b.     1800    (1809-15),    in.    Elizabeth,    d.    of 

Sir  John  Acton,  Bart.;  died  June  28,  1862. 
Turville,  Sir  Francis   Fortescue,    K.C.M.G.,   son  of  George 

Fortescue  Turville,  Esq.,  b.  1831  (1840-50)  ;    Priv.  Sec.   to   Lord 

Lisgar  ;  m.  Adelaide,  Baroness  Lisgar. 

Van  den  Steen  de  Jehay,  Rev.  Count  (Gaston)  (1876-82) 

(1885-88)  ;  ordained  Priest  April  8,  1882. 

Vaux  of  Harrowden,    Rt.    Hon.  Lord   (George   Mostyn), 

6th  Baron,  son  of  Charles  Browne  Mostyn,  Esq.,  b.  1804(1818-1822)  ; 
summoned  to  Parliament  by  writ,  March  13, 1838  ;  m.  Caroline,  eldest 
d.  of  Arthur  Vansittart,  Esq.;  died  Jan.  28,  1883. 

Vaux  of  Harrowden,   Rt.  Hon.   Lord   (Hubert   Mostyn) 

7th  Baron,  son  of  Hon.  George  Mostyn,  and  grandson  of  6th  Baron 
Vaux  (1873-77),  m'  Eleanor  Margaret,  d.  of  Sir  Alexander 
Matheson,  Bart. 

Vavasour,  Hon.  Sir  Edward  Marmaduke,  ist  Baronet,  son  of 
Charles  Philip,  i6th  Baron  Stourton,  b.  1786  (1799-1804)  m.  Marcia 
Lane- Fox  ;  died  March  15,  1847. 

Vavasour,  Sir  Edward,  2nd  Baronet,  son  of  Hon.  Sir  Edward 
Marmaduke  Vavasour,  1st  Bart.,  b.  1815  (1826-27);  died  Aug.  23, 
1885. 

Vavasour,  Sir  William,  3rd  Baronet,  nephew  of  2nd  Baronet, 
b.  1846  (1859-62),  m.  Mary  Theresa  Weld. 

Vistahermosa,  Narcissus,  vide  De  la  Vega. 

Westmeath,  Rt.  Hon.  the  Earl  of  (William  Nugent),  loth 
Earl,  son  of  Anthony  Francis,  gth  Earl,  b.  1832  (1841-50)  ;  Captain 
late  gth  Regiment ;  m.  Emily  Margaret  Blake  ;  died  May  31,  1883. 

Wolseley,  Sir  Charles  Michael,  gth  Baronet,  son  of  Sir  Charles 
Wolseley,  8th  Bart.,  b.  1846  (1859-60)  ;  m.  Anita  Teresia,  d.  of  the 
Marchese  Murphy. 

Wyatt-Edgell,  Alfred,  vide  Braye. 

Yturbide,  Prince  Agostino,  grandson  of  the  Emperor  of 
Mexico,  granted  the  title  of  Prince  by  the  Emperor  Maximilian. 
(1878-79). 

Zulueta,  Count  Ernest  de  (1867-70). 

5 


34  APPENDIX. 

LAY   AND    DIVINITY    STUDENTS. 

Abadia,  Frederick  (Sep.  4,  1824 -Mid.  1825). 

Acton,  Edward  (1827-34)  a  relative  of  the  late  Cardinal  Acton, 
entered  the  Army  ;  died  in  Dublin.  R.I. P. 

Acton,  William  (1811-21)  of  Wolverton,  J.P.,  son  of  William 
Acton  of  Wolverton,  b.  1803,  m.  Mary,  widow  of  William  Trafford, 
Esq.  ;  died  May  30,  1871. 

Acton,  William  Walter,  eldest  son  of  William  Robert  Acton,  of 
Wolverton  (1874-80),  b.  1862,  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1880. 

Acton,  Robert  Matthew,  2nd  son  of  William  Robert  Acton,  of 
Wolverton  (1876-81),  b.  1864. 

Acton,  Charles  Joseph,  4th  son  of  William  Robert  Acton,  of 
Wolverton  (1883-  ),  b.  1872. 

Acton,   Roger  David,   5th  son  of  William  Robert  Acton,  of 

Wolverton  (1883-     ),  b.  1874. 
Adams,  William  (1859-63),  a  Divinity  Student. 
Afchain,  Jules  (March  12,  1841 -March  1842). 
Afchain,  Louis,  br.  of  above  (March  6,  1842 -March  1843). 
Ainslie,  Augustine  (Aug.  i,  1846 -Mid.  1848). 
Ajuria,  Raymond  (Sep.  28,  1842 -Jan.  1843). 
Ales,  William  (Jan.  1885 -April  1885). 

Alkins,  John  (Sep.  15,  1884- Sep.  1887),  Matric.  Lond.  Univ., 
June,  1887. 

Alleaume,  Paul  (Feb.  13,  1873 -Mid.  1876). 

Allies,  Edward  (Oct.  26,  1850 -March  1852). 

Allsop,  Peter  (Jan.  25,  1842  -Mid.  1848). 

Almeida,  Adolphe  Torquin  (Sep.  23,  1870 -Oct.  1871). 

Almeida,  Antonio  (Nov.  6,  1867 -Xmas.  1868). 

Almeida,  Salvador,  br.  of  above  (Nov.  6,  i867-Xmas.  1868). 

Alpin,  William  (July  2,  1873 -Xmas.  1876). 

Alvez,  Joseph  Louis  (Sept.  10,  1811  -Sep.  1816). 

Ambard,  Paul  (Jan.  12,  1850 -April  1852). 

Ambard,  Felix,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  12,  1850 -April  1852). 

Anderton,   William    Michael   Ince,   of    Euxton,   J.P.,    D.L. 

(1840-43),  son   of  William    Ince   Anderton,   Esq.,  of  Euxton,  b. 

1825,   I7th   Lancers,  Major   Lancashire   Hussars;   m.,     ist,   Lady 

Emma  Frances  Plunkett,  d.  of  9th  Earl  of  Fingall  ;  2ndly,  Casilda 

Hunloke  ;  died  Jan.  24,  1884. 


APPENDIX.  35 

Andre,  Frederick  (Aug.  14,  i85o-Xmas  1852). 

Andre,  Eugene,  br.  of  above  (May  16,  1856 -Oct.  1858). 

Andrew,  John  (April  i,  1848 -April,  1849). 

Andrew,  James,  br.  of  above  (April  i,  1848 -April  1849). 

Ankrett,  Thomas  (Aug.  13,  1832 -Mid.  1833);  died  May  3, 

1882. 

Araoz,  Manuel  (March  23,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 
Araujo,  Francis  (April  12,  1871 -Xmas.  1871). 
Araujo,  William  (Dec  21,  1886 -Xmas.  1887). 
Araujo,  Adelino,  br.  of  above  (Dec.  21,  1886 -Xmas.  1887). 

Arbuthnott,  Donald,  son  of  Hon.  David  Arbuthnott,  E.I.C.S., 
and  grandson  of  8th  Viscount  Arbuthnott  (Sep.  n,  1872  -  Feb.  1874) 

Archbold,  Robert  of  Davidstown  (1859-62),  J.P.  co.  Kildare, 
and  High  Sheriff;  died  Dec.  9,  1876. 

Archer,  Richard  (July  22,  1815 -June  1818). 

Ardizone,  Francis  (Oct.  3,  1857 -Oct.  1860).     R.I.P. 

Ardizone,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  3,  1857 -Oct.  1860). 

Armendais,  Jose  (Sep.  14,  1885 -Mid.  1886). 

Armendais,  Joachim,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1885  -  Mid.  1886). 

Arnold,  Michael  (Sep.  10,  1842 -Mid.  1844). 

Arnoux,  Ferdinand  (Feb.  25,  1854 -Mid.  1858). 

Arnoux,  Albert,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  2,  1865 -Mid.  1869);  died 
Dec.  27,  1885. 

Arrowsmith,  Charles  (Sep.  12,   1819 -Xmas.  1822);  died  in 

1824. 
Ashe,  Trevor  Lloyd  (May  5,  1821  -Mid.  1821). 

Ashlin,  George,  of  the  firm  of  Pugin  and  Ashlin  (Aug.  14, 
1851 -Xmas.  1855). 

Ashlin,  John,  br.  of  the  above  (Nov.  3,  1849 -Mid.  1853). 
Ashworth,  James  (Aug.  i,  1846 -Oct.  1846). 

Atlee,  George  Falconer,  son  of  Falconer  Atlee,  C.M.G.  of  the 

Paris  Embassy  (Jan.  22,  1884 -Xmas.  1886). 
Aurquia,  John  Baptist  (Oct.  10,  i88i-Xmas.  1882). 

Austin,  Alfred,  B.A.  Lond.  Univ.,  1853  (Oct.  26,  1852- 
Oct.  1853). 

Austin,  Walter,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  20,  1856 -Mid.  1858). 
Austin,  Henry,  nephew  of  above  (Jan.  13,  1877 -Feb.  1883). 
Austin,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (May  31,  1881  -March  1885). 


36  APPENDIX. 

Aveleira,  Leonidas  (Aug.  i86i-Mid.  1863). 
Avila,  Carlos  (Sep.  9,  1873 -Mid.  1877). 
Aylmer,  Edmund  (Jan.  14,  1849 -Mid.  1853). 
Aznar,  Edward  (Sep.  9,  i873-Xmas.  1874). 
Baeza,  Narcissus  (Sept.  8,  1814- Mid.  1816). 
Bagnall,  Charles  (Jan.  16,  1837 -Mid.  1839). 

Bagshawe,  William  Henry  Gunning  Bagshawe,  B.A,  Q.C. 
(1838-1843),  one  of  II.  M.  County  Court  Judges  ;  formerly 
Examiner  Lond.  Univ.  in  Equity  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1841  ; 
B.A.,  1843. 

Bagshawe,  Frederick  G.  (Sept.  20,  1857  -  Mid.  1860), 
Barrister-at-Law  of  the  Middle  Temple  ;  m.  Emily,  d.  of  T.  Bolton, 
Esq.,  of  Wolverhampton. 

[These  two,   with   Canon  John   Bagshawe,   were  sons  of  Henry 
R.  Bagshawe,  Q.C.] 

Baillon,  William  (Sep.  2,  1865 -Xmas.  1868). 

Baker,  Chicheley  (May  2,  1867 -Mid.  1868),  son  of  Henry 
Sherston  Baker,  and  br.  of  Sir  G.  E.  Sherston  Baker,  Bart. 

Baldwin,  John  (Sep.  18,  1800 -March  1804).     R.I.P. 

Baldwin,   Henry  (Oct.   16,  i8n-June  1819);  died  May  24, 

1854. 

Ball,  John  (March  25,  1831-  Mid.  1834). 
Ball,  Thomas  (Oct.  18,  1831 -Mid.  1838). 
Ball,  Nicholas  (Aug.  14,  1833 -Sep.  1841). 
Ball,  Alexander  (Aug.  24.  1837 -Mid.  1843). 

[  The  above  four,  and  their  brother,  the  Rev.  Anthony  Ball,  were  the 
sons  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  Justice  Ball.] 

Balmaseda,  Jose  (July  22,  1838 -Mid.  1842). 
Balmaseda,  Manuel,  br.  of  above  (July  22,  1838 -Mid.  1842). 
Balmaseda,  Raimondo,  br.  of  above  (July  22,  i838-Mid.  1842). 
Banister,  John  (Aug.  17,  1838 -Feb.  1840). 

Banon,  Arthur  Thomas  (Oct.  28,1859 -Mid.  1866),  served  in 

Afghan  campaign  of  1878  ;  Capt.  late  Bengal  Staff  Corps. 
Barboza,  J.  A.  (April  19,  1809 -Xmas.  1810). 
Barnett,  William  (Aug.  7,  1834 -Xmas.  1837). 

Barrett,  John,  of  Milton,  son  of  John  Richard  Barrett,  Esq., 
of  Milton  (Aug.  14,  1834  -  Mid.  1838)  ;  m.  Ellen  d.  of  John  Uox, 
Esq.,  of  Abingdon. 


APPENDIX.  37 

Barren,  Eustace,  K.S.G.  (Jan.  14,  1840  -Feb.  1842),  Kt.  Legion 
of  Honour,  and  several  Foreign  Orders  ;  English  Consul  at  Sn.  Bias  ; 
died  Sep.  to,  1867. 

Barren,  William,  K.S.G.,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  14,  1840  - 
Mid.  1842),  Commander  of  Charles  the  Third  of  Spain  ;  late  Captain 
Sand  Regt.  ;  served  with  his  regiment  in  the  Crimean  War,  present 
at  the  Fall  of  Sebastopol  (English  and  Turkish  Medals)  :  Exon 
Yeomen  Guard. 

Barrozo,  Joachim  (Sep.  28,  1844 -Oct.  1849). 
Barry,  Alexander  (Sep.  7,  1862  -  Xmas.  1865), 

Barry,  Charles  Standish  (Aug.  27,  1862 -Xmas.  1864),  son  of 
Henry  Standish  Barry,  Esq.,  of  Lemlara,  m.  Hon.  Margaret  Mary 
Southwell,  sister  of  4th  Viscount  Southwell. 

Barry,  James  (March  5,  1856 -Mid.  1858). 
Bartlam,  Edward  (Sep.  24,  1813 -Sep.  1818). 
Basagoitia,  Narcissus  (Sep.  13,  1879 -Mid.  1880). 

Bateman,  Francis  (May  2,  1846  -  Xmas.  1846)  (in  Divinity). 
R.I.P. 

Bateman,  Ferrers  (Jan.  30,  1856 -March  1857).     R.I.P. 

Batiz,  Manuel  (Aug.  6,  1838 -Mid.  1839). 

Baxter,  John  (Jan.  17,  1816- April  1817). 

Bayliss,  William  (Sep.  15,  1884);  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1887. 

Beaumont,  John  (Sep.  26,  1837 -April   1844)  (Feb.  1847- 

Mid.  1847)  ;  son  of  John  Beaumont,  Esq.,  of  Barrow-on-Trent. 

Beaumont,  Robert,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  26,  1837 -Nov.  1843). 
Beaumont,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (1840 -Oct.  1841). 

Bedingfeld,  Felix  William,  C.M.G.,  fourth  son  of  Sir  Richard 
Bedingfald,  Bart,  b.  1808  (Jan.  1822-27),  Barrister-at-Law  ;  Crown 
Commissioner  of  the  Turks  Islands,  1842  ;  Master  of  Supreme 
Court  at  Trinidad,  1849-54 ;  Colonial  Secretary  at  Mauritius, 
1860-68  ;  m.  Mary,  d.  of  Colonel  Chads. 

Bedingfeld,  George  (March  31,  1817 -Mid.  1819). 

Bedward,  John  (Nov.  15,  1838 -Mid.  1840). 

Beech,  John  (Sep.  14,  1852-  Mid.  1853);  died  Dec.  i,  1880. 

Beech,  William  (Jan.  22,  1833 -April  1834). 

Bell,  Joseph  (Jan.  13,  1853 -Xmas.  1855). 

Bennett,  Francis,  J.P.,  D.L.,  High  Sheriff  of  King's  co. 
(Aug.  16,  1838 -Mid.  1839)  (Sep.  1841 -Mid.  1844),  son  of 
Valentine  Bennett.  Esq.,  of  Thomastown. 


38  APPENDIX. 

Bennett,  George,  br.  of  above,  late  Lieut.-Col.  2oth  foot 
(Aug.  16,  1838  -  Mid.  1839)  (Sep.  1841  -  Mid.  1844) ;  distinguished 
himself  in  the  Indian  and  Crimean  campaigns,  being  present  at  the 
battles  and  sieges  of  the  Alma,  Balaclava,  Inkerman,  Lucknow, 
Chanda,  Ameerapore,  Sultanpore,  and  Musjeedia  ;  died  Nov.  7, 
1867. 

Bennett,  Valentine,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  16,  1839)  (Sept.  1841  - 
Mid.  1844),  Lieut.  33rd  Regiment ;  killed  in  the  Crimea,  June  18, 
i855- 

Beramendi,  Charles  (Nov.  6,  i8n-Mid.  1814). 

Berington,  Rowland,  son  of  Thomas  Berington,  Esq ,  of 
Winsley  (May  30,  1797 -Aug.  1800)  ;  died  Aug.  5,  1806. 

Berkeley,  Robert,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  Robert  Berkeley,  Esq.,  of 

Spetchley,  b.  1794  (1804-06),  m.  Henrietta  Benfield,  died  Sep.  26, 

1874. 
Berkeley,  Robert,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  above,  b.  1823  (April, 

1836-42),  m.  Lady  Catherine  Browne,  d,  of  3rd  Earl  of  Kenmare. 
Berkeley,  John,  br.  of  above,  b.  1827  (1838-43)  ;  died  Jan.  2, 

1847,  at  Stonyhurst  College. 
Berkeley,    Frederick,    br.    to    Robert    and    John,    b.     1835 

(1853-54)  ;  died  June  8,  1866. 
Berkeley,   Robert  Valentine,  son  of  Robert  Berkeley,  Esq., 

b.  1853  (Aug.  1864  -  Xmas.  1864);    Matric.   Lond.  Univ.,    1874. 

Captain  Worcester  Militia. 

Berkeley,  Hubert,  br.  of  last  mentioned,  b.  1864  (Jan.  29, 
1 884 -Mid,  1884). 

Betancourt,  Augustine  (June  30,  1811  -Mid.  1814). 
Bethell,  Henry  (Jan.  17,  1851 -Xmas.  1852). 

Bethell,  Charles  (Sep.  10,  1860 -Xmas.  1861),  m.  Charlotte, 

d.  of  C.  J.  Manning,  Esq.,  of  Prince's  Gardens. 
Bethell,  Hugh  (Sep.   13,   1865  -  Xmas   1866);    m.  Florence 

Dora  O'Callyhan. 
Bethell,  Robert  (Jan.  1870 -Mid.  1870). 

[  The  four  last  mentioned,  with  their  brother,  Canon  Bethell.  were 
sons  of  John  Bethell,  Esq.,  brother  of  Lord  Westbury.] 

Bingham,  William  (Nov.  13,  1843 -March  1846). 

Bingham,  Alexander  Baring  (Aug.  20,  1848 -March  1855), 
late  Capt.  nth  Hussars  ;  died  Dec.  14,  1865. 

Bishop,  Clement  (Aug.  1857 -Mid.  1859)  (May,  1866 -Xmas. 
1867)  (Nov.  1868  -  Xmas.  1870). 

Bishop,  Gerald  (Sep.  20,  1873 -May  1874). 


APPENDIX.  39 

Bishop,  Bernard,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1875 -Xmas.  1877). 

Bishop,  Henry  (Sep.  5,  i86i-Mid.  1862). 

Bill,  John  (Aug.  14,  1838 -Xmas.  1840). 

Bill,  Robert  (Aug.  14,  1838 -Mid.  1840). 

Bill,  Thomas  (Aug.  12,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 

Bill,  James  (Aug.  12,  1841 -Mid.  1843). 

Bill,  Richard  (Aug.  14,  1843 -Mid,  1845). 

Bill,  William  (Jan.   13,   1849 -Xmas.   1850);   died  March   n, 

1876. 

Bill,  Joseph  (Jan.  24,  1851  -Xmas.  1852). 
Bill,  Samuel  (Aug.  13.  1856 -Mid.  1858). 

[  These  eight  were  sons  of  John  Bill,  Esq.,  of  Trent  Vale.] 
Bilton,  Joseph  (Aug.  8,  1839  -  Aug.  1843). 
Birch,  Louis  (Sep.  17,  1883-    ). 
Black,  James  (Aug.  31,  1806 -Mid.  1808). 

Blackney,  William,  son  of  Colonel  Blackney  (Aug.  9,  1836  - 

Sep.  1837). 

Blackwell,  Robert  (Aug.  19,  1805 -Xmas.  1806). 
Blair,  Thomas  (Jan.  12,  1852 -Mid.  1856). 
Blair,  James,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  16,  1855 -Mid.  1859). 

Blake,  Francis,  of  Gregg  Castle,  J.P.,  High  Sheriff,  Galway 
(June  14,  1804 -June  1807),  b.  1789,  in.  Georgina,  d.  of  Richard 
Burke,  of  Glinsk  ;  died  in  1869. 

Blake,  James,  J.P.,  son  of  the  above  Francis  Blake,  b.  1822 

(Aug.   13,  1835  -  Mid.   1843),  m.  Helen   Charlotte   French  ;   died 

Nov.  10,  1884. 
Blake,  John,  son  of  the  above  Francis  Blake,  b.  1826  (Aug.  18, 

1838 -Mid.  1844).  m.  Mary  Anne,   d.  of  G.  S.  Lynch-Staunton,  of 

Clydagh  ;  died  June  29,  1880. 

Blake,    Henry,    son   of    the  above    Francis    Blake,    b.    1828 

(Oct.  24,  1846 -Mid.  1849  ;  died  April  17,  1888. 
Blake,    Rickard,     son    of    above    Francis    Blake,    b.    1829 

(Oct.  24,  1846 -Mid.  1850). 
Blake,   Francis,    son   of  the   above    Francis    Blake,    b.    1835 

(Aug,  13,  1848 -Mid.  1853). 
Blake,  Arthur  Francis,  son  of  James  Blake,  Esq.  (Feb  9,  1865  - 

Mid.  1868). 
Blake,  Francis,  son  of  John  Blake,  Esq.  (Sept.  18,  1877  -April 

u,  1882).] 


40  APPENDIX. 

Blake,  Francis  Joseph,  son  of  Rickard  Blake,  Esq.  (April  10, 
1886-  ). 

Blake,  Robert  (Nov.  10,  1807 -Mid.  1809). 
Blake,  Martin,  D,L.,  of  Ballyglunin  (July  26,  i8o6-Mid.  1809); 
died  1861. 

Blake,  Henry,  of  Ballyglunin  (July  26,    1806 -Mid.  1810),  m. 

Adelaide  French ;  died  Oct.  17,  1858. 

Blake,  Walter,  of  Ballyglunin  (Oct.  i,  1837 -Mid.  1842). 
Blake,  Andrew,   D.L.,  J.P.,  of  Furbough,  co.  Galway,  High 

Sheriff  (Nov.   25,   1809  -  Mid.   1815),   m.  Maria  Julia  Daly:   died 

Jan.  27,  1868. 

Blake,  Edmond,  br.  of  Andrew  Blake  (Sep.  9,  1813 -Mid.  1815), 
m.  Miss  St.  George,  of  Tyrone. 

Blake,   Malachy,   son  of  Andrew   Blake,    Esq.,  of  Furbough 

(Aug.  12,  1846 -Mid.  1850). 
Blake,    Andrew,    son   of  Andrew  Blake,   Esq.,  of  Furbough 

(Jan.  27,  1856 -Mid.  1862). 

Blake,  John  Joseph,  of  Garbally,  King's  co.  (May  10,  1823- 
Feb.  1826),  m.  Elizabeth  Bodkin. 

Blake,   Valentine,  of  Towerhill,    co.  Mayo  (Oct.   27,    1883- 

Xmas.  1883.) 
Blake,    Owen,    of  Kiltullagh  (Oct.    n,    183  7 -April    1842); 

died  1853. 

Blake,  Theobald,  J.P.,  D.L.  of  Kiltullagh,  (Aug.   17,  1838- 

Xmas.  1842),  m.  Elizabeth,  d.  of  James  Blake,  Esq.,  of  Vermont, 
co.  Galway  ;  Public  Man.  1842. 

Blake,  Andrew,  of  Nottingham  (Aug.  10,  1849  -Xmas.  1850). 
Blanchar,  Hyacinth  (June  2,  1839 -Nov.  1840). 

Blount,  Joseph,  son  of  Joseph  Blount,  Esq.,  and  nephew  of 
Michael  Blount,  Esq.,  of  Mapledurham  (July  3,  1795  -  Mar.  1796)  : 
m.,  1st,  Jane  Saterthwaite  ;  2ndly,  Anne  Martin.  K.I. P. 

Blount,  Michael,  of  Mapledurham  (Aug.  19,  1830  -  Xmas. 
1830)  (1834-35)  ;  died  Feb.  8,  1881. 

Blount,   Charles  J.,   br.  of  Michael  Blount  (Aug.    18,   1838- 

Mid.  1839)  ;  died  April  2.  1881. 
Blount,  Arthur,  br.  of  Michael  Blount  (Aug.  18,  1838 -Mid. 

1840). 

Blount,  John,  son  of  William  Blount,  Esq.,  M.D.,  of  Orleton 
(Sep.  9,  1817  -  Mid.  1821)  ;  m.  Miss  King  ;  died  in  1870. 

Blount,  Henry,  br  of  John  Blount  (Sep.  9,  1817  -Mid.  1821) ; 
died  April  16,  1857. 


APPENDIX.  41 

Blount,  William,  son  of  William  Blount,  Esq.,  of  Orleton 
(Jan.  15,  1841  -  Mid.  1842)  ;  m.  Anne,  d.  of  Valentine  O'Brien 
O'Connor,  Esq ,  D.L.,  of  Rockfield  House.  Blackrock. 

Blount,  Walter  Aston,  son  of  Edward  Blount,  Esq.,  M.P.,  and 
nephew  of  Sir  Walter  Blount,  Bart.,  b.  1807  (Aug.  16,  1819 -Mid. 
1824)  ;  Clarenceux  King-of-Arms. 

Blount,  Herbert,  br.  of  above,  b.  1811  (Aug.  25,  1824 -Feb. 
1828)  ;  Lient.-Col.  68th  Regiment  ;  Knight  5th  Class  Order  of 
Medjidie  ;  served  in  Canada,  East  and  West  Indies,  and  in  the 
Crimean  War  ;  died  May  10.  1860. 

Blount,  Henry  Edmund,  son  of  Sir  Edward  Charles  Blount, 
K.C.B.,  b.  1844  (Oct.  9,  1857 -May  1860),  m.  Marguerite,  d.  of 
Charles  Paul  Moreau  de  la  Rochette,  Baron  de  la  Rochette. 

Blount,  Stephen  Robert,  son  of  the  late  Sir  Edward  Blount, 
Bart.,  b.  1840  (Oct.  6,  1857  -  Mid.  1859).  Barrister-at-Law ;  m. 
Elizabeth,  d.  of  William  Worswick. 

Blount,   Hugh  Francis,  son  of  the  late  Sir  Edward  Blount, 

Bart.,  b.  1844  (Oct.  6,  1857- Mid.  1859). 
Blundell,  Arthur,  son  of  John  Blundell,  Esq.,  of  Crook  Hall, 

J.P.,  and  nephew  of  Nicholas  Blundell,  Esq.,  of  Crosby  (Sep.  1865  - 

Xmas.  1870). 

Blundell,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  6,  1866  -  Mid.  1873); 
a  Novice  in  the  Order  of  Passionists,  Broadway. 

Blundell,  Eustace,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  1879 -Mid.  1882). 

Blundell,  Osbert,  son  of  Nicholas  Blundell,  Esq.,  of  Crosby 

(Sep.  1871 -Xmas.  1875). 
Blunt,   Francis  Scawen,  of  Crabbett  (Jan.   29,    1855  -  Xmas. 

1856)  ;  died  April  21,  1872. 
Blunt,  Wilfrid  Scawen,  of  Crabbett,  br.   of  above  (Jan.   29, 

1855 -June  1857),  in.  Lady  Anne  Noel,  d.  of  Earl  of  Lovelace,  and 

grand-daughter  of  Lord  Byron. 

Blunt,  Francis,  nephew  of  G.  V.  Blunt,  Esq.,  M.D.,  of 
Birmingham  (April  9,  1877 -Xmas.  1880). 

Boase,  —  (in  Divinity)  (Sep.  18,  1882 -Xmas.  1882). 
Bodkin,  John  (May  10,  1823 -Xmas   1827). 
Bodkin,  Thomas  (June  14,  1837  -Mid.  1840).     R.I. P. 
Bodkin,  Dominic  (June  14,  1837 -Mid.  1840).     R.I. P. 

Bolton,  Thomas  Alfred,  son  of  George  Bolton,  Esq.,  of  Liver- 
pool (Jan.  12,  1840-  Mid.  1847)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ..  1846  ;  died 
Jan.  29,  1869. 

Bolton,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  12,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 


42  APPENDIX. 

Bolton,  Thomas  (March  5,  i857-Xmas.  1861). 
Bolton,  Alfred  (March  5,  1857  -Mid.  1864). 
Bolton,  Horace  (Sep.  1864 -March  1868). 
Bolton,  Walter  (Sep.  1864 -Mid.  1868). 

[  The  four  last  mentioned  were  sons  of  Thomas  Bolton,  Esq. ,  Solicitor, 
of  Welverhampton]. 

Boot,  Alfred  (June,  1844 -Mid.  1845). 
Booth,  John  Peter  (Oct.  28,  1830 -Mid.  1833). 

Boshell,  William  (Sep.  14,   1874 -Mid.  1875)  (May  17,  1876- 

Mid.  1878). 

Botin,  Jose  (Oct.  12,  1877 -Mid.  1879). 

Botin,  Emilio,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  29,  1882 -March  31,  1883). 

Bougrelle,  Leonce,  (Nov.  3,  1851 -Jan.  1852). 

Boura-Misa,  Manuel  (Sep.  1864- Xmas.  1867);  died  Jan.  8, 

1870. 

Bourne,  Horace  (April  19,  1846 -March  1849). 
Bowdon,  John,  son  of  George  Bowdon,  Esq.,  of  Radford,  and 

br.  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Bowdon  (Oct.  7,  1801  -  Sep.  1804). 
Boylan,  Felix  (Feb.  12,  1812 -Mid.  1814). 
Boylan,  George,  br.  of  above  (Feb.  12,  1812 -Xmas  1815). 
Boylan,  Richard   Dillon,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  20,    1812 -April 

1823)  ;  gained  in  1824,  the  Oration  Prize,  the  legacy  of  Dr.  Hooper, 

at  Trin.  Coll.  Camb. 

Boylan,  Michael,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  20,  1812 -Mid,  1817). 
Boylan,  John,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  13,  1817 -Xmas.  1821). 
Bradley,  John  (March  20,  1862 -May  1862). 
Bradnock,  John  (Aug.  1820 -Xmas.  1820). 
Bradshaw,  William  (Aug.  9,  1836 -Mid.  1839). 
Bradshaw,  John  (Oct.  21,  185 4 -April  1856). 
Bradshaw,  James  (Oct.  14,  1854 -Xmas.  1859). 
Bradshaw,  Sylvester  (Oct.  14,  1854 -Xmas.  1859). 

[The  three  last  mentioned  are  the  sons  of  J.Johnson  Bradshaw,  Esq., 
of  Leamington]. 

Braga,  Candido  (Aug.  17,  1856 -Feb.  1859). 
Braggiotti,  Henry  (April  24,  1860 -Xmas.  1861). 
Brain,  Charles,  Rev.  (June  5,  1885),  (in  Divinity). 
Bray,  George  (Feb.  13,  1807 -Mid.  1807). 
Bray,  John  (June  6,  1836- April  1837). 


APPENDIX.      _  43 

Breeden,  Francis  (Sep.  17,  i874-Mid.  1876). 
Bretherton,  Henry  (Aug.  23,  i847-Xmas.  1848). 
Bretherton,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  23,  i847-Xmas.  1848). 
Bretherton,  William  (Aug.  20,  i86i-Mid.  1864). 
Bretherton,  Bartholomew  (Aug.  19,  1850 -Mid.  1856);  died 
Jan.  3,  1863. 

Bretherton,  Frederick  Stapleton  (Aug.  19,  1850 -Mid.  1857), 

m.  Hon.  Isabella  Petre. 

[  The  two  last  mentioned  are  sons  of  Bartholomew  Bretherton,  Esq., 
of  Rainhill]. 

Bretherton,  Joseph  (Sep.  1868  -  Xmas.  1872). 

Brettagh,  John  (Aug.  19,  1814- Xmas.  1817). 

Briggs,  Charles  (Aug.  15,  1802 -Feb.  1804). 

Britten,  Thomas  Xavier,  son  of  Major-Gen.  Britten  (Sep.  18, 
1882 -Mid.  1886),  Lieut,  in  the  Gloucestershire  Regiment. 

Brockholes,  William  Fitzherbert-  (Dec.  21,  1840 -Jan.  1842), 
son  of  Charles  Fitzherbert-Brockholes,  Esq.  ;  died  Jan.  29,  1855. 

Brockholes,  William  Joseph  Fitzherbert-,  second  son  of  Francis 
Fitzherbert,  Esq.,  of  Swynnerton,  took  the  surname  and  arms  of 
Brockholes,  on  succeeding  to  the  Claughton  estates  in  1875  (Jan-  I3> 
1863 -Xmas.  1868),  m.,  1st,  Mary  Ida,  d.  of  Robert  Berkeley,  Esq., 
of  Spetchley  ;  2ndly,  July  I,  1885,  Blanche,  d.  of  Major-Gen,  the 
Hon.  Sir.  Henry  Clifford  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1868. 

Brophy,  John  (Aug.  27,  1841  -Mid.  1844). 

Browne-Mostyn,  Charles,  eldest  son  of  Charles  Browne- 
Mostyn,  2nd  son  of  Sir  Edward  Mostyn,  5th  Bart. ;  m.  Mary  only 
child  of  George  Butler,  Esq.,  of  Ballyragget,  and  was  the  father  of 
the  6th  Baron  Vaux  of  Harrowden  (Aug.  26,  1794 -April  1795); 
died  March  n,  1821. 

Browne,  Edward  (June  14,  1804 -Mid.  1808). 

Browne,  Robert  Dillon  (Aug.  23,  1825  -  Mid.  1828),  was  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  Oscotian. 

Browne,  Edward  (Sep.  15,  1833 -Mid.  1837). 

Bryan,  George,  of  Jenkinstown,  b.  1796  (Oct.  23,  1808- 
March,  1813),  m.  Margaret,  d.  of  William  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Castle 
Talbot  ;  died  Oct.  5,  1848. 

Bryan,  George  Leopold,  J.P.,  D.L.,  of  Jenkinstown,  son  of 

above,  b.  1828  (Aug.  7,  1838  -  Xmas.  1845)  ;  M.P.  for  co.  Kilkenny; 
High  Sheriff  1852;  m.  Lady  Elizabeth  Georgiana  Conyngham,  d. 
of  the  Marquis  Conyngham,  K.G.  ;  died  June  29,  1880. 

Bryan,  Michael,  of  Malaga  (June  7,  1827  -Nov.  1831). 


44  APPENDIX. 

Bryan,  Michael,  of  Malaga  (Sep.  n,  1876 -Mid.  1879). 

Bucknall,  Robert  (Feb.  21,  1805 -Xmas.  1805). 

Bullen,  Henry  (Feb.  14,  1854 -Xmas.  1856),  son  of  Dr.  Bullen, 

of  Cork.  . 

Bullen,  Robert  (Sep.  21,  1852 -Mid.  1854), 
Bullen,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  20,  185  5 -Mid,  1857). 
Bullen,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1858- Mid.  1861). 

Buller,   Walter  (March   17,  1856- Mid.  1858) ;   Captain  94th 

Regiment. 

Buller,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (March  17,  1856 -Mid.  1860). 
Buller,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (March  17,  1856 -Mid.  1862). 
Bunn,  Augustine  (April  22,  1834 -Xmas.  1836). 
Bunster,  Lino  (March  3,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 
Bunster,  Carlos,  br.  of  above' (March  3,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 
Bunster,  Raphael,  br.  of  above  (March  3,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 
Bunster,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (March  3,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 
Burgos,  Joachim  (Nov.  1828 -March  1832). 

Burke,  James,  br.  of  Sir  John  Burke,  2nd  Baronet  (March  17, 
1803 -Xmas.  1806);  died  1812. 

Burke,  Charles  Granby,  br.  of  Sir  Thomas  Burke,  3rd  Baronet, 
b.  1814  (Feb.  6,  1824 -Mid.  1831)  ;  Master  of  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  in  Ireland  ;  m.,  1st,  Emma  James  Creyke ;  2ndly,  Anna 
Everilda  Segard. 

Burke,  James  Henry,  br.  of  Sir  Thomas  Burke,  3rd  Baronet, 
b.  1816  (Aug.  21,  1825  -  Mid.  1830)  ;  Major-Gen,  late  Bombay 
Engineers  ;  formerly  Master  of  the  Mint,  Bombay  ;  m.  Marion  Eliza, 
d.  of  Major-Gen.  Crispin  ;  died  June  27,  1882. 

Burke,  Edward  Howe,  J.P.,  br.  of  above,  b.  1817  (Aug.  23, 
1827 -Mid.  1835). 

Burke,   Maurice   Otway,   br.  of  above,   b.    1819  (March  25, 

1828 -Mid.  1831)  ;  drowned  in  New  Zealand,  July  7,  1844. 
Burke,    Henry  Ulick,  br.  of  above,  b.  1822  (Jan.  27,   1833- 

Mid.  1840)  ;  Cap.  33rd  Regiment  ;  died  of  fever  and  exhaustion  in 

the  Crimea,  Jan.  18,  1855. 
Burke,    Thomas   Malachy,    son    of  Sir   Thomas   Burke,   3rd 

Baronet,   b.    1864    (April   29,    1875  -  April,    1881)  ;    Public   Man 

Jan. -April.  1881. 
Burke,   William   Anthony,    son    of  Sir  Thomas    Burke,    3rd 

Baronet,  b.  1866  (March  27,  1877-  June  1883). 
Burke,  Maurice  Bernard,  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Burke,  3rd  Baronet, 

b.  1867  (April  12,  1879  -  Mid.  1884)  ;   Lieut.  Galway  Militia. 


APPENDIX.  45 

Burke,  James  Henry,  son  of  James  Henry  Burke,  Esq.,  b. 

1853  (Aug.  21,  1862 -Mid.  1863)  ;  Lieut.  R.N. 
Burke,  John  Benjamin,  son  of  James   Henry  Burke,  Esq., 

b.  1854  (Aug.  21,  1862 -Mid.  1863)  ;  Roscommon  Militia. 

Burke,  Thomas  Rickard  (Aug.  10,  1829 -Mid.  1833). 
Burke,  William  F.  (Sep.  23,  1839 -Mid.  1841). 
Burke,  John  (Aug.  26,  1841 -Xmas.  1841). 

Burke,  Bernard,  son  of  Sir  Bernard  Burke,  Ulster  King-of- 
Arms,  b.  1861  (Sep.  15,  1874- Mid.  1876)  ;  Gentleman-in-Waiting 
to  the  Lord- Lieutenant  of  Ireland. 

Burke,  Harlowen,  br.  of  above,  b.  1863  (Sep.  15,  1874- 
March  1877). 

Burke,  William  (Aug.  185 7 -March  1860). 

Burke,  Henry  R.,  of  Lota  Park,  Cork  (Sep.  17,  1863 -Mid. 

1867). 

Burke,  William  Henry  (Jan.  25,  i88i-Mid.  1884). 
Burton,  Edwin  (Sep.  28,  1885 -Mid.  1886). 
Bustamante,  Leonidas  (Jan.  18,  1866 -Mid.  1866). 
Butler,  John  (Aug.  9,  1807 -Aug.  1810). 
Butler,  Robert  (Aug.  18,  1821 -Mid.  1824). 
Butler,  Charles  (Aug.  13,  1822 -Mid.  1825). 
Butler,  William  (Nov.  20,  1855 -Nov.  1856). 
Byrne,  James  (Dec.  5,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 
Byrne,  Edmund,  br.  of  above  (Dec.  5,  1827 -Mid.  1830). 

Byrne,  Henry  (Sep.  i,  i828-Mid.  1838);  Public-Man,  1837- 

1838. 

Caamano,  Charles  (May  31,  1860 -Xmas.  1860). 
Cabanas,  Jose  (Sep.  27,  1882 -April  1884). 
Cahill,  Francis  (Sep.  1864 -Mid.  1865). 
Callaghan,  Michael  S.  (March  7,  1813- Mid.  1815). 
Callaghan,  Daniel,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  1813 -Mid.  1815). 
Callaghan,  Michael,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  1813 -Mid.  1815). 
Callaghan,  Owen  (Sep.  14,  1846 -March  1848). 
Callaghan,  Thomas  M.  (June  3,  1863 -Oct.  1865).     R.I.P. 
Camera,  Louis  (Jan.  14,  1864 -Jan.  1865). 
Campbell,  Alexander  (Aug.  18,  1821  -  Dec.  1826). 
Campos,  Jose  Almeida  (May  2,  1857  -  Mid.  1858). 


46  APPENDIX. 

Campuzano,  Joachim  (June  18,  1860 -Mid.  1863). 
Canny,  Matthew  (Nov.  3,  1827 -Mid.  1829). 
Canny,  Denis  (Jan.  28,  1857  -  Mid.  1858). 
Caraher,  William  (Sep.  15,  1879 -Mid.  1882). 
Cardona,  Bartholomew  (Nov.  22.  185  3 -Mid.  1854). 
Cardoso,    Joachim    (Sep.    1869  -  Mid.    1876),    Public   Man, 
Sep.  1875 -July  1876  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1877. 

Cariaga,  Peter  (Nov.  10,  1862  -Xmas.  1865).     R.I.P. 

Carritero,  John  (Sep.  20,  1887  -  March  1888). 

Carroll,  James  (Feb.  17,  1854  -  Oct.  1854). 

Carroll,  John  Lee  (Oct.  15,  1884 -Mid.  1888). 

Carvalho,  Jose  (Nov.  3,  1866 -Mid.  1867). 

Cary,  Charles  (Sep.  15,  1795 -Mid.  1797). 

Gary,  William  (June  30,  1800 -Nov.  1801). 

Cary,  Robert  (April  26,   1842 -March   1845),  son  of  Henry 

George  Cary,  Esq.,  of  Torr  Abbey  ;  m.  Margaret  Stockman. 
Cary,  George  Stanley,  son  of  Edward  Stanley  Cary,  of  Follaton 

(Jan.  23,  1879 -May  1882)  (Sep.  1882  -  Mid.  1885). 

Casanueva,  Carlos  (Sep.  13,  1879 -May  1881). 
Casanueva,  Sallustio,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  1879  -  May  1881). 
Cassidy,  John,  of  Monasterevan  (Aug.  17,  1839  -  Mid.  1844). 
Cassidy,  James,  of  Monasterevan  (Aug.  17,  1839 -Mid.  1846). 
Cassidy,  Robert,  of  Monasterevan  (Aug.  20,  1841  -  Mid.  1846); 
died  Nov.  28,  1867. 

Cassidy,    Robert,    son    of   James   Cassidy,   Esq.   (Sep.    29, 

1886-    ). 

Castelli,  Charles  (Aug.  1 8,  1856  -  May  1857). 
Castelli,  Nearchus,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  9,  185 7 -Xmas.  1860). 
Caswell,  Joseph  (Sep.  8,  1879 -Xmas.  1879). 
Catanack,  John  (Sep.  21,  1811  -Jan.  1813). 
Chambers,  David  (Aug.  n,  1830 -Xmas.  1831). 
Chambers,  David  (May  15,  1841  -Mid.  1841). 
Chambers,  Joseph  (Sep.  16,  1884-     )  (in  Divinity),  Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.,  1887. 

Chamorro,  Fruto  (Dec.  18,  1870 -Mid.  1873). 
Chamorro,  Jose  (Dec.  18,  1870 -Mid.  1873). 
Chamorro,  Joachim  (Dec.  18,  1870 -Mid.  1873). 

[These  three  were  sons  of  the  President  of  Nicaragua.] 


APPENDIX.  47 

Chapman,  George  (Aug.  1822 -Xmas.  1827). 
Chasseriau,  Ernest  (Oct.  21,  1878 -May  1879). 
Chaves,  Jose  (Feb.  19,  1854-  Mid.  1855). 
Chaves,  Jules,  br.  of  above  (June  13,  1854 -Mid.  1855). 

Chevers,  Michael,  J.P.,  D.L.,  of  Killyan  House,  co.  Galway, 
b.  1827  (Sep.  9,  1843 -Mid.  1846).  m.  Annie,  d.  of  Hon.  Martin 
Ffrench. 

Chevers,  Hyacinth  (Oct.  21,  1854 -Xmas.  1858). 
Chevers,  George  (Oct.  24,  1855  -Xmas.  1858). 

Chester,  Henry  (July  25,   1857 -Xmas.    1858)   (Jan.    1861 - 

Mid.  1865). 

Chisholm,  William  (Oct.  5,  1850-  Mid.  1851). 
Chisholm,  Henry  (Oct.  15,  1850- Mid.  1851). 
Chisholm,  Archibald  (Jan.  15,  1851 -Mid.  1851). 
Chitty,  Swartz  Cassie  (Nov.  16,  1853  -  Mid.  1857). 

Cholmeley,  Francis,  of  Brandsby,  b.  1783  (Aug.  9,  1798- 
June  1800),  U.L.  for  the  N.R.  co.  York,  m.  Barbara  Darell  ;  died 
May  I,  1854. 

Cholmeley,  Francis,  eldest  son  of  Francis  Cholmeley,  Esq.,  of 
Brandsby,  b.  1810  (Aug.  9,  1820 -Xmas.  1828);  m.  Harriet,  d.  of 
Charles  Fairfax,  Esq.,  of  Gilling  Castle;  died  Aug.  3,  1855. 

Cholmeley,  Henry,  br.  of  above,  b.  1812  (Feb.  15,  1823  - 
Xmas.  1830) ;  m.  Annie,  d.  of  Gerard  Strickland,  Esq.  ;  died 
Aug.  9,  1856. 

Cholmeley,  Hugh  Edward,  br.  of  above,  b.  1822  (Jan.  20, 
1832  -  Mid.  1840)  ;  m.  Isabel  Curtis  ;  died  April  16,  1870. 

Cholmeley,  Thomas  Fairfax-,  br.  of  above,  b.  1825  (Aug.  23, 
1836 -March,  1841)  ;  J.P.,  Captain  R.N.,  Retired  List;  m.  Rosalie 
St.  Quentin,  d.  of  Charles  Strickland,  Esq. 

Cholmeley,  Hugh  Charles,  son  of  Thomas  Fairfax-Cholmeley, 
Esq.  (Jan.  18,  1876 -Mid.  1884)  ;  Public  Man  from  Feb.  to  Mid., 
1884  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1883  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1884. 

Cholmeley,  Roger,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  8,  1879 -April  1884). 

Cholmeley,  William,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  21,  1884 -Mid.  1885). 

Christian,  George  (Nov.  3,  1859 -Mid.  1861). 

Clanchy,  Arthur  (Oct.  9,  1856 -Mid.  1858). 

Clarke,  William  (Aug.  n,  1837 -Mid.  1838). 

Clarkson,  Bernard  (Jan.  1857  -  Mid.  1859). 

Clarkson,  John  F.  (Sep.  16,  1859 -Mid.  1861). 


48  APPENDIX. 

Clery,  Daniel  (Aug.  18,  1852  -  Mid.  1854). 

Clery,  Richard  (Nov.  14,  1859 -Jan.  1860). 

Clifford,  Thomas  Michael  (Mar.  23,  1832  -  Mid.  1838);   died 

Feb.  14,  1848. 
Clifford,  Henry  (Mar.  23,  1832 -May  1838);   died  Oct.   25, 

1840. 

[The  last  two  mentioned,  with  their  brother,  Rev.  George  William  Clifford, 
S.J.,  were  sons  of  George  Lambert  Clifford,  Esq.] 

Coakley,  John  (Aug.  n,  1859 -Dec.  1864). 
Codrington,  William  Frederick  (Sep.  10,  1872 -Mid.  1875). 

Codrington,    Arthur   John    (Jan.    14,    1873  -  Xmas.    1874); 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1883. 
Codrington,   Alexander  Edward  (Jan.  14,  1873 -Mid.  1880), 

sons  of  William  Wyndham  Codrington,  Esq  ,  of  Wroughton. 

Colegrave,  John  Manby,  son  of  William  Manby,  Esq.,  of  Cann 
Hall,  b.  1811  (Aug.  14,  1823 -Nov.  1828);  Lieut.  3rd  Light 
Dragoons  ;  m.  Louise  Marie  Isaac ;  took  the  name  of  Colegrave, 
1868  ;  died  Jan.  17,  1879. 

Colegrave,  William  Manby,  br.  of  above,  b.  1819  (Jan.  13, 
1830 -Xmas.  1836)  ;  m.  Eleanor  Walmesley. 

Colegrave,  Francis,  br.  of  above,  b.  1824  (Aug.  12,  1833- 
Mid.  1839)  ;  m.  Elizabeth  Chichester.  R.I.P. 

Colegrave,  Thomas  Manby,  son  of  John  Manby  Colegrave, 
Esq.,  b.  1847  (Sep.  10,  1859 -Mid.  1864);  m.,  ist,  Alice,  d.  of 
Colonel  Stewart  ;  2ndly,  Alice,  d.  of  Fred.  Cayley  Worsley,  Esq. 

Colegrave,  Edward,  son  of  William  Manby  Colegrave,  Esq., 

(Feb.  23,  1857  -  March  1864). 
Colegrave,  Francis,  son  of  Francis  Colegrave,  Esq.  (Aug.  19, 

1858 -Mid.  1864.)     R.I.P. 
Colegrave,  Hubert,  son  of  Edward  Colegrave,  Esq.  (Sep.  12, 

1881-    ). 
Colegrave,  Henry  Manby,  son  of  Edward  Colegrave,  Esq. 

(Sep.  17,  1883-    ). 
Colegrave,  Oswald,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  15,  1884-    ). 

Cologan,  Eustace  (July  7,  1855  -Oct.  1857)  ;  died  in  Teneriffe, 

Canaries,  Sep.  19,  1863. 

[He  and  his  brother,  the  Rev.  W.  Cologan,  Secretary  of  the  Catholic  Truth 
Society,  were  sons  of  John  Anthony  Cologan,  Marquis  of  Sausal], 

Coltsman,  John  (Nov.  9,  1809,  April,  1811). 
Comerford,  Edward  (Sep.  13,  1876 -Mid.  1882). 


APPENDIX.  49 

Comerford,  Owen,  br.  of  above  (May  4,  1880 -Xmas.  1883). 
Comerford,  James,  br.  of  above  (May  4,  1880 -Xmas.  1881). 
Comyn,  John  (Aug.  8,  1828- April  1831). 

Comyn,  Francis,  son  of  Francis  Comyn,  Esq.,  b.  1835 
(March  11,  i847-Mid.  1850);  J.P.,  High  Sheriff,  Galway,  1868; 
m.  Cecilia  Gertrude  Bourke. 

Comyn,  Walter  Bourke,  son  of  above  (Oct.  7,  1885  -  Mid.  1887). 

Comyn,   Sarsfield,  br.  of  Francis  Comyn  (March   n,    1847- 

Mid.  1850). 

Comyn,  Nicholas  O'Connell,  son  of  Andrew  Comyn,  Esq., 
m.  Mary,  d.  of  John  O'Connell,  M.P.  for  Clonmel  (April  25, 
1882 -Mid.  1886). 

Comyns,  Patrick  (Sep.  14,  1844 -Mid.  1847. 
Conolly,  William  (Aug.  30,  1803  -  Mid.  1804). 
Conolly,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  30,  1803 -May  1807). 
Conolly,  Mercer  (July  9,  1842  -  Xmas.  1843). 
Constante,  Manuel  (Feb.  20,  1847 -Feb.  1848). 
Coombs,  Henry  (April  1851  -  May  1852)  (in  Divinity). 
Cooper,  Bernard  (March  2,  1843 -Mid.  I^43). 
Cope,  John  (Jan.  1825  -  Mid.  1826). 

Coppinger,  John,  of  Middleton  (April  19,  1855  -  Mid.  1857) ; 

died  June  16,  1862. 
Coppinger,  Thomas,  of  Middleton,  br.  of  above,  J.P.,  Cork 

(April  19,  1855 -Xmas.  1856). 

Corballis,  Richard  (Sep.  i,  1841  -Mid.  1849). 

Corballis,  Edward   (Aug.  1845  -  Mid.    1853);    died  Dec.  10, 

1873- 
Corballis,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  21,  1849  -  Mid.    1855); 

died  June  28,  1880. 

Corballis,  James,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  16,  1854 -Mid.  1860), 
Lieut.-Col.  iO3rd  Reg. ;  Good  Conduct  Medal  1860. 

Corbally,  Matthew,  of  Corbalton  (Sep.  30,  1808 -Mid.  1814), 

M.P.,  m.  Hon.  Matilda   Preston,  d.  of  I2th  Viscount  Gormanston  ; 
died  Nov.  25.  1870. 

Cordovez,  Domingo  (Sep.  26,  1884 -Mid.  1885). 
Corgan,  George  (Jan.  29,  1795 -Oct.  I796)- 
Corgan,  William,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  29,  1795 -Dec.  T799)- 
Cornells,  A.  (Sep.  10,  1865  -Jan.  1866)  (in  Divinity). 


50  APPENDIX. 

Corpi,  Theodore  (Jan.  27,  1853  -  Xmas.  1855). 
Corpi,  Angelo,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  27,  1853 -Sep.  1856). 

Corpi,  Angelo,  cousin  of  above  (Aug.  12,  1858) ;  died  at  Oscott, 
Dec.  7, 1858. 

Corrons,  Evaristo  (Jan.  29,  1836- Mid.  1837). 
Cossio,  Mathias  (May  6,  1858);  died  May  18,  1863. 

Cestello,  Daniel  (June  29,  1848);  died  at  Oscott,  March  4, 

1849. 

Cotton,  Robert  (Sep.  u,  i8i8-Jan.  1821). 
Cotton,  Thomas  (March  31,  1884- Mid.  1885). 
Coupe,  John,  B.A.  (1839-1841);  B.A.  Lond.  Univ.,  1841. 

Coveny,  Robert  Charles  (Oct.  26,  1859 -March  1861),  b. 
1842  ;  joined  the  23rd  Welsh  Fusiliers  in  1862  ;  exchanged  for  the 
42nd  Royal  Highlanders  ;  Captain,  May  8,  1875  ;  Major.  Sep.  29, 
1882;  Brev.  Lieut.-Col.,  1882;  served  with  his  regiment  in  the 
Ashantee  War  of  1874,  being  present  at  the  battles  of  Amoaful 
and  Ordahsu  and  at  the  capture  of  Coomassie  (medal  with  clasp)  ; 
served  also  in  the  Egyptian  Expedition  of  1882,  being  present  at  the' 
battle  of  Tel-el-Kebir,  where  he  was  severely  wounded  (medal  with 
clasp,  and  Khedive's  star)  ;  also  present  with  his  regiment  at  the 
battles  of  Tamai  and  Teb  (two  clasps)  ;  killed  leading  the  bayonet 
charge  of  the  Black  Watch,  which  decided  the  battle  of  Kerbekan, 
Feb.  10,  1885. 

Coveny,  Christopher  John,  B.A.,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  26,  1859  - 
Nov.  1865) ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1864,  26th  in  Honours  ;  Intermed. 
Arts,  1865,  3rd  in  ist  Class  in  Latin. 

Coveny,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  26,  1859 -April  1867); 
died  Dec.  8,  1884. 

Cowan,  Joseph  (March  i,  1854 -Mid.  1855).     R.I.P. 

Cowan,   Patrick,   br.   of  above  (March  i,  1854- Mid.   1857), 

Captain  59th  Regiment. 

Cox,  Joseph  (Aug.  9,  1836- Aug.  1840). 
Cox,  Hugh  (Jan.  21,  1888  -      ). 
Coxon,   Atwell,  nephew  of  Canon   Coxon  (Sep.   15,    1884- 

Mid.  1885). 

Coyle,  William  (July  1839 -Oct.  1841). 

Crawford,  Raymund  (Feb.  8,  1870  -  Mid.  1871),  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.,  1876  ;  Intermed.  Arts,  1878. 

Crispin,  George  (Jan,  13,  1851 -April  1852). 

Crook,  John  (Aug.  8,  1805  -Mid.  1810). 

Crook,  George  (Sep.  6,  1798- Mid.  1803),  died  April  21,  1863. 


APPENDIX.  5 1 

Crooke,  Francis  (June  7,  1827  -Nov.  1831). 
Crooke,  Michael  (April  19,  1836 -Mid.  1838). 
Crooke,  Francis  (Jan.  1885 -Mid.  1885). 
Cronin-Coltsmann,  Daniel,  of  Glenflesk  Castle,  D.L.,  J.P., 

High    Sheriff,    1847,    b.    1816    (April    29,    1828  -  Mid.    1835),   m. 
Helenp.  Lyons. 

Cronin,  John  Louis  (April  29,  1838 -Mid.  1836),  m.  Minnie 
MacDonnell ;  was  Resident  Magistrate  of  Cork  ;  died  Sep.  II,  1867. 

Cronin,  George  (Aug.  27,  1846 -Mid.  1848). 

Cronin,  James  (Aug.  27,  1846-  Mid.  1847). 

Cronin,  Dominic  (Aug.  1847  -  Mid.  1848). 

Cronin,  John  H.,  son  of  John  Louis  Cronin,  Esq.   (Sep.   i, 

1 862 -May,  1868). 

Cronin,  Daniel,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1864 -Mar.  1868). 
Cronin,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  12,  1866-  Mid.  1866). 
Cuadra,  Bonaventure  (Sep.  3,  1839  -  Xmas.  1840). 
Cuadra,  Henry  (Dec.  4,  185  8 -Mid.  1859). 
Cuadra,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Dec.  4,  1858 -Mid.  1859). 
Cullen,  Luke  (Aug.  17,  1836 -Xmas.  1840). 

Culley,  Matthew,  of  Coupland  Castle  (April  17,  1888-     ) ;  (in 

Divinity). 

Cullinan,  Patrick  (Sep.  1872 -Xmas.  1875). 
Cullinan,  Joseph  E.,  br.  of  above  (Sep.   1872 -Mid.    1877); 

Lieut.  Royal  Irish  Regiment. 

Cunningham,  Charles  (Jan.  8,  1874 -Xmas.  1874). 

Curran,  Rev.  William  (Sep.  17,  1886-     );  (in  Divinity). 

Curten,  William  (Oct.  3,  1883 -Xmas.  1883);  (in  Divinity). 

Da  Costa,  John  (Feb.  10,  1824 -Mid.  1829). 

Da  Costa,  Jose  (Sep.  17,  1877  -  Mid.  1880). 

Daly,    Malachy   Joseph    (Sep. '20,    1808 -Mid.    1812);    died 

Aug.  23,  1865. 
Daly,  Thomas  (Nov.  25,   1809 -Xmas.  1812),  brother  of  Sir 

Dominic  Daly. 
Daly,  Hyacinth,  of  Raford  (Aug.  20,  1827  -Nov.  1828)  ;  'died 

Nov.  5,  1836. 
Daly,  John  Archer  (Blake),  J.P.,  D.L.  (Aug.  12,  1846 -Mid. 

1850),  son  of  Andrew  Blake.  Esq.,  of  Furbough  ;  took  the  name  of 

Daly  on  succeeding  to  the  estates  of  his  grand-uncle.  Hyacinth  Daly, 

Esq.,   of  Raford  ;   m.  Lady  Anne,  d.  of  9th  Earl  of  Westmeath  ; 

Lieut.-Col.  Galway  Militia. 


52  APPENDIX. 

Daly,  Denis  Andrew,  son  of  John  Archer  Daly,  Esq.  (May  5, 
1878  -  Mid.  1882)  ;  Lieut.  Royal  Irish  Regiment. 

Daly,  Dominic,  son  of  Sir  Dominic  Daly  (Sep.  19,  1840-  Mid. 

1844). 
Daly,  Malachy,  son  of  Sir  Dominic  Daly  (Nov.  21,  1846  -May 

1854)  ;  Public  Man,  Aug.  -  Dec.  1852. 

Daly,  Allan  McNab,  son  of  Hon.  John  George  Daly  (June  1 3, 

1878 -Oct.  1880.) 
Daly,  Malachy  Joseph,    son  of  Malachy  Joseph   Daly,  Esq. 

(May  10,  1854 -Mid.  1861)  ;  Public  Man.  Aug.  1860 -March  1861  ; 

died  Sep.  14,  1865. 
Daly,    Dominic,    son   of  the    Hon.    Dominic   Daly  (Jan.  21, 

1888-     ). 
Daly,    James,    of    Dunsandle    (Sep.    26,    1866 -Mid.    1871); 

Lieut.  24th  Reg. ;  killed  at  Isandwala  Jan.  22,  1879. 
Daly,  Bowes,  R.N.,  of  Dunsandle,  br.  of  above   (Sep.  1868- 

Xmas  1870). 

Daly,  Eugene  (Feb.  24,  1879 -June  1880). 

D'Andria,  Peter  (May  13,  1865  -Mid.  1867). 

D'Arcy,  Peter  (Feb.  9,  1802 -Dec.  1803). 

D'Arcy,  John  (Sep.  i87o-Mid.  1872);  died  April  6,  1874. 

D'Arcy,  William  (Sep.  1870 -Mid.  1873). 

D'Arcy,  James  (Sep.  1870 -Mid.  1874). 

D'Arcy,  Matthew  Stephen  (April  26,  1883 -Xmas.  1884). 

[  The  last  four  are  sons  of  Matthew  D'Arcy,  Esq..  of  Kilcroney.J 
Dardis,  Christopher  (Jan.  10,  1809 -Feb.  1809). 
D'Arrochella,  Hector  (Sep.  18,  1858 -Mid.  1862). 
Da  Silva,  Manuel  (July  27,  1839 -Xmas.  1840). 
Davenport,    Harold,   F.  R.  C.  S.    Dublin  (April    30,     1867- 

Mid.  1869). 

Davenport,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (April  30,  1867  -  Mid.  1870). 
Davey,  Robert  (Aug.  18,  1808 -Mid.  1809). 
Davey,  George,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  7,  1809 -Xmas.  1809). 
Davey,  George  (Sep.  7,  1862 -Mid.  1864). 
Davis,  William  (Jan.  1844 -Feb.  1849)  (in  Divinity). 
Davis,  Moyle  (1862-1863)  (in  Divinity). 
Daw,  Ernest  (Jan.  31,  1872 -Mid.  1872)  (in  Divinity). 
Day,  James  (June  12,  1830 -Dec.  1834). 


APPENDIX.  53 

Day,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (March  24,  1831 -Dec.  1833). 

Dearlove,  Thomas  (Aug.  12,  1839 -Mid.  1840). 

Dease,  James  Arthur,  of  Turbotston,  J.P.,  D.L.,  Vice-Lieut,  of 

Cavan,  b.  1826  (Nov.  8.  i84O-Mid.  1844) ;  m.  Charlotte  Jerningham  ; 

died  Sep.  4,   1874;    one  of  the  Commissioners    of  the  Board  of 

National  Education  in  Ireland. 

Dease,  Gerald,  son  of  James  Arthur  Dease,  Esq.,  of  Turbotston, 
b.  1854  (Sep.  1865  -  May  1874),  Captain  7th  Royal  Fusiliers, 
Public  Man,  Sep.  1872 -July  1873,  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1873. 

Dease,  Edmund,  br.  of  above,  b.  1857  (Sep.  1868 -Mid.  1875). 
Dease,   Edmund   James,    son   of  Edmund    Dease,    M.P.  for 

Queen's  Co.  (June  4,  1873  -  Mid.  1878), 

Dease,  Louis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  19,  1879 -Xmas.  1884). 
Deasy,  Rickard  Joseph,  son  of  Judge  Deasy  (May  n,  1875- 

Mid.  1875)  ;  died  Aug.  5,  1881. 
De  Bary,  Richard  Lerins,  son  of  Richard  Browne  De  Bary, 

Esq.,  b.  1841  (Aug.  23,   1854 -Mid.   1859),  m.  Mary  Paulina,  d.  of 

Sir  Edward'  Mostyn,  Bart. 

De  Bary,  Peter,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  23,  1854 -Mid.  1861). 
De  Bary,  Richard  Brome,  son  of  Richard  Lerins  de  Bary,  Esq. 

(April  27,  1876 -Nov.  1878). 

De  Balaine,  Edward  Dump  (Sep.  26,  1865  -  Mid.  1869). 
De  Balaine,  Charles  Durup,  br.   of  above  (Sep.   26,   1865  - 

Mid.  1866)  ;  died  Aug.  31,  1 880. 

De  Balaine,  Edgar  Durup,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  1877- 
Mid.  1881)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1881. 

De  Bersolle,  John  (Sep.  22,  1871 -Mid.  1874). 

De  Castro,  Alfred  (Sep.  1870 -Oct.  1871). 

De  Castro,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  i8io-Oct.  1871). 

De  Dree,  Alphonse  (Sep.  15,  i8i8-Mid.  1820). 

Deering,  James  (Jan.  17,  1838- Xmas.  1838). 

Deevey,  J.  C.  (Jan.  1848 -March  1849)  (in  Divinity). 

De  Gerin,  Constantine  (Nov.  13,  1845  -April  1846). 

De  la  Bere,  Launcelot  (Sep.  27,  1880 -April  1884). 

De  la  Cruz,  Joseph  (Oct.  4,  1838 -May  1839). 

De  la  Fontaine,  Victor  (Sep.  13,  1886-    ),  son  of  Col.  Mottet 

de  la  Fontaine. 
De  la  Torre,  Gomez  (Sep.  17,  1885 -April  1886). 


54  APPENDIX. 

De  Laussat,  Leopold  (Sep.  9,  1852 -Mid.  1854). 

De  la  Vega,  Florence  (March  12,  1864 -Mid.  1864). 

Del  Barrio,  Philip  (Oct.  19,  1883 -Mid.  1884). 

De  Lisle,  Ambrose  March-Phillipps,  J.P.,  D.L.  (Aug.  20,  1849- 

Mid.  1852),  son  of  Ambrose  Lisle  March-Phillipps  De  Lisle,  Esq.,  of 
Garendon  Park  and  Grace  Dieu,  b.  1834,  m.,  1st,  Fiances  Amelia, 
d.  of  Sir  Richard  Sutton,  Bart.  ;  2ndly,  Hon.  Violet,  d.  of  Lord 
Sandys  ;  Public  Man,  Sep.  1851  -June  1852;  died  Nov.  27,  1883. 

De  Lisle,  Everard  Phillipps,  V.C.,  brother  of  above  (Aug.  20, 
1849 -Mid.  1852),  b.  1835  ;  6oth  Rifles;  fell  at  Delhi,  after  winning 
the  Victoria  Cross,  Sep.  17,  1857. 

De  Lisle,  Osmund,  br.  of  above,  b.  1847  (Aug.  15,  1857- 
Mid.  1866;  Public  Man,  Jan. -July,  1866;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ., 
1865  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1886  ;  died  Oct.  17,  1869. 

De  Lisle,  Francis,  br.  of  above,  b.  185 2  (Aug.  23,  1862-  Mid. 
1868),  m.  Emma  Thompson,  of  Brookhampton,  Western  Australia; 
died  May  8,  1883. 

De  Lisle,  Edwin  Lisle,  F.S.A,  br.  of  the  above,  b.  1853 
(Nov.  7,  1863  -  Mid.  1870)  (Sep.  1871  -  Mid.  1872)  ;  M.P.  for  Mid- 
Leicestershire  ;  Public  Man,  Jan.  -  July  1872 ;  Good  Conduct 
Medal  1872. 

De  Lisle,  Rudolph,  br.  of  the  above,  b.  1854  (Sep.  23,  1865  - 

Mid.  1866)  ;  Lieut.  R.N. ;  joined  in  1869  H.M.S.  Cadmus ;  in  1870 
H.M.S.  Liverpool ;  in  H.M.S.  Cameleon  during  the  war  between 
Peru  and  Chili,  and  was  rewarded  for  his  braveiy  at  the  burning  of 
Lima;  Sub-Lieut.  1873,  Lieut.  1877;  joined  the  Nile  Expedition 
in  1884  under  Commodore  Hammill  ;  was  killed  at  the  battle  of 
Abu  Klea,  in  the  Soudan,  Jan.  17,  1885. 

De  Lisle,  Gerard  Lisle,  br.  of  the  above,  b.  1860  (Sep.  1871  - 
Mid.  1875)  (Sep.  1876  -  Mid.  1877). 

De  Lizaur,  Joseph  (Aug.  18,  1828 -Mid.  1830). 

Del  Olmo,  Gennaro  (Jan.  22,  1883 -Mid.  1883). 

De  los  Rios,  Peter  (Jan.  1862  -Mid.  1865).     R.I.P. 

Del  Valle,  Emmanuel  (May  22,  1883  -  Xmas  1884). 

Del  Valle,  William,  br.  of  above  (May  22,  1883-     ). 

De  Mussy,  Philip  Gueneau  (Sep.  28,  1867 -June  1871). 

Dennehy,   Richard  (Sep.  25,  1825 -Mid.  1827). 

Dennehy,  Francis,  br.  of  the  above  (Sep.  25,  1825  -  Mid.  1827). 

Dennehy,  William  (Aug.  30,  1841  -Xmas,  1841). 

De  Regil,  Maximilian  (May  15,  1883 -Mid.  1885) 


APPENDIX.  55 

De  Sa,  Damasus  (Sep.  20,  1808 -Oct.  1810). 

De  Sarratea,  Martin  (June  18,  1826-  Mid.  1831). 

De  Sarratea,  Mariano,  br.  of  above  (June  18,  i826-Mid.  1831). 

De  Souza,  Louis  (Dec.  4,  i84o-Xmas.  1841). 

De  Souza,  Melitao  (April  i,  1848 -April  1849). 

De  Souza,  Walter  (Sep.  7,  1858 -Mid.  1859). 

De  Souza,  Clarence,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  7,  1858 -Mar.  1859). 

De  Souza,  Anselmo  (Nov.  16,  1866 -Mid.  1868). 

De  Trafford,  Sigismund  Cathcart  (Sep.  8,  1864 -April  1870), 
son  of  John  Randolphus  De  Trafford  of  Croston  Hall,  b.  1853  ; 
late  14th  Regiment ;  m.  Clementina,  d.  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  Bart. 

De  Trafford,  Galfrid,  br.  of  above  (April  14,  1868 -Xmas. 

1872),  b.  1856,  Lieut.  7th  Royal  Fusiliers  ;  m.  Cecile  de  Stacpoole, 
d.  of  Comte  Hubert  de  Stacpoole. 

De  Trafford,  Randolphus,  br.  of  above,  b.  1857  (April  14,  1868- 

Xmas.  1873). 

Devaux,  Alexander  (Sep.  29,  1870 -Mid.  1878). 

Devereux,  Richard  (Sep.  6,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 

De  Ville,  Victor  (Sep.  9,  1878 -Mid.  1880). 

Devlet,  Ferhat  (Dec.  1855 -May  1856). 

Dey,  James  (Sep.  17,  1883-     );  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1887. 

De  Zurutuza,  Luke  (Nov.  15,  1838- Jan.  1840). 

Diaz,  Leandro  (April  12,  1866 -Mid.  1871). 

Diaz,  Ricardo,  br.  of  the  above  (Sep.  1868 -Mid.  1871). 

Dick,  Archibald  (Jan.  1862 -Oct.  1862). 

Dick,  Barrington,  br.  of  the  above  (Jan.  1862 -Oct.  1862). 

Digby,  Thomas  (Sep.  1852  -Xmas.  1852)  (in  Divinity). 

Dillon,  Luke  (Feb.  5,  1832 -March  1834). 

Dillon,  John  (Aug.  13,  1832 -May  1834). 

Dillon,  John  (Aug.  27,  1 846 -Feb.  1848). 

Dillon,  Louis,  vide  FitzGibbon. 

Dini,  Augustus  (Oct.  31,   1843  -  May  .1846)  ;   died   Oct.   26, 

1866. 
Dobson,  William  (Sep.  6,  1867  -Xmas.  1868);  m.  Mary,  d.  of 

E.  Flint,  Esq. 

Dobson,  C.  M.  (Feb.  n,  1884 -June  26,  1884)  (in  Divinity). 
Doherty,  James  J.  (Sep.  15,  1877 -Mid.  1878)  (in  Divinity). 


56  APPENDIX. 

Dolman,  Maraiaduke  (Jan.  13,  1854 -Mid.  1857). 
Dolman,  George,  br.  of  above  (April  20,  1854  -  Mid.  1860). 
Donegan,  Richard  (March  4,  1854 -Mid.  1855). 
Donelan,  Stephen  (July  4,  1803  -June  1806). 
Donelan,  John,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  6,  1803  -  Dec.  1809) ;  died 

May  17,  1831. 

Donelan,  Patrick,  br.  of  above  (June  7,  1804 -May  1811). 
Donelan,  Matthew,  br.  of  above  (June  7,  1804- May  1811). 

Donelan,  Malachy,  br.  of  above  (Sep  15,   1812 -Sep.    1817). 
died  Sep.  21,  1831. 

Donelan,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1814 -Sep.  1817). 
Donnet,  James  (Sep.  6,  1867 -April  1871). 

Donohoe,  Thomas,  B.A.  (April  8,  1839 -Sep.   1839);   Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.,  1839. 
Donohoe,  Denis,  br.  of  above  (April  8,   1839 -Mid.   1840); 

British  Consul  for  the  Western  Provinces  of  the  United  States,  1882. 
Doriga,  Louis  (April  15,  1885 -May  i,  1885). 

Dormer,    Roland,    son   of    Major-General   the   Hon.    James 

Dormer  (May^io,  1873 -April  12,  1879). 
Dormer,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (May  10,  1873 -Xmas.  I%76) ', 

Lieut.  R.N. 
Dormer,  Edward  Henry,   son  of  the  Hon.  Hubert  Dormer 

(April  12.  1882 -Xmas.  1882). 

Dowdall,  Hamilton  (Aug.  22,  1815 -July  1819). 
Dowdall,  Peter  (May  3,  1834 -Mid.  1835). 

Downes,  John,  Rev.  (Sep.  8,  1879 -Mid.  1881)  (Oct.  1884- 

Mid.  1885)  (in.Divinity). 

Dowson,  Harry  (Jan.  28,  1852 -Mid.  1855). 
Dowson,  Frederic,  br.  of  above  (Jan  28,  1852 -Mid.  1857). 
Doyenhard,  Louis  (Oct.  10,  1887 -Xmas.  1887). 
Duboulay,  Augustus  (Sep.  27,  1848 -Xmas.  1850). 
Duboulay,   Alexander,  br.    of  above    (Sep.    27,   1848 -Mid. 

1852). 
Duff,  Robert,  Knight  Commander  of  the  Portuguese  Royal 

Order  of  Christ  (Aug.  II,  1821  -Aug.  1823). 
Duff,  Dominic  (Aug.  n,  1821  -June  1826). 
Duff,  James  (May  24,  1824 -Mid.  1830). 
Duff,  Anthony  (Oct.    28,    1825 -Oct.    1833);    Good  Conduct 

Medal  1833. 


APPENDIX.  57 

Duff,  John  (April  u,  1831 -Mid.  1838). 

Duff,  John  (Nov.  5,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 

Dufougeray,  Florentine  (April  29.  1859 -March  1860). 

Dufreche,  Paul  (Oct.  18,  1870 -Mid.  1871). 

Dugmore,  William  Radclyffe,  lyth  Lancers  (Sep.  15,  1881 - 
Mid.  1883)  (Feb.  1885  -Mid.  1886),  son  of  Captain  Francis  Sandys 
Dugmore,  and  grandson  of  2nd  Baron  Brougham  and  Vaux. 

Du  Moulin- Browne,  Charles  (April  i,   i86i-Mid.  1869); 

declared  by  the  Herald's  College  entitled  to  bear  the  arms  of  Browne 
as  heir-general  and  sole  representative  of  the  Brownes  of  Ease- 
bourne  and  of  Mark  Anthony,  gth  and  last  Viscount  Montagu  ;  m. 
Winifred  Mary,  d.  of  H.  Bacchus,  Esq.,  of  Leamington,  July  27, 
'  1881  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1868 ;  Good  Conduct  Medal  1869. 

Du  Moulin,  Arthur,  B.A.  (Sep.  6,  1866 -Mid.  1874)  ;  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.  1873,  2oth  in  honours ;  B.A.  1875  ;  returned  in 
Divinity  (Sep.  1876 -March  1878) ;  died  Aug.  23,  1878. 

Dunn,  Albert  (Jan.  19,  1855  -Xmas.  1856). 

Dunn,  James  E.  (Oct.  14,  1877 -Mid.  1878);  died  April  23, 
1881. 

Dunn,  James   Colmore,    M.A.    (Sep.    10,    1881  -  Mid.   1884) 

(in  Divinity). 

Du  Saussey,  George  (Jan.  24,  1821  -Mid.  1824). 
Dutton,  Hiram  (Aug.  14,  1838 -Xmas.  1840). 
Dutton,  Aaron  (Aug.  17,  1861  -Mid.  1864). 
Dutton,  Herbert  (Sep.  14,  1886-     ). 
Dwyer,  Edward  (Sep.  6,  1838-  Mid.  1840). 

Eaton,  Stephen  Ormston,  son  of  Charles  Ormston  Eaton,  Esq., 
of  Tolethorpe  (Sep.  1871  -  Xmas.  1872)  (Sep.  1874  -  Mid.  1877); 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1877. 

Eccles,  Frederick  (Aug  25,  1814 -Sep.  1817). 

Eccleston,  Thomas  (Aug.  27,  1799- Mid.  1801). 

Eckersley,  John  (Sep.  15,  1851 -Feb.  1853). 

Egan,  Eugene  (Aug.  27,  1827 -Jan.  1828). 

Egan,John  (Oct.  i,  1845 -Sep.  1847). 

Egan,  Edward  (Aug.  20,  1850 -Xmas.  1851). 

Ellis,  Robert  (May  15,  1873 -May  16,  1873). 

Ellison,  Michael  (Aug.  21,  1828 -Mid.  1834). 

Ellison,  Thomas  (Jan.  14,  1830 -Mid.  1835). 

Ellison,  Thomas  M.  (Aug.  n,  1834 -Xmas.  1838);  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.  1842. 


58  APPENDIX. 

Elmsley,  Sherwood  (Sep.  18,  1886-    ). 
Elmsley,  John,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  26,  1887-     ). 

Englefield,  Henry  (Sep.  20,  1814 -June  1823)  ;  m.  Catherine 
Silvertop  William,  d.  of  Henry  Thomas  Silvertop,  Esq..  who 
assumed  the  name  of  Witham.  He  was  the  father  of  the  late 
Henry  Charles  Silvertop,  Esq.,  of  Minster  Acres. 

English,  Alban  (Sep.  26,  i86i-Mid.  1863). 

English,  Richard  (Sep.  26,  i86i-Mid.  1864). 

English,   Ferdinand  (Sep.  1863  -  Mid.  - 1868) ;    died  Sep.   5, 

1875- 
English,  Bernard  (Sep.  19,  1872 -Feb.  1874). 

[  The  four  last  mentioned,  with  their  brother,  Monsignor  Edgar  English, 
were  sons  of  Alban  Huddleston  English,  Esq.] 

Escalante,  Louis  Benito  (May  21,  1887-  March  1888). 

Esmonde,  Lawrence  Grattan,   br.  of  Sir  Thomas  Esmonde, 

Bart.,  M.P.  (Jan.  18.  1876 -Nov.  1882). 
Esmonde,  Walter   Grattan,    br.    of    above   (Jan.    26,    1885- 

Mid.  1886). 
Esmonde,  Geoffry  Grattan,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  26,  1885 -Mid. 

1886). 

Esmonde,  James  (April  3,  1877 -Mid.  1877). 
Esmonde,  John  (Sep.  13,  1876 -April  1880). 
Esmonde,  Charles  (May  25,  i877-Mid.  1878)  (Sep.  1879- 

Mid.  1880). 

[  The  three  last  mentioned  were  sons  of  James  Esmonde,  Esq.,  of 
Drominagh,  second  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Esmonde,  gth  Baronet.] 

EspantOSO,  William    (Jan.    21,    1884 -Mid.    1887);    Public 

Man,  Jan.  -  June  1887. 
EspantOSO,  Philip,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  21,  1884  -  Mid.  1887) ; 

Public  Man,  Mid.  -  Xmas.  1886. 
Eyre,   Vincent  Anthony,   of  Lindley    (Aug     17,    i8i8-June 

1825)  ;  son  of  Vincent  Eyre,  Esq.,  of  llighfield  and  Newbold  :  1). 

1809  ;  m.  Jane  Frances  Huddleston  ;  died  March  22.  1887. 

Eyre,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  22,  1821  -June  1825). 

Eyre,  Vincent,  son  of  Vincent  Eyre,  Esq.,  of  Lindley  (Jan. 
H,  1854-  Mid.  1858)  ;  late  Capt.  6th  Dragoons;  m.  Barbara,  d.  of 
Thomas  Giffard,  Esq.,  of  Chillington. 

Eyre,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Nov.  13,  1865 -Nov.  1866);  m. 
Julia  O'Conor. 

Eyre,  Hubert,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  3,  1865  -Xmas.  1866). 


APPENDIX.  59 

Eyre,  Ferdinand,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  3,  1865  -April  1866);  m. 
Gabrielle,  d.  of  Sir  Henry  Bedingfeld,  Bart. 

Eyre,  Walter  (Aug.  12,  1857 -Mid.   1859);    son  of  Stephen 

Eyre,  Esq.,  solicitor,  Liverpool. 

Eyston,  Charles,  of  East  Hendred,  J.P.,  D.L. ;  High  Sheriff 
1831;-  b.  1790  (Jan.  30,  1805 -June  1808)  ;  m.  Maria  Theresa 
Metcalfe  ;  Public  Man,  1835-37.;  died  Feb.  24,  1857. 

Eyston,  Basil,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  30,  1805  -June  1807);  m. 
Catherine  Langford  ;  died  Jan.  13,  1861. 

Eyston,  George,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  21,  i8io-Dec.  1813); 
died  Oct.  19,  1880. 

Eyston,  Ferdinand,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  28,  1812  -  April  1815)  ; 

died  May  16.  1869. 
Eyston,  John,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  28,  1812  -  May  1820);  died 

Nov.  30,  1849. 
Eyston,  John,  of  Welford  (Aug.  20,  1812 -June  1814);  died 

May  30,  1882. 
Eyston,    Charles    John,    of    Hendred,    J.P. ;    eldest    son   of 

Charles  Eyston,   Esq.,  of  Hendred  ;  b.  1817  (Aug.  17,  1830-  Mid. 

1837)  ;    m.   Agnes   Mary,  d.  of  Michael    Blount,  Esq.,  of  Maple- 

durham  ;  died  Feb.  19,  1883. 

Eyston,  George  Basil,  second  son  of  Charles  Eyston,  Esq.,  of 
Hendred  ;  b.  1820  (Aug.  17,  1830 -Mid.  1838)  ;  m.  Maria  Theresa, 
d.  of  George  Whitgreave,  Esq..  of  Moseley. 

Eyston,  Robert  Thomas,  third  son  of  Charles  Eyston,  Esq.,  of 
Hendred  ;  G.  1828  (Aug.  20,  1840  -  Dec.  1847)  ;  m.  Louisa  Frances, 
d.  of  Hon.  Charles  Petre ;  Public  Man,  Jan.  -  Aug.  1847  ;  died 
April  24,  1887. 

Eyston,  Thomas  More,  eldest   son  of  Charles  John   Eyston, 

Esq.,  of  Hendred  ;  b.  1864  (March  27,  1875  -Mid.  1880). 
Eyston,  John,  second  son  of  Charles  John  Eyston,  Esq. ;  b. 

1867  (April  29,  1878 -Mid.  1880). 

Eyston,  Charles,  third  son  of  Charles  John  Eyston,  Esq.  ;  b. 

1868  (April  29.  1878  -  Mid.  1880). 

Eyston,  Francis,  son  of  George  Basil  Eyston,  Esq.,  of 
Stanford  Place,  Faringdon  ;  b.  1853  (Sep.  25,  1863  -  Xmas.  1869)  ; 
m.  Angela,  d.  of  William  Vavasour,  Esq.,  of  Hazlewood  Castle. 

Eyston,   Edward   Robert,   son  of  Robert    Eyston,   Esq. ;   b. 

1865  (Sep.  17,  1877  -  Xmas  1880). 
Pagan,  John  (July  15,  1831  -  Mid.  1838). 
Fagan,  James,  br.  of  above  (July  15,  1831  -  Mid.  1838). 
Fagan,  Christopher,  br.  of  above  (July  15,  1831  -Mid.  1839). 


6o 


APPENDIX. 


Pagan,  Hornby  (Sep.  20,  1847 -Mid.  1849);  killed  acci- 
dentally in  India. 

Falanga,  John  (Nov,  5,  1855  -  Aug.  1856). 

Fanning,  John  (March  8,  1840  -  March  1842). 

Farrell,  John  Arthur,  of  Moynalty,  J.P.,  D.L. ;  High  Sheriff 
1857  (April  22,  1838  -  Mid.  1843)  ;  eldest  son  of  John  Farrell,  Esq., 
of  Moynalty;  late  Capt.  Royal  Meath  Militia;  m.  Hon.  Lucretia 
Pauline  Preston,  d.  of  Viscount  Gormanston. 

Farrell,  Francis  Arthur,  br.  of  above  ;  b.  1828  (April  22, 
1838 -Nov.  1841)  ;  late  7th  Hussars 

Farrell,  Albert  Charles,  br.  of  above;  b.  1840  (Sep.  17,  1852- 

Xmas.  1852)  ;  died  Dec.  19,  1852. 
Farrell,   John  Edward,   eldest  son   of  John  Arthur   Farrell, 

Esq.,  of  Moynalty;    b.    1861   (Sep.   17.   1873  -  Mid.  1878);  Lieut. 

6th  Foot. 
Farrell,  Edward  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1874  -  Xmas. 

1874). 

Farrell,  Valentine,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1875  -Mid.  1878). 
Farrell,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  29,  1880 -March  1883). 
Farrell,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  29,  1880 -Mid.  1882). 

Farrell,  Thomas,  M.A.,  son  of  the  late  Mr.  Commissioner 
Farrell,  Q.C.  (Sep.  15,  1841  -  Mid.  1844)  ;  barrister-at-law  :  died 
Feb.  20,  (88 1. 

FarrelMJames,  of  Thornhill,  Bray,  son  of  Richard  Farrell, 
Esq.,  Q.C.,  of  Newlawn  (Sep.  20.  1834 -Mid.  1837)  ;  m.  Elizabeth, 
d.  of  John  Farrell,  Esq.,  of  Moynalty;  died  Aug.  19.  1859. 

Farrell,  Richard,  br.  of  James  Farrell,  Esq.,  of  Thornhill 
(Sep.  27,  1836  -  Mid  1839) :  died  Dec.  25,  1846. 

Farrell,  Richard  John,  B.A.,  son  of  James  Farrell,  Esq.,  of 
Thornhill  (Jan.  20,  1868  -  Mid.  18/2)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1870; 
B.A.  1874. 

Farrell,  John  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  20,  1868 -Mid. 
1872)  ;  Capt.  I07th  Foot. 

Farrelly,  Patrick  (1862). 

Faveron,  Manuel  (May  22,  1847 -Xmas.  1851). 

Faxardo,  Austin  (Sep.  4,  1840-  Mid.  1845). 

Fegen,  Frederick  F.  (Jan.  14,  1867 -Nov.  1868);  Com- 
mander R.N. ;  the  hero  of  the  gallant  fight  with  a  slave  dhow  off 
the  coast  of  Africa  in  May  1887. 

Fegen,  McGrath  Fogarty  (Sep  1870-  Mid.  1874),  Capt.  Royal 

Engineers. 

[The  two  last  mentioned  are  sons  of  Frederick  James  Fegen,  Esq.,  of 
Ballinlonty.]] 


APPENDIX.  6 1 

Fellowes,  Hubert  (May  5,  1870 -Mid.  1873),  son  of  Thomas 

Abdy  Fellowes,  Esq.,  of  Donnington  Priory,  Newbury. 

Fernandez,  Charles  (Sep.  29,  1845 -Mid.  1850). 
Fernandez,  Melitao  (Aug.  29,  1846 -Mid.  1850). 
Fernandez,  William  Gomez  (June  23,  1863 -Jan.  1865). 
Fernandez,  Francis  Diaz  (Oct.  17,  1882 -Dec.  1884). 
Ferrao,  Jose  (Jan.  13,  1863 -Xmas.  1867). 
Ferreira,  John  (June  19, 1854 -May  1856). 
Ferreira,  Louis,  br.  of  above  (June  19,  185 4 -Sep.  1856). 

Ferrers,  Edward,  of  Baddesley  Clinton,  J.P.,  D.L.,  b.  1790 
(Feb.  3,  1806  -  March  1807)  ;  m.  Lady  Harriet  Townshend,  d.  and 
co-heiress  of  George,  2nd  Marquis  of  Townshend,  and  i6th  Baron 
Ferrers  of  Chartley  ;  died  Aug.  10,  1830. 

Ferrers,  Marmion  Edward,  J.P.,  D.L.,  b.  1813  (Aug.  20,  1828- 
Mid.  1835),  eldest  son  of  Edward  Ferrers,  Esq  ,  of  Baddesley  Clinton  ; 
m.  Rebecca,  d.  of  the  late  Abraham  Edward  Orpen,  Esq.,  and  niece 
of  Sir  James  Chatterton,  Bart. ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1833  ;  died 
Aug.  25,  1884. 

Ferrers,  Charles,  second  son  of  Edward  Ferrers,  Esq.,  b.  1814 
(Aug.  20,  1828 -Oct.  1831);  died  Feb.  1873. 

Ferrers,  Groby  Thomas,  third  son  of  Edward  Ferrers,  Esq. ; 

b.  1816  (Aug.  19,  1829)  ;  died  at  Oscott,  Sep.  23,  1831. 
Ferrers,    Compton   Gerard,    fourth   son  of  Edward  Ferrers, 

Esq. ;  b.  1818  (Aug.  19,  1829  •  Oct.  1831). 
Ferrers,  Tamworth  George,  fifth  son  of  Edward  Ferrers,  Esq. ; 

b.  1827  (Jan.  20,  1840-  Mid.  1844). 
Fesser,  Leonard   (Jan.  1862 -Mid.    1868);    Good   Conduct 

Medal  1868. 
Fesser,  Albert,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1864 -Mid.  1869). 

Fesser,  Andrew,  br.  of  above    (April    12,  1866 -Mid.  1871)  ; 

died  Aprtf  7,  1875. 

Fesser,  Joachim,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1867  -Mid.  1871). 
Fielding,  John  (Feb.  7,  i8i6-June  1817). 
Fielding,  Thomas  (Aug.  16,  1833 -Mid.  1836). 
Figueroa,  Rodrigo  (Oct.  8,  1884 -Xmas.  1884). 

Findlay,  Robert,  C.E.    (Jan.    28,   1862 -Xmas.  1864);  died 

Feb.  8,  1879. 

Findlay,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  28,  1862 -Mid.  1867). 
Findlay,  George,  br.  of  above  (April  2,  1863 -Mid.  1872). 


62  APPENDIX. 

Findlay,  John,  br.  of  above  (March  29,  1866  -  Xmas.  1874). 

Finn,  Edward  (Aug.  1839 -Aug.  1840). 

Fippard,  William  Herbert  (Sep.  20,  1887-     )  (in  Divinity). 

FitzGerald,  Thomas  (May  u,  1841 -Mid.  1848);  Public 
Man,  Aug.  1847  -  Mid.  1848. 

FitzGerald,   Francis  (Aug.   1844 -Xmas.  1846)  (Sep.  1848- 

Mid.  1849). 

FitzGerald,  James  (Aug.  27,  1838 -Mid.  1840). 

FitzGerald,    David,    B.A.    (April    27,    1858  -  March   1865); 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1865,  I2th  in  Honours  ;  B.A.,  Camb 
FitzGerald,  John  Donohoe  (April  27,  1858 -March  1865); 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,   1865,  6th  in  Honours. 

FitzGerald,  Gerald  (Aug.  23,  1859 -March  1865). 

[The  last  three  were  sons  of  the  Right  Hon.  Lord  FitzGerald,  one 
of  Her  Majesty's  Lords  of  Appeal.] 

FitzGerald,  David  Martin  (April  10,  1860 -March  1865); 
died  Dec.  26,  1881. 

FitzGerald,  James  (Jan.  20,  1863 -March  1865^),  nephews  of 

the  Right  Hon.  Lord  FitzGerald. 
FitzGerald,    Arthur   Ignatius,    (Sep.    5,    1866 -Mid.    1869); 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1868. 
FitzGerald,    Francis,    B.A.    (May    7,    1879  -  Xmas.     1880); 

Barrister-at-Law  ;  Public  Man,  April  -  Dec.  1880. 

FitzGerald,  John  Plunkett,  br.  of  above  (June  28,  1881  - 
Mid.  1884)  ;  Public  Man,  Mid.  1883 -Feb.  1884. 

FitzGerald,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (June  28,  i88i-Mid.  1885); 
Public  Man,  Sep.  to  Xmas.  1884. 

FitzGerald,  Matthew,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  29,  1885-     ). 
FitzGerald,  Percy,  br.  of  above  (Sept.  29,  1885  -      ). 
FitzGerald,  Reginald,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  22,  1887  -      ). 

FitzGerald,  Edward  Arthur,  cousin  to  above  (March  27, 
1885 -Oct.  1887)  ;  Public  Man,  Mid -Xmas.  1887. 

Fitzgibbon,  Louis  (Sep.  19,  1873 -Xmas,  1875);  son  of  the 

Hon.  Gerald  Normanby  (Dillon)  Fitzgibbon  and  Lady  Louisa,  d. 
of  3rd.  Earl  of  Clare. 

Fitzgibbon,  John  (Sep.  17,  1883 -Mid.  1885). 

Fitzherbert,  Charles  (April  21,  1820 -Mid.  1822);  only  son 
of  Thomas  Fitzherbert,  Esq.,  of  Swynnerton  ;  b.  June  21,  1810  ; 
m.  Mary.  d.  of  Patrick  Gibbons,  Esq.  ;  died  Nov.  19  1834. 


APPENDIX.  63 

Fitzherbert,   Basil  Thomas,  of  Swynnerton,  J.P.,  D.  L. ;  b. 

1836  (Aug.  13,  1845 -Xmas.  I^52)  ;  eldest  son  of  Francis  Fitz- 
herbert, Esq.  ;  m.,  1st,  Emily  Charlotte  Jerningham  ;  2ndly,  Emma, 
widow  of  Lord  Stafford. 

Fitzherbert,  William,  vide  Brockholes. 

Fitzherbert,   Basil  John,  son  of  Basil   Fitzherbert,  Esq.,  of 
Swynnerton  ;  b.  1861  (Sep.  1872  -  Xmas.  1878). 

Fitzherbert,    Edward,    br.    of  above   (Jan.    20,    1875 -Feb. 

1877);  Lieut.  R.N. 
Fitzherbert,  Thomas  C.,  br.  of  above   (Sep.  8,  1879 -Xmas. 

1886);  Public  Man,  Xmas.  -  Mid.  1886. 
Fitzsimon,  Francis  (Aug.  26,  1822 -Oct.  1823). 
Flanagan,  John  (Aug.  1824)  ;  remained  but  a  few  days. 
Flanagan,  John  Woulfe,  !B  A.   (Oct.  26,^1865 -Mid.  1868) ; 

Barrister-at-law  of  the  Inner  Temple  ;  m.,  April  29,  1880.  Emily,  d. 
of  Gen.  Sir  Justin  Sheil. 

Flanagan,  Stephen  Woulfe  (Oct.  26,  1865 -Xmas.  1871). 
Flanagan,   Terence  Woulfe,  B.A.    (March   20,  1870 -Xmas. 

1873). 
Flanagan,  James  Woulfe,  B.A.,  Trin.  Coll.,  Oxford  (Sep.  t6, 

1874 -Xmas.  1882);  Public  Man,  April   1881  -July  1882  ;  Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.  1882. 

Flanagan,  Richard  Woulfe  (Oct.  4,  1879  -  Mid.  1880). 

[The  last  five  mentioned  are  sons  of  the  Right  Hon.  Justice  Flanagan.] 
Fletcher,  Robert  Henry  (Jan.  14,  1856 -Mid.  1857). 
Fletcher,  William  (Jan.  13,  1858 -Mid.  1860). 

Fletcher,  Joseph  (Jan.  13,  1858 -Mid.  1863);    died  Nov.  21, 
1871. 

Fletcher,  John  (Jan.  15,  1866 -Mid.  1867) 

Fletcher,  Stanislaus  (Jan.  15,  1866 -Mid.  1867);     died  Aug. 
24,  1880. 

Fletcher,  Francis  (Jan.  15,  1866 -Mid.  1870). 
Fletcher,  George  (Sep.  1868 -Jan.  1872). 

[The  last  seven  were  sons  of  the  late  Robert  Fletcher,  Esq..  of  Edgbaston.] 
Flood,  Christopher  (May  12,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 
Flood,  John,  br.  of  above  (May  12,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 
Fontaine,  Lucien  (Sep.  27,  1873 -Mid.  1875). 
Forster,  James  (Jan.  22,  1852 -Mid.  1853). 
Fotheringham,  James  (Aug.  13,  1833 -Feb.  1836). 


64  APPKXDIX. 

Fox,  C.  J.  (Aug.  1 6,  1815 -Feb.  1816). 

Fox,  Arthur  (June  25,  1864- Nov.  1864). 

Fox,  Thomas  (Nov.  6,  1871 -Mid.  1873);  died  Jan.  1875. 

Foxall,  John  (Aug.  22,  i8i6-June  1820). 

Francia,  Peter  (Aug.  25,  1857 -Nov.  1857). 

Franco,  John  (July  30,  1856 -Xmas.   1857). 

Freel,  Cornelius  (Aug.  1848 -Xmas.  1850). 

Frith,  Robert  (Aug.  14,  i8i6-Feb.  1820). 

Froggatt,  John  (July  23.  i8io-Oct.  1812). 

Froggatt,  Edward  (Jan.  13,  1827 -Mid.  1828). 

Froggatt,  John  (Aug.  14,  1851 -March  1855). 

Froggatt,  Charles  (Aug.  14,  1851 -March  1855). 

Froggatt,  Henry  (Jan.  13,  1859 -Mid.  1860). 

Fuller,  Louis  (Sep.  15,  1874 -Mid.  1877). 

Fullerton,  William  Granville  (Aug.    12,    1846  -  Mid.    1848), 

son  of  Alexander  George  Fullerton,  Esq., -and  Lady  Georgiana 
Leveson-Gower,  d.  of  the  late  Earl  Granville  ;  died  May  29,  1859. 

Furse,  John  (Jan.  25,  1855  -  Mid.  l857)- 

Gainsford,  Robert  John  (Aug.  u,  1821 -Xmas.  1825);  died 
Feb.  6,  1870. 

Gainsford,  William  (April  12,  185 5 -Mid.  1859). 

Gainsford,   Thomas   Robert   (April    12,    1855 -Mid.    1862); 

Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1861  ;  Intermed.  Arts,  1864. 
Gallini,  Alfred  (Dec.  21,  1823 -Mid.  1824). 
Gandolphi,  Vincent,  vide  Hornyold. 

Garcia,  Pedro  (Jan.  28,  1866 -Mid.  1870),  nephew  of  Garcia 
Moreno,  President  of  Ecuador. 

Gardiner,  Edward  Hugh  (Jan.  18,  1820 -Mid.  1822). 
Gardner,  John  (Jan.  23,  1872  -  Feb.  1874). 
Gardom,  Edward  (Aug.  15,  1851  -  Mid.  1853). 
Gargollo,  Manuel  (Aug.  8,  1836 -Mid.  1840). 
Gargollo,  Ferdinand  (June  i,  1843- Jan.  1845). 
Gargollo,  Francis  (May  6,  1865  -Mid.  1866). 
Gasquet,  Joseph,  M.D.  (March  22,  1851  -Sep.  1851). 
Gasquet,  Louis  (Sep.  19,  1863 -Mid.  1864). 
Gattinara,  Mercurino  (Nov.  15,  1871  -Mid.  1875). 
Geary,  Joseph  C.  (May  12,  1851  -  Aug.  1851). 


APPENDIX.  65 

Geran,  Anthony  (Sep.  28,  1858  -Feb.  1860). 

Geran,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  28,  1858-001.  1858). 

Cell,  Edward  (July  7,  1882  -  Mid.  1885). 

Geoffrey,  John  (Aug.  21,  1834 -Mid.  1837). 

Geoghegan,  Thomas  (Sep.  19,  1870 -April,  1875);    Captain 

Bombay  Staff  Corps  ;  Public  Man.  Sep.  1874  -  April,  1875. 

Gerard,  William  (Aug.  15,  1822 -Dec.  1825),  br.  of  Sir  John 
Gerard,  2nd  Baronet,  b.  1806  ;  m.  Mary,  only  d.  of  Bartholomew 
Bretherton.  Esq..  of  Rainhill  ;  died  Nov.  7,  1844. 

Gerard,  Frederick  Sewallis,  of  Aspull  House,  br.  of  above 
(Aug.  13,  1823 -June,  1827),  b.  1811  ;  Major  late  Lane.  Hussars; 
m.  Mary  Ann  Wilkinson  ;  died  May  7,  1884. 

Gerard,  Thomas  Alexander,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  29,  1830  - 
Mid.  1833),  b.  1812  ;  2gth  Regiment  ;  died  April  3,  1850. 

Gerard,  Charles,  br.  of  above,  b.  1814  (Aug.  8,  1831  -  Mid. 
1835)  ;  died  Feb.  8,  1860. 

Gerard,  Frederick,  J.P.,  sou  of  Frederick  Sewallis  Gerard, 
Esq. ;  b.  1839  (April  24,  1854 -April  1857):  Capt.  23rd  Royal 
Welsh  Fusiliers ;  m.  Catherine,  d.  of  C.  Porter,  Esq.,  of  the  Mythe, 
Gloucestershire. 

Gerard,   Charles,   second  son  of  Frederick  Sewallis  Gerard, 

Esq.  ;  b.  1843  (Aug.  13,  1856  -  Xmas.  1859). 
Gerard,  Edward,  J.P.,  third  son  of  Frederick  Sewallis  Gerard, 

Esq. ;  b.  1846  (Jan.  19,  1857  -Mid.  1864)  ;  Public  Man,  Sep.  1863  - 

Aug.  1864. 

Gerard,  Alexander,  son  of  Archibald  Gerard,  Esq.,  of 
Rochsoles  ;  b.  1845  (Sep.  18.  1859  -  Mid  1862)  ;  Barrister-at-law. 

Ghislieri,  Alfonso  (July  6,  1871  -  April  1874). 

Gibbons,  Patrick  (Jan.  15,  1808 -Mid.  1808). 

Gibbons,  Valentine,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  15,  1808 -Mid.  1808). 

Gibbons,  Joseph  (Aug.  n,  1847);   died  at   Oscott   May  25, 

1850  (in  Divinity). 

Gibbons,  John  (Sep.  12,  1881  -  Mid.  1885). 
Gibson,  Edward  (Feb.  23,  1858 -Mid.  1858). 

Gibson,  Jasper  (April  5,  1858  -  Mid.  1858). 

[Sons  of  William  Gibson,  Esq.,  of  St.  John's  Woocl.J 

Gibson,  Edward,  nephew  of  the  late  Denis  Chatto,  Esq.,  of 
St.  Marychurch  (April  14,  1871  -  Mid.  1873). 


66  APPENDIX. 

Giles,  Francis  (Sep.  i869-Xmas.  1875). 
Giles,  Alban  (Sep.  1869 -Mid.  1876). 

[These  two,  with  their  half-brother.  Rev.  C.  Giles,  are  sons  of 

Felix  Giles,  Esq.,  of  Barnet.] 

Gillespie,  James  (Aug.  i,  1846- Xmas.  1851),  son  of  R. 
Gillespie,  Esq.,  of  Cambus  Wallace,  Lanark. 

Gillman,  James  (Sep.  24,  1870 -Mid.  1872). 
Gillow,  John  (July  31,  1825  -Mid.  1827). 
Gomez,  Raphael  (March  26,  1858 -March  1859). 
Gonzales,  Jose"  Manuel  (Nov.  26,  1855- Aug.  1856). 
Gonzales,  William  (Oct.  14,  1884- Mid.  1885). 
Goodrich,  Thomas  (about  1828)  ;  died  Oct.  n,  1832. 
Goodrich,  Bernard  (Sep.  13,  1880 -Mid.  1882). 

Goold,  George,  J.P.  (May  3,  1821 -Mid.  1825),  br.  of  Sir 
Henry  Goold,  Bart.  ;  b.  1805  ;  Resident  Magistrate,  Waterford  ;  m. 
Clara  Webber  Smith  ;  died  Nov.  6,  1879. 

Goold,  George,  eldest  son  of  George  Goold,  Esq.,  b.  1841 
(Nov.  7,  1856-  May  1860).  R  I. P. 

Goold,  William  Albert,  br.  of  above,  b.  1845  (Aug.  19,  1858- 
Mid.  1863  ;  died  March  8,  1879. 

Goold,  Vere  Thomas,  br.   of  above,  b.  1853  (Nov.  4,  1869- 

Xmas.  1869). 

Goold,  Francis  (Jan.  14,  1874- Mid.  1874). 
Gordon,  Lewis  (Aug.  4,  1843 -April  l844). 

Gorman,  Michael  (March  28,'  1832  -  Mid.  1833) ;  died  Dec-  3» 
1840. 

Gorman,  Edmund  (May  i,  1835  -May  1836). 

Gould,  Gerard,  C.B.  (Sep.  i,  1842  -  Mid.  1846);  Attache  at 
Hanover,  Constantinople,  Buenos  Ayres,  St.  Petersburg,  &c.,  &c. ; 
Minister  at  Wurtemburg  ;  died  Sep.  5,  1883. 

Gould,  Francis  (Sep.  7,  1862  -  Mid.  1863)  ;  died  Jan.  2,  1875. 

Gradwell,  Robert  Ashhurst  (Sep.  9,  1870-  Mid.  1877),  son  of 
Richard  Gradwell,  Esq.,  of  Dowth  Hall  ;  b.  1858 ;  m.  Lady 
Henrietta  Plunkett,  d.  of  the  Earl  of  Fingall  ;  Public  Man,  Jan.- 
July,  1877. 

Grafton,  Charles,  M.D.  (March  26,  1820 -Mid.  1826);  Good 

Conduct  Medal  1826  ;  died  Dec.  13,  1861. 

Grafton,  Bernard,  Rev.  (Sep.  14.  1885  -      )  (in  Divinity). 
Graham,  Henry  (Sep.  14,  1865  -  March  1866). 


APPENDIX.  67 

Grant,  Henry  (Aug.  12,  1847  -  April,  1851). 
Grau,  Henry  (Nov.  24,  1884- April  1885). 

Green,  Joseph  (Jan.  17,   1814 -Mid.   1819);    died  Aug.  28, 

1826. 

Green,  Hugh  (Jan.  15,  1856 -Xmas.  1857). 
Green,  Reginald  (March  25,  1885 -Jan.  1888). 

Greenep,  Edmund  Carr  (Sep.  12,  1831  -Xmas.  1840);  in  the 
Ordnance  Department  at  Woolwich  Arsenal  for  thirty-two  years  ; 
died  Oct.  31,  1887. 

Greenep,  Alfred  (Sep.  12,  1831  -Xmas.  1841);  died  Oct.  24, 

1855- 
Grehan,  Patrick  (Aug.  15,  1797  -Mid.  1799). 

Grehan,  Peter  (Aug.  27,  1825  -Xmas.  1830).     R.I.P. 
Grehan,  George  (Aug.  27,  1825  -  Feb.  1831).     R.I.P. 

[The  last  two  were  brothers  of  the  Rev.  J.  Grehan,  S.J.] 
Griffin,  Robert,  br.  of  Canon  Griffin  (Jan.  1814  -  Xmas.  1823). 
Grijalva,  Peter  (Aug.  17,  1815  -June  1817). 
Grinsell,  John  (Aug.  9,  1822  -April  1823). 
Guaita,  Giulio  (April  7,  1888-     ). 
Guedes,  Fausto  (Aug.  25,  1853 -Mid.  1855). 

Guedes,   Alfred  (Aug.  22,    1854  -  Mid.    1862) ;  Public   Man, 

Jan. -June,  1862. 

Guillaume,  Edward  (Aug.  28,  i86i-Xmas,  1861)  (in  Divinity). 
Guimaraes,  Henry  (June  10,  1871  -Nov.  1874). 
Guimaraes,  Domingo  (April  6,  1886 -Xmas.  1887). 
Guinan,  Thomas  (Aug.  n,  1819-1830)  (in  Divinity);  Prefect  of 

Discipline.  1828-29.     After  leaving  Oscott  he  became  Editor  of  the 

Wolverhampton  Chronicle;  died  Dec.  8,  1834. 
Gurdon,  John  (Jan.  14,  1873 -Mid.  1876). 
Hackett,  Thomas  (Sep.  1864 -Mid.  1867);  died  Sep.  4,  1886, 

at  Sydney,  N.S.W. 
Hackett,   William    (March    18,    1869  -  Xmas.    1872);    died 

Sep. 14, 1887. 
[Sons  of  Sir  William  Hackett,  Kt,  of  Lotamore,  Cork.] 

Hadfield,  Joseph  (Aug.  u,  1834 -Mid.  1838). 

Hall,  John  (Dec.  22,  1842 -Xmas.  1843). 

Hall,  William  Scott  (April,  1887 -Xmas.  1887)  (in  Divinity). 


68  APPENDIX. 

Halle,   Gustave   Gregory   R.    (Sep.    17,    1866  -  Mid.    1869); 

Matric.  Lond,  Univ.  1868. 
Halle,  Bernard  (Sep.  18,  1866 -Mid.  1871). 

Halle,  Clifford   (Jan.   22,    1870- Mid.   1876);    Matric    Lond. 
Univ.  1876  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal  1876. 

[These  three  are  sons  of  Sir  Charles  Halle,  Kt.] 
Hamilton,  E.  K.  (May  25,  1854 -Oct.  1854)  (in  Divinity). 
Handley,  Charles  (Jan.  13,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 

Hanford,  Charles   (Oct.  14,   1820),  died  at  Oscott  March  22, 

1827. 

Hanford,  James  (Jan.  17,  1822 -Xmas.  1828). 

Hardman,  John  Bernard  (Aug.  10,  1854 -Mid.  1859;  m.,  ist, 
Miss  Tarleton  ;  2ndly,  Agneta,  d.  of  J.  J.  Parfitt,  Esq.,  of  Brueton. 

Hardman,  George,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  n,  185 7 -Mid.  1863); 

m.  Winifrede,  d.  of  Joseph  A.  Hanson,  Esq.,  of  London. 

Hardouin,  Louis  (Dec.  5,  1850 -Xmas.  1851). 
Hargrove,  Charles  (1863)  (in  Divinity). 
Harkin,  James  Quin  (Sep.  6,  1867  -  Mid.  1873). 
Harnett,  Edward  (Aug.  12,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 
Harnett,  William  (Oct.  3,  1843  -  March,  1848). 

Harnett,  Edward  (Sep.  10,  1845 -Mid.  l&47) ;  Public   Man, 

1846  -  47. 

Harnett,  William  (May  4,  1880  -  Mid.  1884). 
Harper,  Stanislaus  (May  1865 -Mid.  1865). 
Harran,  Edward  (Oct.  15,  1887-    ). 

Harris,  Philip  (July  4,  1842  -June  1850) ;  Public  Man,  Jan.  - 

Dec.,  1849. 

Harrison,  —  (Sep.  1794 -Oct.  1796). 
Harrison,  George  (Sep.  28,  1863 -Xmas.  1865). 
Harrison,  Alfred,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  28,  1863 -Mid.  1868). 
Harrison,  Henry  (May  5,  1866  -  Nov.  1866). 
Hart,  Charles  (Oct.  18,  1838 -Feb.  1842). 
Haskew,  Raymond,  Rev.  (Sep.  u,  1876 -Nov.  1876). 
Havers,  Thomas  (Aug.  21,  1797 -March  1804). 
Havers,  Robert  (Sep.  14,  1798 -March  1804). 
Havers,  Kenneth  (Oct.  i,  1870 -March  1877). 

Hawett,  Thomas  (Sep.  9,  1858 -Mid.  1859);  died  Feb.  12, 
1877. 


APPENDIX.  69 

Hawkins,  Henry  (Sep.  4,  1817 -Xmas.  1820). 
Hawkins,  Anthony  Nichol  (Sep.  4,  1817  -Xmas.  1822). 

Hawkins,  Henry  (Aug.  23,  1862) ;  died  at  Oscott  Oct.  3, 
1862. 

Hawksford,  Francis.  B.A.  (Jan.  13,  1852 -Oct.  1855); 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1853  ;  B.A.,  1855. 

Hawksford,  James  (Aug.  1852 -Xmas.  1853). 

Hawksford,   Robert  (Jan.  1853-1858)  (1859);    died  Nov. 

10,  1861. 

[The  three  last  mentioned,  with  Canon  Hawksford,  were  sons  of  John 
Hawksford,  Esq.,  Solicitor,  of  Wolverhampton.] 

Hawksford,  Cyril,  son  of  Francis  Hawksford,  Esq.  (April  29, 
1880 -Mid.  1880). 

Hay,  Richard  (Nov.  7,  1859 -Xmas.  1861). 

Hayes,  William  (Nov.  14,  1849-     )• 

Haynes,  Matthew  (June  1825  -Mid.  1826). 

Haynes,  John  (Sep.  1827 -Xmas.  1827). 

Hechavarria,  John  Bernard  (July  27,  1854 -Xmas.  1856). 

Helguero,  Peter  (March  22,  1850 -Sept.  1851). 

Hely,  William  (Feb.  1815  -Nov.  1818). 

Hely,  Joseph  (Sep.  1864 -Mid.  1866). 

Hely,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Sept.  1864-  Mid.  1867)  (Sep.  1868- 
Mid.  1869). 

Hely,  Patrick,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1864 -Mid.  1867)  (Sep.  1868- 

Mid.  1869. 
Hemans,  Charles  (1843)  (in  Divinity) ;  died  Oct.  26,  1876. 

Heneage,  Charles  (Aug.  20,  1818-  Mid.  1822),  son  of  Thomas 
Fieschi  Heneage  ;  Gentleman  Usher  of  the  Privy  Chamber  ;  late 
1st  Life  Guards  ;  m.  the  Hon.  Louisa  Elizabeth  Graves. 

Heneage,  Dudley  Robert,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  20,  i8i8-Dec. 
1823). 

Herbert,  John  (Jan.  1845 -Mid.  l845)- 

Herbert,  Arthur  (Feb.  25,  1847 -Dec.  l85°) ;  died  Sep.  18, 
1856). 

Herbert,  Cyril  (Sep.  9,  1861  -Mid.  1864)  ;  died  July  2,  1882. 
[The  last  two  were  sons  of  J.  R.  Herbert,  R.A.] 

10 


70  APPENDIX. 

Herbert,  Ivor  John  Caradoc,  J.P.,  D.L.  (April  15,  1863  -  Mid. 

1869).  son  of  John  Arthur  Herbert,  Esq.,  of  Llanarth  ;  Captain  and 
Lieut.-Col.  Grenadier  Guards;  b.  1851,  m.  Hon.  Albertino  Denison, 
d.  of  Lord  Londesborough ;  Military  Attache  at  St.  Petersburg ; 
served  in  the  Egyptian  War  of  1882  as  Brigade  Major  of  the  ist 
Brigade,  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Tel-el-Kebir  ;  mentioned  in 
despatches,  Brevet  of  Major,  medal  with  clasp,  4th  class  of  the 
Medjidie  and  Khedive  Star ;  served  also  in  the  Nile  Expedition  in 
1885-86  with  the  Guards  Camel  Regiment,  and  was  present  at  the 
actions  at  Abu  Klea  and  Abu  Kru  (two  clasps). 

Heredia,  Manuel  (June  7,  1827  -Xmas.  1831). 

Heredia,  Thomas  (Aug.  19,  1829 -Nov.  1831). 

Heredia,  John  (Nov.  28,  1875 -Mid.  1879). 

Heron,  William  (Aug.  6,  1841  -Mid.  1842). 

Hibbert,    Edgar  (Sep.  2,  1856 -Xmas.  1860),   eldest   son   of 

Captain  Washington  Hibbert,  of  Bilton  Grange,  b.  1846. 

Hickie,  James  F.  (Feb.  17,  1848 -Xmas.  1849);  Lieut.-Col. 
7th  Fusiliers  ;  m.  Lucila,  d.  of  P.  Larios,  Esq.,  of  Gibraltar;  served 
with  7th  Fnsiliers  in  the  Crimea  from  the  I7th  June,  1855,  including 
the  siege  and  fall  of  Sebastopol,  and  assaults  of  the  Redan  on  the 
i8th  June  and  8th  September  ;  severely  wounded  ;  Medal  with  Clasp 
and  Turkish  Medal. 

Hickie,  William  Bernard  (April  24,  1876  -  Mid.  1883) ;  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.  1883  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1884 ;  Lieut.  7th 
Fusiliers. 

Hickie,  Arthur  Francis  (Sep.  12,  1876 -Mid.  1883);  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.,  1883 ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1884  ;  Lieut.  Royal 
Artillery. 

Hickie,  Carlos  (Jan.  30,  1884 -Mid.  1886). 

Hickie,  Manoel  (April  9,  1884 -Mid.  1886). 

[The  four  last  mentioned  are  sons  of  Lieut.-Col.  Hickie.] 

Hicks,  Edward  Percy  (Oct.  3,  1857 -March  1860),  son  of 
Major-General  Hicks ;  Captain  42nd  Highlanders ;  died  Aug.  26, 
1884;  landed  on  the  Gold  Coast  with  his  regiment  in  January.  1874, 
and  was  left  with  a  detachment  at  Yancoomassie  Fanti ;  Ashanti 
Medal. 

Hill,  Charles  (Jan.  14, 1864-  Mid.  1872);  Matric.  Lond.  Univ., 
1872. 

Hill,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  14,  1864 -Jan.  1872^. 

Hill,  Vincent,  br.  of  above  (April   20,  1868);   died  at  Oscott, 

July  21,  1868. 

Hodgens,  Henry,  of  Beaufort,  Rathfarnham  (Aug.  15,  1834- 
Mid.  1842. 


APPENDIX.  71 

Hodgens,  John  Conlan  (Aug.  15,  1834 -Mid.  1842). 

Hodgens,  Robert,  son  of  John  Conlan  Hodgens,  Esq., 
(Sep.  28,  1870 -May  1871). 

Hodgens,  Robert  Devereux,  son  of  Henry  Hodgens,  Esq. 
(Sep.  14,  1872-  Mid.  1879)  :  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1878. 

Hodgkinson,  Henry  (Oct.  20,  1885  -     ). 

Holdforth,  Albert  (April  4,  1839 -Mid.  1840). 

Holiday,  John  (July,  1794 -Sep.  1795). 

Holland,  William  (Feb.  7,  1837 -Xmas.  1838). 

Hopkins,  William  (Jan.  15,  1879 -Mid.  1886). 

Hopkins,  Cuthbert,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  15,  1879 -Mid.  1882). 

Hopkins,' Stephen  (Sep.  19,  1887-    ). 

Horan,  John  (Feb.  26,  1857 -Mid.  1858). 

Hornyold,  Thomas,  J.P.,  D.L.,  of  Blackmore  Park,  b.  1791 
(May  21,   1799  -  Mid.   1808)  ;   m.,  ist.,  Bridget  Webb  Weston,  of 
Sutton  Place ;   2ndly,  Lucy  Saunders,  grand-niece  of  ist  Earl  of 
Mountmorris  ;  died  Jan.  17,  1859. 

Hornyold,  John  Vincent  (Gandolphi),  J.P.,  D.L.,  of  Black- 
more  Park,  son  of  John  Vincent  Gandolphi  and  nephew  of  Thomas 
Hornyold,  Esq.,  b.  1818  (Aug.  13,  1830 -Mid.  1836);  m.  Charlotte, 
d.  of  the  Hon.  Charles  Langdale. 

Howard,  Philip  Henry,  of  Corby  Castle,  J.P.,  D.L.,  F.S.A., 
son  of  Henry  Howard,  Esq.,  of  Corby  Castle  ;  b.  1801  (Sep.  4, 
1813-  Aug.  1815);  M.P.  for  Carlisle  1830  •  1852,  High  Sheriff  of 
Cumberland  ;  m.  Eliza  Minto  Canning,  d.  of  the  late  Major 
Canning,  of  Foxcote  ;  died  Jan.  I,  1883. 

Howard,  Edward  Giles,  son  of  Edward  Charles  Howard,  Esq., 
and  nephew  of  Bernard  Edward,  twelfth  Duke  of  Norfolk  ;  b.  1805 
(Aug.  17,  i8i8-Dec.  1822),  Captain  in  the  army;  m.  Francis 
Heneage  ;  was  father  of  Cardinal  Howard  ;  died  June  17,  1840. 

Howe,  Edward   (Aug.  6,    1840 -Dec.    1848);    died   Oct.    26, 

1880. 
Howley,  William,  son  of  the  late  John  Howley,  Esq.,  of  Rich 

Hill,  and  younger  brother  of  Sir  John  Howley   (Aug.  30,   1803  - 

June  1807)  ;  died  Nov.  7,  1867. 

Howley,  John,  B.A.,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  Sir  John  Howley, 
Lieut. -Colonel  5th  Battalion  Munster  Fusiliers  (Oct.  26,  1840  - 
Mid.  1845)  ;  died  Jan.  I,  1888. 

Howley,  William  J.,  eldest  son  of  John  Howley,  Esq.  (Sep. 
ii,  1878 -Mid.  1884)  (June  i885>  Mid.  1885);  Matric.  London 
University  1884. 


72  APPENDIX. 

Howley,  John  Gerard,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  i,  1880  -  Mid.  1886). 

Howley,  Jasper,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  i88i-Xmas.  1885), 

Lieutenant  Lincolnshire  Regiment. 
Howley,  Richard,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  15,  1885-    ). 
Howley,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1886-    ). 
Hoy,  William  (Aug.  9,  1825  -Mid.  1826). 
Huelin,  William  (Jan.  21,  1825  -Mid.  1829). 
Huelin,  Matthew  (May  19,  1830 -March,  1832). 
Hully,  James  (Aug.  9,  1822 -Xmas.  1825). 
Hunloke,  James,  son  of  Sir  Henry  Hunloke,  Bart.  (March  16, 

1802 -May,  1803). 
Hurley,  Francis  (Sep.  1863  -  Mid.  1865) ;  killed  in  Dublin,  from 

falling  off  a  car,  Dec.  10,  1873. 
Hurst,  John  (July  16,  1858  -  Mid.  1861). 
Husband,    Edward,    M.A.    (Jan.   8,    1870  -  Jan.    25,    1870). 

(in  Divinity). 

Huthwaite,  Charles  (Aug.  25,  1862  -  Mid.  1867). 

Hutton,  James  (Jan.  30,  1809- Aug.  1810). 

Hyde,  Frederick  (Sep.  n,  1805 -Xmas.  1805). 

Hyde,  Josue,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1805  -Xmas.  1805). 

Hyde,  John  (Aug.  28,  1839 -Jan.  1840). 

Hynes,  Alfred  Mortimer  (Aug.  22,  1859 -Feb.  1860). 

Irribarren,  Florentine  (Jan.  8,  1883 -Xmas.  1883). 

Irwin,  Richard  (Sep.  i,  1848 -Xmas.  1851). 

Iturbe,  Victoriano  (Dec.  15,  1842 -April,  1844). 

Jackson,  Thomas  (April  15,  1857 -Xmas.  1858). 

Jackson,  John  (April  15,  1857  -Mid.  1860). 

Jackson,  Henry  (Sep.  1866 -Sep.  20,  1866)  (in  Divinity). 

Jackson,  George  (Sep.  21,  1876- Mid.  1877). 

Jackson,  Wilfrid  Austin  (Sep.  25,  1882 -Mid.  1884). 

Jackson,  Gerald  (Jan.  21,  1886-     )  (in  Divinity). 

Jaillet,  Michael  (Feb.  7,  1807 -June  1809). 

James,  George  (Sep.  12,  i88i-Mid.  1884). 

Jefferies,    Charles    (1829-1838)    (in    Divinity);    returned   as 
Professor,  Aug.,  1856,  and  remained  till  his  death,  Feb.  7,  1870. 

Jefferson,  John  (Aug.  14,  1826 -Mid.  1827). 
Jeffery,  Joseph  (Mid.  1828-    ). 


APPENDIX.  73 

Jerningham,  John  (July  21,  1826 -Mid.  1829);  died  in  1838. 
Jerningham,  James  (Sep.  4,  1829  -Xmas.  1833),  an  Officer  in 

the  Army  ;  m.  Sophia,  d.  of  Sir  William  Murray,  Bart.,  of  Clermont  ; 
died  Aug.  22,  1848. 

[The  two  last  mentioned  were  the  sons  of  Edward  Jerningham,  Esq., 
of  Painswick,  who  married  Emily  Middleton,  and  who  was  brother 
to  Sir  George  Jerningham,  after.wards  Baron  Stafford.] 

Jerningham,  Adolphus  (Aug.  15,  1856 -Mid.  1858),  son  of 

Frederick  Jerningham,  Esq.,  nephew  of  Sir   George  Jerningham, 
afterwards  Baron  Stafford  ;  m.  Matilda,  d.  of  William  Felix  Riley,Esq. 

Jennings,  John  (Sep.  1 8,  1882-     )  (in  Divinity). 
Jerrard,  George  (Jan.  1862  -Mid.  1863). 
Johnson,    A.    Hanchette   (Jan.     15,    1879    -    Xmas     1880) 
(in  Divinity). 

Johnston,  James  (Sep.  15,  1874- Xmas.  1877). 

Jolliffe,  Francis  (Sep.  29,  1856  -  Mid.  1857). 

Jones,  J.  Fitzwilliam  (April  24,  1809 -Sep.  1809). 

Jones,  Herbert,  fourth  son  of  John  Jones,  Esq.,  of  Llanarth 

(Aug.  27,  1839 -Mid.  1842). 

Jones,  Henry  F.  (Sep.  6,  1871  -  Mid.  1872)  (in  Divinity). 
Jorge,  David  (Sep.  9,  1853 -Mid.  1854). 
Jorge,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1854- April  1855). 
Jorge,  Acurcio,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1854 -Jan.  1857). 
Jorge,  Honorato,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  IT,  1854 -Jan.  1857). 
Jorrin,  Albert  (May  5,  1869  -  May  17,  1869). 
Jorrin,  — ,  br.  of  above  (May  5,  1869 -May  17,  1869). 
Joyau,  Louis  (Aug.  28,  1841  -Mid.  1844). 
Joyau,  Jules,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  28,  1841  -Mid.  1846). 
Joyau,  Austerlitz  (Sep.  3,  1842  -  Oct.  1847). 

Joyce,   Walter,  of  Corgary  (May   13,   1813 -Mid.   1819);    m. 

Christina,  d.  of  John  Kelly,  Esq. ;  died  Feb.  18,  1871. 
Joyce,  Thomas,  J.P.,  of  Rahasane  (Sep.  26,  1829 -Mid.  1831), 

son  of  Walter  Joyce,   Esq.,  of   Corgaiy ;    High  Sheriff  1852  ;    m. 

Julia  Francis  Bisshopp. 

Joyce,  William,  son  of  Thomas  Joyce,  Esq.,  of  Rahasane  (Aug. 
21,  1856  -  Mid.  1863)  ;  4th  Dragoon  Guards. 

Joyce,  Thomas,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  10,  1858  -  Mid.  1863). 
Joyce,  Frederick,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  22,  1863 -Mid.  1863). 

Joyce,  Pierce,  son  of  Pierce  Joyce,  Esq,  of  Merone  (Aug.  12, 
1856  -  Mid.  1860)  ;  m.  Selina,  d.  of  Charles  George  Mahon,  Esq. 


74  APPENDIX. 

Joyce,  Walter,  br  of  above  (Aug.  20,  1859 -Mid.  1860). 
Joyes,  John  (Aug.  29,  183 7 -Mid.  1840). 
Kane,  George  (Oct.  15,  1878  -  Xmas.  1878). 
Kealey,  James  (Feb.  21,  1838 -Xmas.  1839). 
Kearney,  Patrick  (Sep.  14,  1809- June,  1814). 
Kearney,  John  (Jan.  28,  1854 -Mid.  1858). 

Kearney,  James,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  28,  1854),  died  at  Oscott 
April  22,  1856. 

Kearney,  Matthew  (Jan.  17,  1870  -  Mid.  1871) ;  died  May  30, 
1874. 

Keating,  George  (Aug.  17,  1815  -June,  1820). 

Keating,  Samuel  (Feb.  9,  1865  -  Mid.  1867). 

Keating,  Rev.  Vincent  (Sep.  14,  1885  -      )  (in  Divinity). 

Keenan,  Charles  (Oct.  14,  1832 -Mid.  1835). 

Keenan,  John  (Nov.  7,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 

Kelly,  John  (Jan.  20,  1812  -Mid.  1814). 

Kelly,  Edward  (Jan.  20,  1812  -Mid.  1814). 

Kelly,  William  (Aug.  31,  1812  -Mid.  1816). 

Kelly,  John  (May  23,  1823 -Mid.  1829) 

Kelly,  Louis  (Sep.  5,  1855 -Mid.  1856). 

Kelly,  Peter  (Jan.  1862  -  Mid.  1864). 

Kelly,  John  (Jan,  23,  1868 -Xmas.  1869). 

Kelly,  Edward  Farrell  (Sep.   18,    1882  -  Mid.   1883)  ;    Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.  1883  ;  Degree  in  Lower  Tripos,  Cambridge,  1887. 
Kenna,  Patrick  (Jan.  1841  -April  1842). 
Kennedy,  John  (Sep.  7,  1806 -Mid.  1808). 
Kenney,  Ignatius  Plunkett  (Sep.  27,  1877 -Mid.  1879). 

Kent,  William   Charles    Mark   (Feb.    13,   1838 -Xmas.  1838), 
son  of  W.  Kent,  R.N. 

Keogh,  Michael  (Aug.  19,  1835 -Mid.  1836). 

Keogh,  William,  son  of  Right  Hon.  Justice  Keogh  (Aug.  20, 
1858 -April  1860). 

Keogh,  Joseph  (Jan.  21,  1873- April  l877)- 
Keogh,  George,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  21,  1873 -Mid.  1877). 
Keogh,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1876 -Mid.  1878). 
Kilkelly,  James  (Nov.  19,  1840 -Nov.  1841). 
Kimbell,  Henry,  M.D.  (Aug.  18,  1830 -Xmas.  1835). 


APPENDIX.  75 

Kirby,  Lawrence  Daniel,  B.A.  (June  15,  1857 -Mid.  1859); 
Barrister-at-Law  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1860,  ist  in  Chem.  ;  B.A. 
1866  ;  died  Nov.  2,  1880. 

Kirk,  John  (Aug.  12,  1811)  ;  died  at  Oscott,  Dec.  29,  1816. 

Kirk,  Thomas  (June  i,  1815  -  Mid.  1818). 

Kirk,  John  (Aug.  7,  1844 -Mid.  1847)  (Aug.  1856 -March 
1857). 

Kirwan,  Robert  (Jan.  15,  1838 -Xmas.  1840). 

Knapp,  Henry  (Aug.  24,  1813 -Mid.  1816). 

Knight,  Arnold  More  (Jan.  15,  1833 -Mid.  1839);  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.  1839 ;  Good  Conduct  Medal  1839  ;  served  in  the 
Sutlej  campaign  of  1845-46  with  the  i6th  Lancers,  and  was 
present  at  the  affair  of  Buddeewall  and  in  the  battles  of  Aliwal  and 
Sobraon  (medal  and  clasps) ;  served  subsequently  in  the  Kafir  war 
of  1847  with  the  7tb  Dragoon  Guards,  when  he  commanded  the 
cavalry  escort  of  his  Excellency  Sir  Harry  Smith,  Commander-in- 
Chief;  again,  during  the  Kafir  war  of  1851-53,  with  the  Cape 
Mounted  Rifles,  including  the  action  of  Berea  ;  was  twice  men- 
tioned in  general  orders  and  despatches  ;  finally  served  again  on 
the  staff  of  Sir  Harry  Smith,  and  subsequently  on  that  of  his 
successor,  Sir  George  Cathcart. 

Knight,  Alexander  (Jan.  15,  1833 -Mid.  1840);  Lieut.-Colonel 

3rd  Battalion  King's  Liverpool  Regiment. 
Knight,  William  Caley  (Jan.  19,  i837-Xmas.  1841) ;  died  Jan. 

13,  1852. 
[  The  three  last  mentioned,  with  their  brothers,  Bishop   Knight,  Rev. 

Thomas  Knight,  S.J.,  and  Rev.  Arthur  Knight,  S.J.,  were  sons  of  Sir 

Arnold  Knight,  Kt] 

Knight,  James  (Aug.  10,  1838 -Mid.  1839). 

Knight,  Francis  (Aug.  10,  183  8 -Mid.  1840). 

Knight,  Thomas  (Aug.  19,  1839 -Mid.  1840). 

Kopke,  Henry  (Aug.  22,  1862  -  March  1863). 

Labayen,  Francis  (Sep.  9,  1878 -Mid.  1880). 

Labayen,  Jules,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  9,  1878 -Mid.  1880). 

La  Cave,  Louis  (June  12,  1865 -Mid.  1866). 

Lalor,   John   (Aug.    21,   1839 -Mid.    1840),  son   of  Thomas 

Edmund  Lalor,  Esq.,  of  Gregg  ;  I2th  Infantry  ;  died  Nov.  II,  1850. 

Lalor,  Nicholas,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  21,  1839 -Mid.  1842); 
died  Oct.  18, 1848. 

Lalor,  Richard  O'Gorman  (March  29,  1871 -Jan.  1877); 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1876. 

Lalor,  James,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  16,  1876 -Mid.  1878). 


76  APPENDIX. 

Lalor,  George  Power,  of  Long  Orchard,  son  of  Edmund  Power 
Lalor,  Esq.,  of  Long  Orchard,  b.  1864  (Jan.  16,  1879  -  May  1882) 
(Jan.  1883  -  Xmas.  1883). 

Lamarao,  Antonio  (July  20,  1857  -  Mid.  1859). 

Lamb,  William  Wentworth  (Sep.  12,  1843 -Mid.  I^45),  son  of 
Joseph  Lamb,  Esq.  ,  of  West  Denton,  b.  1830;  late  Captain  7th 
Dragoon  Guards  ;  died  Nov.  24,  1876. 

Lance,  Adrian  (Oct.  18,  1870 -Mid.  1871). 

Lance,  Philip,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  18,  1870 -Mid.  1871). 

Lane,  George  (Aug.  13,  1811  -March  1815). 

Lanigan,  Stephen  (Sep.  18,  1856- Mid.  1857). 

Lanigan,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  1856 -Mid.  1857). 

Larios,  Carlos  (Aug.  4,  1828- Mid.  1831). 

Larios,  Pablo,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  4,  1828 -Mid.  1831)  ;  died 
April  1 6,  1879. 

Larios,  Richard,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  4,  1828 -Mid.  1831). 
Larkin,  Felix  (1828). 

Larrea,  Manuel  (Oct.  23,  1873 -Mid.  1875). 
Lassaletta,  Francis  (Sep.  1868 -Mid.  1869). 

Latham,  Thomas  (Aug.  15,  1796-  Dec.  1801) ;   died  April  5, 

1802. 

Laubenque,  Henry  (Oct.  i,  1883 -Xmas.  1884). 
Lauda,  Charles  (Feb.  18,  1850 -Mid.  1852). 
Law,  George  (Aug.  15,  1847 -Mid.  1848). 

Law,  Frederick  (Nov.  15,  1851 -Xmas.  1853);  Com.  R.N  ; 
son  of  the  Hon.  William  Towry  Law,  br.  of  the  2nd  Baron  Ellen- 
borough,  b.  1841 ;  married  Charlotte  Margaret  Crawford. 

Law,  Victor  Edward,  br.  of  above,  b.  1842  (Nov.  15,  1851- 
Mid  1858)  ;  Lieut. -Col.  Madras  Light  Cavalry  ;  m.,  ist.  Mary 
Elizabeth  Bowdon  ;  andly,  Helen  Florence,  d.  of  the  Hon.  J.  W. 
Crawford,  Lieut-Governor  of  Ontario ;  3rd  class  Political  Agent ; 
Political  Officer  with  the  ex- Ameer  Yakoob  Khan. 

Law,  Ernest  P.,  B.A.,  br.  of  above,  b.  1854  (Sep.  1864 -Mid. 
1872);  Barrister-at-Law  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1872;  Intermed. 
Arts,  1873  ;  1st  in  2nd  Class  in  French;  B.A.,  1874;  2nd  in  3rd 
Class  in  Logic,  &c. 

Law,  William  Algernon,  br.  of  above,  b.  1856  (Sep.  6,  1876- 
Mid.  1874)  ;  m.  Constance,  d.  of  Chancellor  Bagot,  Dec.  22.  1885. 

Lawler,  James  (Jan.  16,  1841 -Mid.  1841). 


APPENDIX.  77 

Lawlor,  Denys  Shyne,  J.P.,  High  Sheriff,  1840  (Sep.  4,  1825  - 

Mid.  1828),  son  of  the  late  Denis  Shyne,  Esq..  of  Killarney  ;  b.  1808  ; 

m.,  ist,   Isabella   Huddleston  ;  2ndly,  Alice  Mary  Riley ;  died  Oct. 

17,  1887. 
Lawlor,  Denys  Alexander  Shyne,  son  of  above,  b.  1843  (Sep. 

9,  1 854 -Mid.  1860). 

Leadbitter,  Graham  (April  20,  1841 -Mid.  1844). 

Leahy,  Daniel  (Sep.  18,  1813- Mid.  1815). 

Leahy,  Daniel,  D.L.,  K.S.G.  (Aug.  13,  1844 -Xmas.  1848). 

Leahy,   Edmund  (Aug.   13,  1844- Mid.   1845);  died  Jan.  25, 

1867. 

Leahy,  Daniel  (Sep.  1876-1880)  (Sep.  1882 -Xmas.  1883). 
Leake,  John  (Aug.  7,  1840 -Mid.  1846). 
Lecesne,  Jules  (Nov.  13,  1833 -Mid.  1836). 
Lecesne,  Victor  (Sep.  13,  1842  -Mid.  1843). 
Lecesne,  Jules  (Feb.  10,  1871  -Oct.  1871). 
Leconte,  Louis  (Jan.  18,  1851  -Aug.  1881). 
Lee,  Thomas  (Jan.  1845  -  March  1848). 

Leese,  William  Willott   (Sep.   5,    1866 -Mid.   1870);  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.,  1868. 

Leidig,  William  (Sep.  19,  1882  -  Mid.  1883). 

Leidig,  George  (Sept.  12,  1879  -      ) ;  Public  Man  from  Sep.  to 

Dec,,  1885  (in  Divinity). 
Leigh,  William,  of  Woodchester  Park  (April  30,  1844 -April 

1848),  m.  Mary  Victoria  Jarrett. 

Leigh,   Henry  Vincent,  son  of  above  (April  17,    1882  -  Mid. 
1885)  (Jan.  i886-April  1887)  {Sep.  1887  -     ). 

Leigh,  Bertrand  (Sep.  12,  i88i-Mid.  1887). 

Lemoine,  Auguste  (May  3,  1856 -Xmas.  1856). 

Lemoine,  Anastase  (Aug.  16,  1862 -Mid.  1863). 

Lennon,  Patrick  (Sep.  7,  1841  -Mid.  1846). 

Leonard,  Horatio  (Jan.  23,  1839),  remained  but  a  short  time. 

Lepee,  Henry  (Oct.  21,  1870-  Oct.  1871). 

Le  Quellec,  Joseph  (Sep.  10,  1878 -Mid.  1880). 

Le  Quellec,  Maurice,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  21,  i876-Mid.  1880). 

Lescher,  Arthur  (Feb.  12,  1852- Mid.  1852). 

ii 


78  APPENDIX. 

Leslie,  John  Edward  (Sep.  4,  1829 -Mid.  1833),  son  of  Ernest 
Leslie,  an  Officer  in  the  Austrian  Service  :  b.  1820  ;  24th  Baron  of 
Balquhain  ;  died  Aug.  19,  1844). 

Leslie,  Charles  Stephen,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  Col.  Charles  Leslie, 
K.H.,  b.  1832  (April  23,  1844 -Oct.  1847),  27th  Baron  of  Balquhain. 

Lindsay,  Leonard  Colin  (Sep.  1869 -Xmas.  1875)  (Sep.  1877- 
Mid.  1878)  ;  son  of  the  Hon.  Colin  Lindsay,  br.  of  the  8th  Earl  of 
Crawford  and  Balcarres  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1876. 

Linford,  Raymond  (Sep.  14,  1870 -Mid.  1876). 
Lisboa,  Emmanuel  (June  22,  1809- Jan.  1811). 
Livesley,  J.  (Jan.  1849 -Xmas.  1849)  (in  Divinity). 
Lloyd,  John  (Aug.  12,  1835-001.  1837). 
Lloyd,  Howell  W.  (Sep.  1848 -Xmas.  1848). 
Lloyd,  Edward  (Jan  24,  1850  -  Mid.  1850). 
Lloyd,  Thomas  (Aug.  1858 -Mid.  1859). 
Lloyd,  Edward  W.  (Sep.  10,  1863-  Xmas.  1866). 
Lockley,  Thomas  (Aug.  1834 -Mid.  1836). 
Lonergan,    Eustace   Barren    (Aug.    n,   1857  -  Xmas   1861); 
died  June  28,  1877. 

Lonergan,  Frederick,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  23,  1858 -Nov.  1862). 
Lonergan,  Alfred,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  22,  185 9 -Xmas.  1862). 
Lonergan,  Ernest  (Nov.  10,  1870 -Xmas.  1871). 
Lonergan,  Arthur  (Jan.  23,  1874 -April  1874). 
Longueville,,  Reginald  (Sep.  8,   1879  -  Mid.   1883),  son  of 

Thomas  Longueville,  Esq.,  of  Llanforda  Hall. 
Lott,  Harry  (May  21,  1870 -Mid.  1870). 
Loughnan,  James  (Jan.  9,  1837 -Mid.  1841). 
Loures,  Angelo  (June  13,  1854 -Nov.  1854). 
Luzarraga,  Manuel  (Oct.  12,  1884- 1886). 
Luzarraga,  Eustace,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  12,  1884 -Mid.  1885). 
Lynch-Staunton,  George,  of  Clydagh,  J.P.,  D.L.,  b.  1798 

(July  4,  1807 -Mid.  1808)  (Aug.  i8n-Jan.  1813),  son  of  Mark 
Lynch,  Esq.,  of  Duras,  took  the  name  of  Staunton  on  succeeding  to 
his  cousin's  estate  in  1859,  m.  Sarah  Jane  Hardwick  ;  died  April  4, 
1882. 

Lynch-Staunton,  Marcus,  son  of  George  Lynch-Staunton, 
Esq.,  of  Clydagh,  b.  1826  (Dec.  5.  1839 -Xmas.  1844  ;  m.  Horatia 
Rush  worth. 


APPENDIX.  79 

Lynch-Staunton,  Francis,  son  of  George  Lynch-Staunton, 
Esq.  (Aug.  1844- Mid.  1845),  m-  Victorie,  d.  of  G.  Corbet,  Esq.  of 
Kingston,  West  Canada. 

Lynch-Staunton,  Richard,  son  of  George  Lynch-Staunton, 
Esq.,  b.  1846  (Oct.  1859  -  Mid.  1863). 

Lynch-Staunton,  Charles,  son  of  Marcus  Lynch-Staunton, 
Esq..  b.  1855  (April  18,  1867-  Xmas.  1871). 

Lynch,  Mark  (Sep.  15,  1833 -Mid.  1839). 

Lynch,  Mark  Wilson,  B.A.,  of  Christ  Ch.,  Oxford  (April  28, 
1877  -  Mid.  1883),  son  of  John  Wilson  Lynch,  Esq  ,  of  Renmore  ; 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1883,  46th  in  Honours  :  Good  Conduct  Medal. 
1883. 

Lynch,  Thomas  Wilson,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1880  -  April 
1886). 

Lynch,  William  Wilson,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  23,  1883 -April 
1886). 

Lynch,  James   (Sep.   14,  1807 -Mid.   1808)    (May  181 1  -  July 

1814). 

Lynch,  Andrew  (Nov.  3,  i8io-Nov.  1811). 
Lynch,  Nicholas  (Sep.  20,  1813-  Mid.  1818). 
Lynch,  Thomas  (Aug.  u,  1816 -May  1820). 
Lynch,  Patrick  (Feb.  14,  1829 -Xmas.  1830). 
Lynch,  George  (Aug.  9,  1834 -Mid.  1836). 
Lynch,  William  (Aug.  9,  1834 -May  1839). 
Lynch,  Lewis  (Aug.  9,  1834-  Mid.  1837). 
Lynch,  Edward  (Aug.  12,  1835 -Mid.  1838). 
Lynch,  Charles  (Aug.  12,  1835 -Mid.  1840). 

[The  five  last  mentioned  were  brothers  ] 

Lynch,  Henry  (Feb.  22,  1837 -Xmas.  1840);  died  July  10, 
1870. 

Lynch,  James  (Dec.  2,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 
Lynch,  Anthony  (Aug.  29,  1843 -Mid.  1848). 
Lynch,  John  (Aug.  29,  1843  -  Mid.  1848). 

[  The  two  last  mentioned  were  from  Nile  Lodge,  Galway.j 
Lynch,  John  Breen,  son  of  Joseph  Lynch,  Esq.,  of  Roebuck 
House  (Sep.  1854  -  March  1856). 

Lynch,  James  Henry,  son  of  J.  M.  Lynch,  Esq.,  of  Whiteleas 
(Oct.  8.  1855  -  Mid.  1859)  ;  Public  Man,  Aug.  -  Dec.  1858. 

Lynch,  Thomas  B.,  son  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  Judge  Lynch  (Sep.  29. 
1867  -  Mid.  1872). 


So  APPENDIX. 

Lynch,  George  Philip  (Sep.  18,  1874-  Mid.  1879)  (May  1882, 
for  a  few  weeks). 

Lynch,  Henry  Lambert  (Sep.  u,  1878- Feb.  3,  1880). 

Lynch,  Francis  Philip  (Dec.  31,  1878 -March  27,  1881);  died 

Sep.  5,  1887. 
[The  three  last  mentioned  were  sons  of  P.  Lambert  Lynch,  Esq.,  and 

were  nearly  related  to  the  Talbots  of  Castle  Talbot.] 
Lyons,  Edward,  son  of  James  Denis  Lyons,  of  Croome  House ; 

b.  1836  (Oct.  31,  1850  -  Mid.  1855)  ;  Lieut.-Col.  Royal  Artillery  ;  m. 

Alice  Smith. 
Lyons,  George,  son  of  Francis  Lyons,  Esq.,  of  Cork  (Sep.  29, 

1859 -Mid.  1861). 
McCan,  Francis,  of  New  Park,  Cashel  (March  8,  1859 -Mid. 

1866)  ;     Public  Man,  Sep.  1864  -Jan.  1866  ;    Good  Conduct  Medal, 

1866. 
McCan,   Joseph,   br.   of  above    (Sep.    i,   1862 -Mid.   1871); 

Public  Man  May-July,  1870,  and  Jan.  -  May,  1871;    died  Jan.  3, 

1877- 

McCarthy,  Washington  (Nov.  26,  1808 -Sep.  1810). 
McCarthy,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Nov.  26,  1808 -Nov.  1810), 

McCarthy,    Alexander    (Sep.  26,   1810  -  Xmas.   1810)   (Oct. 

1811  -May,  1814). 

McCarthy,  Florence  (April  18,  1813 -May,  1814). 
McCarthy,  David,  br.  of  above  (April  18,  1813 -May,  1814). 
McCarthy,  William  (April  19,  1826 -April,  1827). 
McCarthy,  Geoffry  (Feb.  ^,  1828 -Feb.  1829). 
McCarthy,  James  (Oct.  19,  1834 -Mid.  1838). 

McCarthy,  Florence  (Jan.  31,  i86i-Mid.  1863);    died  July 

14,  1879. 
McCarthy,  Gerald,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  31,  1861  -Xmas.  1864); 

died  March  19,  1875. 

McCarthy,  Alexander  (Oct.  u,  1884 -Mid.  1886). 
McClement,    Rev.    Frederick   (Jan.    29,    1883  -  July,    1883) 

(Sep.  1886  in  Divinity  -         ). 
McClement,  Richard  (Jan.  29,  1883- April  1884)  (Sep.  1887- 

April  1888). 
McCrohon,  John,  son  of  General  McCrohon  (Sep.  18,  i855_- 

Mid.  1859). 

McDonnell,  Randal  (Oct.  24,  1833 -Mid   1837). 
McDonnell,  Randal  Henry  (Oct.  8,  1835 -Mid.  1837;. 


APPENDIX.  8 1 

McDonnell,  Francis  (April  13,  1839 -Mid.  1842);  Lieut-Col. 

Royal  Monmouthshire  Engineer  Militia ;    m.  Miss  Daly,  of  Dun- 

sandle. 

McDonnell,  Richard  (March  24,  1857 -Nov.  1860). 
McElmail,  Frederick  (Sep.  12,  1881  -Dec.  1881). 
McEvoy,  Henry  (Sep.  7,  1837 -Mid.  1842). 
McEvoy,  William  (Jan.  18,  1841  -Sep.  1846). 
McGrath,  Leonard  William  (Nov.  9,  1820  -Xmas.  1825). 
Machell,  Rev.  George  (Sep.  28,   1880 -Mid.  1883);    Public 

Man,  Sep.  1882 -July,  1883. 

Mackall,  Henry  P.  (Nov.  27,  1878  -  Xmas.  1878)  (in  Divinity). 
Mackenzie,  Ronald  (Sep.  17,  1877 -Mid.  1878). 
Mackey,  Edward  (Aug.   1822 -Mid.  1825);    taught  drawing 

from  1830  till  his  death,  July  22,  1871. 
Mackey,  Edward,  M.D.,  M.R.C.S.,  M.R.C.P.E.,  son  of  above 

(Aug.  14,  1855  -  March,  1859)  ;    Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1861  ;    3rd  in 

Classics;    Prel.  Sci.,    1862;    Intermed.  Med.,    1863;    M.B.,  1867; 

M.D.  Logic  only,  1872  ;  M.D.  Medicine.  1874  ;  Medallist  of  Queen's 

College,    Birmingham  ;    m.    Blanche,   d.    of  H.    A.    Fry.    Esq.,    of 

Edgbaston. 

McLarney,  Patrick  (Sep.  3,  1860 -Xmas.  1862)  (in  Divinity). 
McLaughlin,  Henry(Aug.  12,  i85i-Mid.  1855)  (in  Divinity). 

McManus,  Christopher  (Aug.   22,   1823  -  Mid.   1830);    died 

Dec.  19,  1834. 

McManus,  Thomas  (Aug.  22,  1823 -Mid.  1831). 
McManus,  Bernard  (Aug.  22,  1823- April  1830). 
McManus,  Joseph  (Aug.  18",  1830 -Mid.  1833). 
McManus,  Charles  (Sep.  12,  1832 -Mid.  1833). 
MacMullen,  Frederick  (Jan.  20,  1858 -Mid.  1859). 

McNab,  John  Charles  (March  21,  1863 -Mid.  1866),  Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.,  1866. 

McNab,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  6,  1866  -  March  1868). 
McNamara,  John  (Sep.  23,  1808 -Mid.  1809). 
McNamara,  John  (Sep.  10,  iS8i  -  Mid.  1887). 

McNamara,  James,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  10,  1881  -  Mid.  1887), 

Good  Conduct  Medal,  1887. 

McNamara,  William,  br  of  above  (Sep.  14,  i886-Xmas.  1887). 
McNeale,  Mark  (June  u,  1804 -Xmas.  1804), 
McNevin,  Thomas  (Sep.  14,  1827  -  Xmas.  1830). 


82  APPENDIX. 

McNevin,  Richard  (Aug.  25,  1829 -March  1832). 

McNevin,  Daniel  (Aug.  15,  1835 -Mid   1836). 

McNolty,  Peter  (Aug.  22,  1836 -Mid.  1838). 

McTavish,  Alexander  (Oct.  4,  1841  -  Mid.  1845). 

McVey,  Rev.  Thomas  (Sep.  8, 1871  - 1874)  (in  Divinity). 

Magee,  Edward  (Sep.  n,  1876 -Xmas.  1880). 

Magee,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1876 -Mid.  1882). 

Magee,  George,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  17,  1881  -  Mid.  1884). 

Magee,  Frederick,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  17,  1881  -Mid.  1884). 

Magrath,  Ivan  (Sep.  19,  1887-         ). 

Magrath,  Gerald,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  19,  1887  -         ). 

Maguire,  Thomas  (Aug.  16,  1841  -  Mid.  1848). 

Maguire,  Angus  (Sep.  15,  1884-     ). 

Mahon,  William  (Sep.  10,  1842 -Xmas.  1844). 

Mahon,  Charles  br.  of  above  (Sep.  10,  1842  -  March  1846). 

Mahony,  John  (Sep.  20,  1846 -Mid.  1858). 

Mainfroy,  Leon  (April  14,  1857 -Nov.  1857). 

Mallac,  Augustus  (Oct.  6,  1842-  Mid.  1843). 

Mallac,  Albert,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  6,  1842  -Feb.  1843). 

Mandy,  Henry  (Jan   12,  1864 -Mid.  1867). 

Mandy,  Frederick,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  12,  1864 -Xmas.  1867). 

Mandy,  George  (Jan.  12,  1864-  Xmas.  1864). 

Mandy,  Francis,  br.  of  George  (Jan.  12,  1864 -Xmas.  1867); 
served  as  a  Papal  Zouave  in  the  Italian  campaign. 

Manley,  William   (Sep.,  1870 -Mid.  1874)  (April,  1876 -Mid. 

1876). 

Manley,  Marmaduke,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1878  -  Mid.  1879). 
Manners,  John  (Jan.  23,  1873 -Mid.  1877). 
Mannock,  Walter,  son  of  Patrick  Mannock,  Esq.  of  Clifford's 

Hall  ;  b.  1826  (Sep.  7,  1837  -  Xmas.  1840). 
Mansfield,  Alexander,  son  of  John  Mansfield,  Esq.,  of  Balli- 

namultina  ;  b.  1786  (July   29,  1797  -  Mid.  1804);  m    Paulina,  d.  of 

Patrick  Lattin,  Esq..  of  Morristown  Lattin  ;  died  July  1st,  1842. 

Mansfield,  Walter,  br  of  above;  b.  1788  (July  29,  1797- 
Feb.  1804) ;  m.  Frances,  d  of  Qwen  MclJermott,  Esq. ;  died  in  1849. 

Mansfield,  George  Patrick,  of  Morristown  Lattin,  eldest  son 
of  Alexander  Mansfield,  Esq.  ;  b.  1820  ;  J.P..  D.L  ,  High  Sheriff 
1851  (Nov.  26,  1837  -  Mid.  1841)  ;  m.  Mary  Frances,  d.  of  George 
liourke  O'Kelly,  Esq. 


APPENDIX.  83 

Mansfield,  Alexander  John,  second  son  of  Alexander  Mans- 
field: Esq.  (Sep.  II,  1840-  Mid.  1843) ;  Barrister-at-Iaw  ;  m.  Maria, 
d.  of  Sir  John  Howley  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1842. 

Mansfield,  William,  hr.  of  above  (Aug.  24,  1841  -  Nov.  1845)  ; 
Capt.  44th  Regt.  ;  died  of  wounds  received  before  Sebastopol  June 
28,  1855. 

Marenco,  Antonio  (July  n,  1871  -  Xmas.  1872). 

Marron,  Ciriaco  (Sep.  6,  1867  -  Mid.  1869). 

Marsh,  John  (Feb.  20,  1831  -  Feb.  1834). 

Marshall,  Frederick  (Oct.  9,  1877  -  Mid.  1879). 

Martin,  Patrick  (March  13,  1838 -Xmas.  1844). 

Martin,  Juan  (March  12,  1845 -Oct.  1849). 

Martin,  Miguel,  br.  of  above  (March  12,  1845  -  Mid.  1848). 

Martin,  John,  B.A.  (Sep.  1868 -Mid.  1874). 

Martin,  Thomas  (Sep.  17,  i876-Mid.  1882). 

Martin,  Richard  (Sep.  20,  1880 -Nov.  1884). 

Martin,  Francis  (Sep.   26,   1882 -Mid.  1888),  Good  Conduct 

Medal,  1888. 
Martin,  Charles  (Sep.  15,  1885-      ). 

[The  five  last  mentioned  are  sons  of  the  late  Thomas  Martin,  Esq.,  of 
Dublin,  and  nephews  of  Sir  Richard  Martin,  Bart.] 

Martin,  Ernest  Sydney  (Oct.  20,  1885  -  Mid.  1887)  (June  1888-). 
Martin,  Harold  (Oct.  20,  1885 -Mid.  1887)  (June  1888-     ). 
Martinez,  Manuel  (Aug.  24,  1841  -Mid.  1843). 
Martinez,  Valentine,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  24,  1841  -Mid.  1843). 
Martyn,  John  (Jan.  25,  1856- April  1858)  ;   died  in  1858. 
Maskell,  William  (Aug.  10,  1850 -Mid.  1855). 

Maskell,  Stuart  Eaton  (Aug.  16,  1852  -  Mid.  1860) ;  m.  Agnes, 

d.  of  Thomas  Abdy  Fellowes,  Esq. 

Maskell,  John  (April  19,  1866 -Xmas.  1866)  (in  Divinity). 
Masson,  Edward  (Jan.  20,  1842 -Feb.  1846). 
Masterson,  John  (Nov.  2,  1797 -June,  1802). 
Masterson,  Richard,  br.  of  above  (Nov.  2,  1797  -Oct.  1801). 

Mathew,  Charles  (April  26,  1881  -  Mid.  1883),  son  of  Judge 
Mathew,  of  India. 

Matthews,  James  (Aug.  13,  1853 -June,  1856). 

Maxwell-Stuart,  Herbert  (May  31,  1865-  Mid.  1871),  eldest 
son  of  the  Hon.  Henry  Maxwell-Stuart,  of  Traquair  Castle,  br.  of 
the  I3th  Baron  Henries. 


84  APPENDIX. 

Maxwell-Stuart,  Edmund,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1870 -Xmas. 
1875)  ;  Public  Man,  April -July,  1875  ;  m.  Hon.  Mary  Maxwell,  d. 
of  I3th  Baron  Herries. 

Mayans,  Louis  (March  23,  1859  -  Mid.  1861). 

Maycock,  Bernard  (Sep.  9,  1878 -Mid.  1884);  Matric.  Lond. 
Univ.,  1885. 

Meade,  Rev.  Joseph  (Jan.  1856  -  Oct.  1857). 
Meecham,  George  (Feb.  n,  iSn  -  Mid   1814). 
Meehan,  Mansell  (Sep.  3,  1812 -Mid.  1814). 
Meehan,  James  (April  8,  1856  -  Mid.  1858). 
Mello,  Peter  (Aug.  12,  1809 -Mid.  1815). 

Merefield,  John  Stanislaus  (Sep.  5,  1866  -Xmas.  1870)  ;  Mat. 
Lond.  Univ.,  1868. 

Meynell,  Thomas  (Nov.  28,  1840 -Mid.  1845). 
Michael,  Edward  (Aug.  23,  1862 -April,  1864). 

Michette,  Francis  (Feb.  4,  1817  -Xmas.  1822)  :  died  July  14, 

1823. 

Middleton,  Lionel  (Sep.  15,  1884 -Oct.  1885). 
Miller,  James  (Jan.  1865  -  Mid.  1865). 
Miller,  Frederick  (Sep.  17,  1884-     ). 
Miller,  Ernest,  br.  of  above  (April  10,  1888-     ). 
Minhear,  William  (Oct.  16,  1848 -Mid.   1849). 
Miranda,  Antonio  (Oct.  4,  1858 -Mid.  1862). 
Miranda,  Gabriel  (Aug.  28,  1861  -  Mid.  1862). 
Mitchell,  Robert  (Sep.  i,  1845  -  Mid.  1846). 
Mivart,  St.  George  (Oct.  21,  1844  -  Mid.  1846),  Ph.  U.,  M.D., 

F.R.S.,  V.P.Z.S.,  F.Z.S.  ;  Corresponding  Member  of  the  Academy 
of  Natural  Sciences.  Philadelphia  ;  Lecturer  on  Zoology  and  Com- 
parative Anatomy  at  St.  Mary's  Hospital  ;  Memb.  of  Counc.  of 
Linnaean  Soc. 

Molloy,  Philip  (June  2,  1804 -Sep.  1809). 

Molloy,  Robert,  br.  of  above  (June  2,  1804- June,  1807). 

Molloy,  John  (Aug.  i,  1819 -Mid.  1826). 

Molloy,  Edward  (Oct    10,  1819 -Nov.  1821). 

Molloy,  Charles  (Sep.  6,  1824 -Mid.  1828). 

Molloy,  William  (Sep.  18,  1827  -  Mid.  1828). 

Moloney,  David,  Rev.  (Feb.  17,  1888-      )  (in  Divinity). 

Mondelet,  Arthur  (Jan.  20,  1842  -  Mid.  1846). 


APPENDIX.  85 

Montis,  Raphael  (Jan.  18,  1866 -Mid.  1866). 
Moody,  Henry  (Jan.  1862  -  Mid.  1867). 
Moody,  Charles  (April  1865  -  Mid.  1874). 
Moody,  Edward  (April  1869 -Mid.  1876). 

[These  three  are  sons  of  Robert  Moody,  Esq. ,  of  Little  Malvern.] 
Mooney,  William  (Aug.  17,  i84o-Xmas.  1840). 
Mooney,  James,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  17,  1840  -  Mid.  1841). 
Moorat,  John  (Jan.  25,  1842 -Mid.  1848). 
Moorat,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  25,  1842  -  Mid  1848). 

Moore,  George   Henry,   J.P.,    D.L.,    son   of  George   Moore, 

Esq  ,  of  Moore  Hall ;    b.   1808  (Sep.  13,  1820  -  Dec.  1827)  ;  M.P. 

for  co.  Mayo  ;  m.  Mary,  d,  of  Maurice  Blake,  Esq.  ;  died  April  19, 

1870. 
Moore,   John,   br.  of  above;    b.    1812   (Sep.  13,  1820 -Mid. 

1823)  ;  died  1829. 

Moore,  Augustus,  br.  of  above;  b.  1817  (Oct.  16,  1827  -Mid. 

1830);  died  1845. 
Moore,  George  Augustus,  eldest  son  of  George  Henry  Moore, 

Esq.  ;  b.  1852  (Sep.  1861  -  Mid.  1868). 
Moore,  Maurice,  second  son  of  George  Henry  Moore,  Esq. ; 

b.  1853  (Feb.  5,  1865 -Mid.  1869)  ;  Capt.  88th  Regt. ;  served  with 

his  regiment  throughout  the  Kafir   War  of  1877-78,  and  the  Zulu 

War  of  1879;  Medal  with  Clasp. 

Moore,  Augustus,  third  son  of  George   Henry  Moore,  Esq. ; 
b.  1855  (Oct.  29,  1868  -  Mid.  1869). 

Moore,    George,    younger    br.    of   Very    Rev.    Dr.    Moore 
(Aug.  1832  -Xmas.  1832)  ;  died  Oct.  7,  1876. 

Moore,  James   Murtha,   of  Balahide,   Queen's  Co.    (Nov.    3, 
1874-  Mid.  1877)  ;  died  Jan.  30,  1878. 

Morales,  Joseph  (July  27,  1842 -Mid.  1844). 

More,  Thomas  Metcalfe,  of  Barnborough  Hall  (May  7,  1805- 
Mid.  1811)  ;  died  July  28,  1838. 

Moreno,  Manuel  (Feb.  7,  1842  -Oct.  1843). 

Moreno,  Albert,  son  of  above  (Sep.  20,  1887  -     ). 

Morgan,  Thomas  (Feb.  17,  i8io-Xmas.  1821);  died  Feb  1821, 

Moriarty,  Ambrose  (Jan.  29,  1887-     ). 

Morphy,  John  (July  17,  1824- Mid.  1827). 

Morrogh,  William  Plowden  (March  10,  1842  -  Mid,  1845). 

Morrogh,  Alexander  (Aug.  13,  1847 -Mid.  1854). 

12 


86  APPENDIX. 

Morrogh,  James  (Aug.  13,  1847 -Mid.  1851). 
Morrogh,  Edward  (Sep.  22,  1851  -Mid.  1855). 
Mosquera,  Alfred  (May  29,  1844 -Xmas.  1844). 
Mostyn,  Edward  br.  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  8th  Baronet,  b.  1813 

(Sep.   15,  1822 -Mid.   1824),  J. P.,  D.L.,  Captain  late  8th  Hussars; 

m.   Anastasia,  widow  of  Edward  Joseph  Smythe,   Esq.,  and  d.  of 

Sir  John  Fletcher-Fenton-Boughey,  Bart. 

Mostyn,  Roger,  son  of  Sir  Edward  Mostyn,  7th  Baronet, 
b.  1840  (Jan.  19,  1856  -  Mid.  1857)  ;  m.  Mary,  eldest  d.  of  Thomas 
A.  Perry,  Esq.,  of  Avon  Dasset. 

Mostyn,  Llewellyn,  nephew  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  8th  Baronet, 
(Sep.  29,  1870-  Mid.  1872)  ;  Solicitor  of  Gray's  Inn  ;  died  Oct.  26, 
1885. 

Mostyn,  Edward,  son  of  Captain  Edward  Mostyn;  b.  1857 
(Sep.  1869- June  1871)  (May  1873  -  Mid.  1873)  ;  m.  Cecily,  d.  of 
John  Reginald  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Rhode  Hill. 

Mostyn,  George,  son  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  8th  Baronet ;   b. 

1857  (Sep.  17,  1871  -Xmas.  1874). 
Mostyn,    Thomas,    son  of  Sir   Pyers    Mostyn,  8th  Baronet ; 

b.  1859  (April  17,  1871  -Xmas.  1878)  ;  Public  Man.  Sep  1877 -July 

1878. 
Mostyn,  Nicholas,  son  of  Sir  Pyers  Mostyn,  8th  Baronet ;  b. 

1865  (April  29,  1878 -Mid.  1880). 
Mostyn,  Montagu  John,  Son  of  the  Hon.  Montagu  Mostyn, 

br.  of  sixth  Baron  Vaux,  of  Harrowden  ;  b.  1870  (Sep.  14,  1885- 

April  1888). 

Mottet  de  la  Fontaine,  Henry  Edward  (July  21,   1848- 

Xmas.  1849),  Colonel   Madras  Staff  Corps  ;  was  present  with  his 

regiment  on  field  service  from  the  commencement  of  the  disturbances 

in  India  till  Nov.  2nd,  1857. 

Mottet,  Gustave  (Jan.  16,  1849 -Xmas.  1849). 
Mouchet,  Alphonsus  (Aug   1844 -Xmas.  1846). 
Moura,  Ignatius  (Oct.  4,  1852 -March  1855). 
Moya,  Nicholas  (Sep.  23,  1847 -April  1848). 
Moylan,  Richard  (April  17,  1809),  died  at  Oscott  Jan.  4,  1811. 
Mulligan,  Alfred  (Sep.  19,  1887  -         ). 
Murphy,  James,  of  Ringmahon,  J.P.,  D.L.  (March  i,  1813- 

Mid.  1814)  ;  died  Nov.  18,  1875. 

Murphy,  William,  br.  of  above  (March  i,  1813 -Mid.  1814). 
Murphy,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (March  i,  1813 -Mid.  1814). 
Murphy,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (March  i,  1813 -Mid.  1814). 


APPENDIX.  87 

Murphy,  John  (July  24,  1814 -Jan.  1817). 
Murphy,  Nicholas  (Oct.  4,  1841  -Mid.  1842). 

Murphy,  Jeremiah  J.,  of  Ashton,  Cork  (Sep.  15,  1846 -Mid. 

1849). 

Murphy,  John  (Sep.  1848 -Xmas.  1848). 
Murphy,  Edward  (Jan.  13,  1858 -Xmas.  1858);  Captain  5th 

Dragoon  Guards. 

Murphy,  Lawrence  (Jan.  13,  1858  -  Xmas.  1858)  ;  Captain  4th 
Royal  Irish  Dragoon  Guards. 

Murphy,  William  H.  (Feb.  3,  1864 -Mid.  1867). 

Murphy,  Patrick,  br.  of  William  H.  (Feb.  3,  1864 -Mid.  1867^. 

Murphy,  Patrick  St.  John  (Jan.  15,  1858 -Xmas.  1858)  (Sep. 
1860  -  Mid.  1863). 

Murphy,  John  (Jan.  23,  1858  -  Mid.  1858)  (Sep.  4,  1860  -  Mid. 
1866). 

Murphy,  Nicholas  Daniel  (Sep.  8, 1864  -  Mid.  1870);  Barrister- 

at-Law. 

[The  three  last  mentioned  were  sons  of  Nicholas  Daniel  Murphy,  Esq., 
M.P.  for  Cork.] 

Murphy,  William  (Sep.  4,  1860- Mid.  1862);  died  Sep.  22,  1865. 
Murphy,  Jerome  (Feb.  9,  1865 -Mid.  1871). 

[  The  two  last  mentioned  were  sons  of  James  Murphy,  Esq.,  of  Ringmahon.  J 
Murphy,  Hubert  (Sep.  15,  1884 -Xmas.  1886). 
Murphy,  Louis  (Sep.  15,  1884 -Xmas.  1886). 

These  two  were  sons  of  Jeremiah  J.  Murphy,  Esq.,  of  Ashton.  co.  Cork.J 

Murphy,  John  (Sep.  17,  1886-  ),  son  of  John  Murphy,  Esq., 
of  Middleton  ;  grandson  of  James  Murphy,  Esq..  of  Ringmahon. 

Myatt,  Dominic  (Jan.  n,  1831  -about  1836) ;  for  many  years 
Procurator  of  Sedgley  Park  ;  died  Feb.  14,  1873. 

Negroni,  Vincent  (Sep.  13,  1880 -Mid.  1881);  died  Dec.  6, 
1883. 

Nevill,  Cosmas,  son  of  Charles  Nevill,  Esq.,  of  Nevill  Holt 

(April  7,  1831  -  Aug.  1831). 
Nevill,  Henry,  son  of  George   Henry   Nevill,   Esq.  (Jan.  28, 

1870-  Xmas.  1873)  ;  m.  Anne  Mary,  d.  of  William  Fenwick,  Esq. 
New,  William  (Aug.  13,  1861  -Mid.  1867). 
Newark,  William  (Sep.  10,  1869 -June  1870)  (in  Divinity). 

Newdigate,  Edward,  son  of  Alfred  Newdigate,  Esq.,  M.A. ; 
(Sep.  25.  1877  -  Xmas.  1878). 


00  APPENDIX. 

Newton,  Edward  (June  4,  1801  -  Xmas.  1803). 
Newton,  Walter,  br.  of  above  (June  4,  1801  -  Mid.  1804). 
Nicholas,  William  (Sep.  1867 -Xmas.  1867). 
Nicholson,  Edward  (Sep.  1864  -  Mid.  1867). 
Nieva,  Raphael  (Sep.  13,  1860 -Mid.  1862). 
Nightingale,  Manby  (April  25,  1859 -May  1860). 
Nightingale,  George  (Aug.  24,  185  8 -Mid.  1860). 
Noel,  Frederic  (June  i8,~i862  -July  1862). 
Noeli,  Theodosius  (Aug.  4,  1843 -Mid.  1844). 
Nolan,  Thomas  (Aug.  i,  1798 -July  1803). 
Nolan,  Thomas  (Oct.  29,  1814 -July  1820). 
Nomico,  Michael  (Sep.  21,  1857  -Feb.  1860). 
Nomico,  Peiicles,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  21,  1857 -Sep.  1859). 

Northcote,  Edward  (May   22,  1861);  died  at  Stone  Jan.  4, 
1865. 

Nowlan,  Thomas  (Jan.  8,  1873 -Mid.  1877). 

Nugent,  Percy,   br.  of  Sir  Walter  Nugent,   Bart.,  of  Donore 

(Feb.  18,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 
Nugent,  Malachy,  second  son  of  the  late  Earl  of  Westmeath 

(Aug.  9.  1844 -Mid.  1852)  ;  Capt.  67th  Regt.  ;  fell  in  the  Chinese 

war,  Oct.  20,  1862  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ    1852. 
O'Brien,  Timothy,  son  of  Sir  Timothy  O'Brien,  Bart.,  (May  i, 

1840 -Jan.  1843);    m.  Mary,  d.  of  Carew  O'Dwyer,  Esq.;    died 

April  25,  1869. 
O'Brien,  John  (March  9,  1842  -  March  1843)  (Jan.  1846  -  Mid. 

1847). 
O'Brien,  James,  br.   of  above  (March  9,  1842 -March  1843) 

(Jan.  1846  -  Mid.  1848). 
O'Brien,  Jerome,  br.  of  above  (March  9,  1842  -March  1843) 

(Jan.  1846 -Mid.  1847). 
O'Brien,  John,  son  of  Sir  Timothy  O'Brien,  Bart.  (Sep.  18, 

1845  •  March  1847);    Captain  3Oth  Regiment   and   3rd  Fusiliers; 

died  Jan.,  1869. 

O'Brien,  John  (Aug.  16,  1851  -Mid.  1852). 

O'Brien,  Rev.  James  (Sep.  1867),  ordained  Subdeacon  April 

1 1.  1868  ;  died  at  Oscott,  Dec.  4,   1868. 
O'Brien,  Adolph  (Jan.  27,  1875  -  Mid-  1879). 
O'Brien,  Patrick  (Sep.  14,  1885 -Oct.  1885). 
O'Brien,  Lucius,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1885 -Oct.  1885). 


APPENDIX.  89 

O'Callaghan,  Richard  (Sep.  15,  1884 -July,  1885). 

O'Connell,  Morgan  John,  son  of  John  O'Connell,  Esq.,  of 
Grenagh,  and  nephew  of  Daniel  O'Connell,  Esq.,  M.P.  ;  b.  1811 
(April  19,  1826  -  Xnias.  1829)  ;  M.P.  for  co.  Kerry  ;  m.  Mary,  d.  of 
Charles  Bianconi,  Esq.  ;  died  July  2,  1875. 

O'Connell,    Maurice,    br.   of  above  (Sep.   17,   1833),  died  at 

Oscott  Nov.  22,  1836. 

O'Connell,  James  Donal,  son  of  Dasiel  James  O'Connell,  Esq., 
of  Grenagh  (Sep.  17,  1874 -Xmas.  1881)  ;  Lieut.  i8th  Royal  Irish 
Regiment. 

O'Connell,  Donal,  son  of  Daniel  James  O'Connell,  Esq.,  of 
Grenagh  (Sep.  n,  1878  -  Mid  1882). 

O'Connell,  John,  son  of  John  O'Connell,  Esq.,  and  great- 
grandson  of  Daniel  O'Connell,  Esq.,  M.P.  (Sep.  14,  1886  -  ). 

O'Connell,  Daniel  (Sep.  i,  1826 -Mid.  1828). 
O'Connell,  Maurice  (Sep.  i,  1826-  Mid.  1829). 
O'Connell,  Jeremiah  (Oct.  28,  1829 -Xmas.  1831). 
O'Connell,  Daniel  (Sep.  17,  1879 -Jan.  1860). 
O'Connell,  David  (Nov.  17,  1883 -Feb.  1884). 
O'Connor,  Patrick  (April  17,  1809-.  Mid.  1811). 
O'Connor,  Hugh  (July  19,  1811  -Mid.  1818). 
O'Connor,  Edmund  (Sep.  9,  1848 -Xmas.  1852). 
O'Conor,  David  Hinchy  (Aug.  18,  1822  -Xmas,  1824). 

O'Conor,  Charles,  J.P,  D.L.,  of  Mount -Druid,  son  of  Denis 
O'Conor,  Esq.,  of  Mount  Druid,  b.  1847  (Dec.  3,  1859-  Mid.  1867), 
Public  Man,  Sep.  1866 -July  1867. 

O'Conor,  Arthur,  son  of  Arthur  O'Conor,  Esq.,  of  The  Palace, 
Elphin  (Oct.  23,  1868  -  Xmas.  1870). 

O'Conor,  Charles   Matthew,    br.    of  above    (Jan.    14,    1873- 

Mid.  1874). 

O'Conor,   Maurice,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  24,  1876 -Mid.    1876) 

(Sep.  1879  -  Mid.  1880). 

O'Conor,  Charles  Hugh,  son  of  the  O'Conor  Don  (May  i, 
1886 -Mid.  1886.) 

O'Conor,  Thomas  (Sep.  19,  1887-        ). 
O'Donel,  Manus  (Sep.  1884 -Xmas.  1884). 
O'Donnell,  Thomas  (June  8,  1870 -Mid.  1875). 
O'Donnell,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (June  8,  1870-  Mid.  1875) 

(April.  1876  -  Mid.  1876). 


90  APPENDIX. 

O'Donoghue,  The,  Daniel  O'Donoghue  of  the  Glens,  son  of 
Charles  James  O'Donoghue  of  the  Glens,  b.  1833  (Nov.  29,  1847  - 
Feb.  1851)  ;  M.P.  for  Tralee  and  co  Tipperary  ;  Public  Man,  Dec. 
1850- Jan.  1851  ;  m.  Mary,  d.  of  Sir  John  Ennis,  Bart. 

O'Dowd,  Edward  (Jan.  21,  1856- Xmas.  1856). 
O'Dwyer,  Robert  (Sep.  13,  1839  -  Mid.  1840). 
O'Dwyer,  Gillespie,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  1839  -  Mid.  1840). 
O'Dwyer,  Andrew  (Oct.  i'6,  1851  -Mid.  1853). 
O'Farrell,  Daniel  (Aug.  i,  1798 -Aug.  1804). 
O'Flaherty,  Edmund  (Sep.  15,  1833 -Mid.  1839). 
O'Gorman,  Alexander  (Sep.  10,  1842 -Mid.  1843). 
O'Gorman,  Nicholas  Purcell  (April  16,  1858 -Mid.  1858),  son 

of  Nicholas  Smith  O'Gorman,  Esq.,  of  Bellevue,  co.  Clare  ;  Major 
loth  Regiment. 

O'Halloran,  John  (Jan.  1830- April  1830). 
O'Halloran,  Launcelot  (Oct.  14,  1854 -Mid.  1857). 

O'Kelly,  George  Lionel,  J.P.  (Jan.  17,  1844 -Xmas.  1845) ;  son 

of  Peter  de  Pentheny  O'Kelly,  Esq.,  of  Barrettstown. 
O'Leary,  John  McCarthy,  son  of  John  McCarthy  O'Leary,  Esq., 

of  Coomlagane,  co.  Cork;    b.   1840  (Aug.  20,    1851  -  Mid.  1855); 

late  of  the  34th  Regiment  ;    m.  La  Comtesse  Anna  de  Villegas  de 

St.  Pierre  Jette  :   died  in  1870. 
O'Leary,  Denis  McCarthy,  br.  of  the  above  (Dec.   i,   1853- 

Mid.  1855)  ;   m.  Frances,  d.  of  J.  Rowe.  Esq.,  of  Victoria. 
Oliva,  Joachim  (Oct.  8,  1850 -Mid.  1853). 
Oliveira,  Manuel  (July  26,  1853 -Mid.  1854). 
Oliveira,  Augustus  (May  5,  1855 -Feb.  1856). 
Oliver,  William  (Oct.  2,  1868 -Xmas.  1875). 
Oliver,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  2,  1868 -Xmas.  1875). 

O'Loghlen,  Hugh,  son  of  the  Rt  Hon.  Sir  Michael  O'Loghlen, 
and  brother  of  Sir  Bryan  O'Loghlen,  present  Baror.et ;  b.  1827 
(Jan.  16,  1841  -Mid.  1842)  ;  died  Nov.  19.  1850. 

O'Loghlen,  Michael,  br.  of  the  above  (Aug.  26,  1841  -  Xmas. 
1842)  ;  Member  of  the  Irish  Bar. 

O'Loghlen,  Patrick  (Sep.  13,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 

O'Mahony,  Denis  (Aug.  14,  1857 -Mid.  1861). 

O'Malley,  Charles,  Rev.  (Oct.  6,  1887  -  Feb.  1888)  (in 
Divinity). 

O'Meagher,  William  (April  26,  i8i8-Mid.  1822). 
O'Mullane,  John  (June  n,  1813 -July  1814). 


APPENDIX.  91 

O'Mulrenin,  Richard  (Aug.  16,  1857  -  March  1859). 

O'Neill,  John  (Sep.  21,  1819  -Xmas.  1823). 

O'Neill,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  21,  1819 -Mid.  1824). 

O'Neill,  James  (Aug.  n,  1838 -Mid.  1841;. 

O'Neill,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  n,  1838  -  Mid.  1840). 

O'Neill,  Charles  (Nov.  30,  1847  -  May  1848). 

Oneto,  Francis  (Aug.  12,  1853 -Xmas.  1854). 

Ordonez,  Charles  (Sep.  20,  1882  -June  1885). 

Ordonez,  Gabriel,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  20,  1882-  June  1885). 

O'Reilly,  William  (May  22,  1799 -March  1804). 

O'Reilly,  John  (Feb.  n,  rSio-Feb.  1814). 

O'Reilly,  Francis  (Sep.  5,  1812 -Aug.  1817). 

O'Reilly,  Richard,  eldest  son  of  Richard  O'Reilly,  Esq.,  M.D., 

of  Sans  Souci,  (Sep.  3,  1839  -  March  1843)  ;  died  July  17,  1870. 
O'Reilly,  John,  son  of  Richard  O'Reilly,  Esq.  (Aug.  12,  1846- 

Mid.  1852). 
O'Reilly,  Andrew,  br.  of  above  (May  3,  1839  -  Mid.  1841). 

O'Reilly,  Joseph,   son  of  Richard    O'Reilly,  Esq.  (Aug.    12, 
1856  -  Mid.  1860)  ;  m.  Fanny,  d.  of  Sir  James  Power,  Bart. 

O'Reilly,    Pearce,   son    of  Richard   O'Reilly,  Esq.    (Aug.  12, 

1856 -Mid.  1862);  Capt.  66th  Regt.  ;    m.  Anastasia  Blake;  died 

Oct.  12,  1871. 
O'Reilly,   Henry,   son   of  Richard   O'Reilly,   Esq.   (Aug.   20, 

1859 -Mid.  1864)  ;  died  April  17,  1867. 
O'Reilly,  Richard  Pearce,  son  of  Capt.  Pearce  O'Reilly  (April 

15,  1882-     )  ;  Public  Man,  Oct.  1887-  Mid.  1888. 
O'Reilly,  Percy,  son  of  Philip  O'Reilly,  of  Colamber  (Sep.  27, 

1887  -  March  1888). 

O'Reilly,  John  (Aug.  12,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 
O'Rorke,  Lawrence  (Oct.  19,  1848 -Xmas.  1849). 
O'Rorke,  Frederick  (Oct.  12,  1869 -Mid.  1871). 
O'Rorke,  Alexander,  br.  of  above  (Oct  12,  1869 -Mid.  1871). 
O'Rorke,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  29,  1869 -Xmas.  1870). 
O'Shea,  William    (Sep.    i,    1850 -Nov.    1855) ;  formerly  M.  P. 

for    Clare ;    late   Capt.    i8th    Hussars  ;    m.    Katharine,    sister    of 

Sir  Evelyn  Wood. 

O'Sullivan,  James  (Sep.  13,  1824 -Mid.  1826). 
O'Sullivan,  Morty  (Sep.  9,  1827  -  Nov.  1828). 


92  APPENDIX. 

O'Sullivan,  Daniel  (Sep.  9,   1827 -Mid.    1831)  (April   1834- 
Mid.  1835). 

O'Sullivan,  John  (April  17,  i828-Xmas.  1828). 
O'Sullivan,  Eugene  (Dec.  12,  1882  -Mid.  1884). 
O'Sullivan,  Vincent,  br.  of  above  (Dec.  12,  1882  -  Mid.  1884) 

(Oct.  1887  -    ). 

O'Sullivan,  Percy,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  1887-     ). 
O'Toole,  James  (Aug.  17,  1855  -Mid.  1858). 
O'Toole,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  17,  1855  -  Mid.  1858). 
Ozorio,  Manuel  (a  short  time  in  1861  -     ). 
Pacheco,  Telemachus  (May  7,  1853- Aug.  1856). 
Paez,  Raymund  (Oct.  17,  1815 -April,  1819). 
Pagliano,  John  (Sep.  15,  1840  -  Mid.  1844). 
Palacio,  Nicholas  (Aug.  16,  i839-Xmas.  1839). 

Palles,  Andrew  Christopher  (Sep.  16,  1813 -May  1818);  father 
Justice  Palles,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  Ireland  ;  died  Oct.  31,  1880. 

Palmer,  Eustace  Zouch  (Jan.  28,  1856-     ),  sonofCapt.  Alfred 

Zouch  Palmer. 
Palmer,   Oswald  Zouch,  half-br.  of  above  (Jan.   1866  -  Mid. 

1868). 
Palmer,  Armory  Zouch,  br.  of  above  (April  10,  1869  -  Xmas. 

1873);  Public  Man  Sep. -Dec.,  1873. 

Palmer,  Alfred  Zouch,  br.  of  above  (April  18,    1870) ;  died 
at  Oscott  April  23,  1870. 

Palmer,  Edward  (April  23,  1879  -  Mid.  1883). 

Palmer,   Alexander,  br.  of  above  (April  23,  1879 -April  22, 

1884). 

Palmer,  Alfred,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  i88i-May  1885). 
Palmer,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  23,  1882  -  Mid.  1885). 
Papon,  Louis  (May  2,  1846 -Oct.  1846). 
Parker,  Edward  (Aug.  24,  1858 -Mid.  1860). 
Parsons,  William  (Nov.  15,  1838 -Mid.  1843). 

Parsons,  John  (Aug.  15,  1859 -Xmas.   1861);   Public  Man, 
March  to  Dec.  1861. 

Pater,  Joseph  (Aug.  17,  1841 -Mid.  1843). 
Pater,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  17,  1841 -Mid.  1843). 
Patten,  Robert  (April  13,  1883 -Mid.  1887). 
Patten,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (May  22,  1888-     ). 


APPENDIX.    .  93 

Patxot,  Manuel  (Aug.  29,  1851 -Mid.  1852.) 
Paxton,  J.  (Jan.  28,  1802 -Mid.  1803). 

Payne,  John  Chrysostom  (Nov.  16.  1818)  ;  died  at  Oscott, 
Sep.  n,  1824. 

Payne,  Louis  (Nov.  30,  1885 -June  1886)  (in  Divinity). 
Peacan,  William  (Sep.  24,  i8i6-Aug.  1818). 
Peacock,  Francis  (May  31,  1838 -Nov.  1839). 
Peake,  Edward  (Aug.  8,  1832- Mid.  1836). 
Pearson,  W.  S.  (Jan.  1846 -Mid.  1846). 
Pedemonte,  Joseph  (Sep  21,  1865 -Mid.  1868). 
Pedraja,  P.  (Jan.  2,  1843 -Mid.  1843). 
Pedrosa,  Fabricio  (Sep.  6,  1866 -Sep.  19,  1866). 
Peixoto,  Adam  (Sep.  20,  1808 -Mid.  1812). 
Peixoto,  Alfred  (July  20,  1857 -Mid.  1859). 
Pendrell,  James  (Feb.  14,  1831 -Dec.  1832). 
Penillos,  Joachim  (July  22,  1837 -Xmas.  1838). 
Penillos,  Sebastian  (April  19,  1838 -Xmas.  1838). 
Pennefather,  William  (Jan.  1870 -Mid.  1870).     R.I.P. 
Perez,  Ubaldo  (June  30,  1849 -Mid.  1850). 
Perkins,  Edgar  Colin  (Sep.  13,  1886 -Mid.  1888). 
Perreira,  Ferando  (Sep.  5,  1853 -March  1854). 
Perry,  James  (Feb.  16,  1831 -Mid.  1832). 
Perry,  Thomas  (Oct.  7,  1838 -Nov.  1838). 

Perry,  Peter  James  (Aug.  17,  1843 -Xmas.  1848);  m.  Alice, 
d.  of  William  Barren  Rodway,  Esq.  ;  died  Jan.  23,  1881. 

Perry,  James,  son  of  Peter  James  Perry,  Esq.  (April  26,  1881-   ). 

Petre,  George,  son  of  the  Hon.  George  Petre,  and  nephew  of 
the  loth  Baron  Petre  (Nov.  30,  1794- Mid.  1803)  ;  died  March 
1829. 

Petre,   Henry   William,   of  Dunkenhalgh,    son   of  the  Hon. 

George  Petre,  and  nephew  of  the  loth  Baron  Petre  ;  b.  1791  (Sep. 
29,  1798  -  Sep.  1804);  m.,  1st.  Elizabeth  Anne  Glynn;  2ndly, 
Adeliza  Mary,  d.  of  Henry  Howard,  Esq.,  of  Corby ;  3rdly, 
Martha  Agatha,  d.  of  John  Hofnell.  Esq. ;  died  Nov.  26.  1852. 

Petre,  Philip  William,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  9,  1799-  June  1805); 
m.  Mrs.  Maria  Annoot ;  died  Aug.  22,  1846. 


94  .     APPENDIX. 

Petre,  Charles,  son  of  the  Hon.  Charles  Berney  Petre,  son  of 
the  loth  Baron  Petre  ;  b.  1823  (April  5,  1838  -  Mid.  1839)  ;  Capt. 
late  7th  Dragoon  Guards  ;  m.  Hon.  Charlotte  Eliza,  d.  of  the  nth 
Lord  Petre. 

Petre,  Edward  Henry,  of  Whitley  Abbey,  J.P.  and  D.L.,  High 
Sheriff  1887,  son  of  Henry  Petre,  Esq.,  of  Dunkenhalgh  ;  b.  1831 
(Feb.  27,  1839 -Xmas.  1842);  late  Captain  Lancashire  Yeomanry 
Hussars;  m.  Lady  Gwendaline  Talbot,  sister  of  Bertram,  I7th 
Earl  of  Shrewsbury. 

Petre,  Oswald,  br.  of  Edward  Henry  Petre,  Esq.,  of  Whitley 
Abbey  ;  b.  1832  (Feb.  27,  1839  -  Xmas.  1842)  ;  Lieut.  Carabiniers  ; 
died  in  Crimea.  Nov.  25,  1855. 

Petre,  Francis  Loraine,  son  of  the  Hon.  Edmund  Petre,  and 
nephew  of  the  I2th  Baron  Petre  ;  b.  1852  (Sep.  1864- April  1870); 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1868  ;  Intermed.  Arts,  1869  ;  Good  Conduct 
Medal,  1870  ;  Barrister-at-Law  ;  Judge  in  India. 

Petre,  Ralph  William,  son  of  the  Hon.  Arthur  Petre,  and 
nephew  of  the  I2th  Baron  Petre  ;  b.  1856  (Sep.  7,  1866  -  Mid.  1874); 
late  Attache  at  the  English  Embassy  in  Brussels  ;  Matric.  Lond. 
Univ.  1873  5  Intermed.  Arts  1876  ;  died  April  14,  1884. 

Petre,  Cecil,  son  of  the  Hon.  Arthur  Petre,  b.  1859  (Sep.  10, 

1867);  died  at  Oscott  Dec.  II,  1868. 
Petre,   Lawrence,  son  of  the  Hon.    Arthur   Petre,   b.    1864 

(Sep.  9,  1878  -  March  1881). 
Petre,  Vincent,  son  of  the  Hon.  Arthur  Petre  (Sep.   1875- 

March  1881)  ;  died  March  2,  1883. 
Petre,  Algernon,  son  of  Sir  George  Glynn  Petre,  grand-nephew 

of  the  tenth  Baron  Petre  (May  I,  1878 -Mid.  1879). 
Phillips,  Owen  (Sep.  13,  1880 -Xmas.  1881)   (in  Divinity). 

Phillips,  Stephen,  the  first  Student  at  Oscott  (May  17 94 -July 

1796)  ;   m.  Hon.  Maria  Juliana,  d  of  the  tenth  Baron  Petre. 
Phillipson,  Thomas  (Aug.  20.  1860 -Mid.  1862). 
Pike,  Edward  Rochfort  (Jan.  18,  1876 -Mid.  1881). 
Pike,  Cuthbert,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  20,  i88o-Xmas.  1884). 
Pineyro,  Frederick  (Mar.  22,  1850 -Feb.  1851.) 
Pinto,  Bernardino  (Aug.  14,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 
Pinto,  Custod  (Aug.  14,  1840 -Jan.  1842). 
Pinto  Leite,  Licinio  (Nov.  3,  1855 -Xmas.  1858). 
Pinto  Leite,  Adeline,  br.  of  above  (July  30,  1856  -Xmas.  1862). 
Pinto  Leite,  Flavio,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  23,  1862 -Mid.  1866). 
Pinto  Leite,  Joachim,  br.  of  above  (June  23,  1863  -  Mid.  1868). 


APPENDIX.  95 

Pinto  Leite,  Louis,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  17,  1868 -Mid.  1870). 

Pisani,  Bartholomew  (June  3,  1841  -Mid.  1846). 

Pitt  Byrne,  Charles  (Sep.  12,  1863 -Mid.  1864). 

Plana,  Miguel  (Feb.  7,  1885  -  Xmas  1886). 

Plancarte,  Louis  (Aug.  26, 1856  -  Mid.  1862) ;  Good  Conduct 

Medal  1862. 

Plant,  Henry  (Feb.  13,  1837 -Xmas.  1837). 
Plant,  Edward  Henry  (Sep.    25,    1856 -Mid.  1865);  Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.  1864,  52nd  in  honours ;  Intermed.  Arts  1865. 
Plant,  Frederick,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  17,  1861  -Mid.  1865). 
Plant,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  1862  -  Mid.  1867). 
Plant,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  7,  1865 -Mid.   1869)  (short 

time  in  1873). 
Plant,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Sep.    1867 -Mid.   1869)   (short 

time  in  1873). 

Playfair,  Arthur  Lyon  (Sep.  19,  1884 -Feb.  1886). 
Plunkett,  Oliver  (Aug.  17,  1814 -Mid.  1817). 
Plunkett,  James,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  17,  1814 -Mid.  1821). 
Plunkett,  James  (Aug.  10,  1846 -Mid.  1849). 
Poggio,  Francis  (Jan.  12,  1850 -Mid.  1851). 
Poncia,  Thomas  (Aug.  30,  1842 -Xmas.  1846). 

Poole,    Charles    Ruscombe    (Sep.    10,    1863  -  Xmas.    1868); 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1869  ;  Barrister-at-law  ;  died  July  7,  1884. 

Poole,  Walter  Ruscombe,  B.A.,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  10,  1863- 
Mid.  1870)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1869  ;  B.A.,  1873. 

Poole,  Henry  Runscombe,  br.  of  above  (April  i,  1872 -April 

1877.) 

Porter,  George  (Feb.  15,  1826 -Mid.  1827). 
Potestad,  Louis  (June  5,  1844 -Xmas.  1846). 
Potestad,  Louis  (April  n,  1 874 -April  18,  1874). 

Powell,  Charles  James  (Sep.  8,   1864  -  Xmas.   1866)  •    died 

Jan.  14.  1867. 

Powell,  Dunstan  (May  15,  1875  -  Mid.  1879). 
Powell,  Sebastian,  br.  of  above  (April  9,  1877  -Mid.  1882). 
Power,    Nicholas,    J.P.,    D.L.   (Aug.  22,  1800  -  June  1803)  ; 

M.P.  for  co.  Waterford  ;  m.  Margaret  Mahon  ;  died  Feb.  1873. 

Power,  Patrick,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  22,   1800 -June,  1803); 
J.P.  and  D.L.,  M.P.  for  Waterford  ;  m.  Mary  Snow. 


f)6  APPENDIX. 

Power,  Patrick  (Dec.  9.  1808 -Mid.  1811). 

Power,  Charles  (Jan.  n,  i8io-Mid.  1811). 

Power,  Nicholas  (Aug.  19,  i8io-Mid.  1816). 

Power,  John  (May  9,  1815 -May,  1819). 

Power,  Robert  (Aug.  19,  1815 -June  1820). 

Power,  Anthony  (July  20,  1820 -April  1827). 

Power,  Edward  ijuly  20,  1820 -Oct.  1822). 

Power,  Nicholas  (June  20,  1821  -Aug.  1823). 

Power,  Edward  (June  20,  1821  -Aug.  1823). 

Power,  Charles  Robert  (Oct.  n,  1825 -Mid.  1826). 

Power,  David  (Aug.  23,  1828  -  March  1842). 

Power,  Robert  (Aug.  12,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 

Power,  Pierce  (Feb.  6,  1844 -Mid.  1846). 

Power,  Frederick,   son   of  Nicholas   Alfred    Power,  Esq.,  of 

Bellevue,  co.  Kilkenny  (Sep.  22,  1859  -Mid.  1861). 
Power,  James  Talbot,  D.L.  city   of   Dublin,  second   son   of 

Sir  James  Talbot   Power,   Bart.   (Sep.  12,  1863  -  Mid.   1868)  ;  m. 

Gertrude  Frances,  d.  of  Thomas  Hayes,  Esq. 
Power,  Thomas  Talbot,  third  son  of  Sir  James  Talbot  Power, 

Bart.  (Sep.  i875-Mid.  1880) :  m.  Margaret,  d.  of  Thomas  Martin,  Esq. 
Power,  Maurice  (Oct.  10,  1858 -Mid.  1862). 
Power,  James  Livingstone  (Oct.  10,  1858 -Nov.  1865). 

[  Sons  of  Dr.  Maurice  Power  of  Queenstown.] 
Pozo,  Austin  (April  2,  1852). 
Prendergast,  John  (May  3,  1809 -Oct.  1810)  (Nov.   1811  - 

Aug.  1812). 

Prendergast,   Gerald  N.   (April  24,    1876  -  Xmas.    1878) ; 

Lieut    King's  .Royal  Rifles. 

Prendergast,  Reginald  (April  9,  1877 -Oct.  1880). 

[  The  last  two  are  sons  of  Colonel  Lenox  Prendergast.] 

Prentis,  George  (Sep.  30,  1885  -Mid.  1888). 

Price,  Albert  Edward  (Sep.  8,  1873) ;  stayed  for  a  few  days  only. 

Privilegio,  Edmund  (Oct.  21,   1851 -Xmas.   1857);    Public 

Man,  Jan.  -  March,  1857. 

Privilegio,  Charles  (Feb.  21,  1855 -Xmas.  1856). 

Pugin,  Cuthbert,  son  of  Augustus  Pugin,  Esq.  (Jan.  26,  1853- 

Mid.  1855). 

Quertier,  Eugene  (Aug.  12,  1846 -Mid.  1847). 


APPENDIX.  97 

Quevedo,  Manuel  (Aug.  15,  1839 -Jan.  1840), 

Quill,  Albert  (Sep.  18,  1859 -Mid.  1860). 

Quill,  William,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  185  9 -Mid.  1860). 

Quin,  Michael  (Oct.  14,  1842 -Mid.  1844). 

Quinn,  Thomas  (March  21,  1863 -Xmas.  1863). 

Quintana,  Richard  (August  8,  1838 -Xmas.  1839). 

Quintana,  Martin  (May  7,  1864 -Mid.  1865). 

Quirke,  John  (Sep.  8,  i879-Mid.  1885) ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ., 

1885  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1885. 

Quirke,  Edwin,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1883- Mid.  1885). 
Radcliffe,  Joseph  Edward,  eldest  son  of  Sir  Percival  Radcliffe, 

Bart.  (Sep.  21,  1869  -  Xmas.  1876)  :  Capt.  $th  West  York  Militia  ; 

m.  Catharine,  d.  of  John  Reginald  Talbot,   Esq.,  of  Rhode   Hill ; 

Public  Man,  Sep.  -  Dec.,  1876  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1887. 

Radcliffe,   Henry  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  15,  1874 -Mid. 

1876)  (Jan.  1877  -March  1877)  (Sep.  1878 -Mid.  1880). 
Radcliffe,   Philip,  br.  of  above  (Sep.   15,  1874 -Mid.    1880); 

Lieut.  Royal  Engineers. 
Radford,  John  (Aug.  3,  1843 -Mid.  1846). 

Ram,  Arthur,  son  of  Stephen  Ram,  Esq.,  of  Ramsfort  (Oct.  14, 

1 864 -Mid.  1866). 

Ramirez,  Louis  (June  30,  1811  -March  1814). 
Ramos,  Manuel  (May  22,  1847  -  Mid.  1853). 
Ramos,  Thomas  Jose,  br.  of  above  (May  22,  i847-Mid.  1855); 

died  Dec.  15,  1866. 
Ramos,  Anthony,  br.  of  above  (May  22,  1847 -April  1850). 

R.I.P. 

Ramos,  Mariano,  br.  of  above  (May  6,  1858  -  Mid.- 1861). 
Ramos,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (May  6,  1858  -Mid.  1863). 
Ramos,  Raymund,  br.  of  above  (May  6,  1858 -May   1867). 

R.I.P. 

Ramos,  Philip,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1861  -  May  1867).     R.I.P. 
Ramos,  Julio,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1861  -  Mid.  1863).     R.I.P. 
Ramsey,  Charles  (Oct.  16,  1862 -Xmas.  1862). 
Ransford,  Edward  A.,  Rev.  (Aug.   17,  1861  -  May  30,   1866) 

(in  Divinity). 
Ransford,   John    (a   short    time   in    1865);    drowned   in   the 

Carnatic. 

Raphael,  Lewis  (Sep.  22,  1795  -July  1800). 


98  APPENDIX. 

Rayment,  John  (Aug.  18,  1812 -June  1814). 
Reafrecha,  Charles  (Sep.  3,  1842 -March  1844). 
Rebello,  Anthony  (May  19,  1809 -March  1811). 
Rebello,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (May  19,  1809 -Jan.  1810). 
Rebello.  Charles  (Jan.  17,  1836 -Xmas.  1841). 
Rebello,  Francis  (Jan.  19,  1838 -Mid.  1842). 
Rebello,  William  Atkins  (May  25,  1849  -  Mid.  1850). 

Reddin,  Edmund  (March  17,  1851 -Xmas.  1851);  died 
Sep.  10,  1879. 

Redington,  Christopher  Talbot,  B.A.,  Christ  Ch.  Oxford,  J.P., 
D.L.,  Son  of  Sir  Thomas  Redington,  K.C.B.  (Oct.  15,  1857  -  Mid. 
1864),  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  National  Education  in  Ireland, 
Good  Conduct  Medal,  1864. 

Redmond,  Walter  (Sep.  29,  1864 -Xmas.  1868),  Major  3rd 

Battalion  Royal  Irish  Regiment. 

Renouf,  Peter  le  Page  (March  7,  1842 -Mid.  1846)  (in 
Divinity),  one  of  her  Majesty's  School  Inspectors ;  Keeper  of  the 
Oriental  Antiquities  of  the  British  Museum. 

Renteria,  Celestine  (Sep.  9,  1873 -June  1875). 

Revill,  Augustine  (Sep.  1868  -  Jan.  1874),  Public  Man,  Jan. 
1874. 

Rhodes,  Francis  (June  12,   1872  -  Mid.   1876),  Lieut.  Royal 

Fusiliers. 

Rhodes,  Ignatius,  br.  of  above  (June  12,  1872  -  April  1876), 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1879. 

Ribeiro,  Antonio  (Sep.  18,  1884  -  Mid.  1885). 
Rice,  John  (Sep.  1872  -  April  1877). 
Rice,  William  (Sep.  1872 -Mid.  1877). 
Rice,  George  (Sep.  1874 -Mid.  1878). 

Richards,   Edward   Harrinson    (Sep.    19,   1863  -  Mid.  1869)  ; 

a  Magistrate  in  the  West  African  colony  of  Lagos. 
Riddell,  Thomas,  of  Felton   Park,    son    of  Thomas    Riddell, 

Esq.,  of  Felton;    b.   1828  (April    16.  1841 -Mid.  1848);  m.  Lady 

Henrietta  Maria  Plunkett,  d.  of   the   gth   Earl  of  Fingall  ;  died  at 

Barcelona  May  24,  1867. 

Riddell,  John  Giffard,  br.  of  above,  now  of  Felton  and  Swin- 
burne Castle.  J. P.;  b.  1830  (April  16,  1841  -  Mid.  1851);  m.,  isl, 
Mademoiselle  Sapelier  ;  2ndly,  Victoria  Henrietta  Purcell. 

Ridge,  Joseph  (Oct.  28,  1830 -Oct.  1833). 

RiggS,  Francis  (July  5,  1867 -Dec.  1869); 'head  of  the  firm 
of  Riggs  and  Co.,  Bankers,  Washington. 


P-- 


'.J  APPENDIX.  99 

Riley,  William  Felix  (Aug.  17,  1838-  Mid.  1840)  ;  Capt.  52nd 
Light  Infantry  :  died  Sep.  8,  1885. 

Riley,  John  E.  (April  29,  1840  -  Mid.  1841);  Major  88th 
Connaught  Rangers  ;  served  all  through  the  Crimean  and  Indian 
Camp?igns. 

Riley,  Charles  H.  (Aug.  18,  1840  -  Mid.  1845) ;  Captain  Indian 
Army  ;  attached  to  the  Turkish  contingent  during  Crimean  War. 

Riley,  Frederick  A.   (Aug.  25,   1843 -Xmas.   1850);    Captain 

Rifle  Brigade  ;  served  through  Crimean  War. 
Riley,  George  F.  (Aug.  25,  1843- April,  1847);    died  Aug.  24, 

1848. 

Riley,  Philip  Alfred  (Oct.  5,  1849  -  Nov.  1855)  ;  Captain  of 
47th  Regiment  ;  served  on  the  Gold  Coast  ;  Public  Man,  Aug.  -  Nov. 
1855;  died  Sep.  II,  1882, 

[  These,  with  Canon  Riley,  were  the  sons  of  W.  F.  Riley,  Esq.,  of 
Forest  Hill.  Windsor.] 

Riley,  Ernest,  son  of  Major  John  Riley  (Jan.  19,  1876 -Mid. 

1878  ;  Lieut.  2nd  Dragoon  Guards. 

Riverol,  Joseph  (July  30,  1836  -  Mid.  1839). 

Roberts,  Hugh  (Aug.  13,  i8io-May,  1814). 

Robinson,  Michael  (Sep.  1864 -Xmas.  1864). 

Robles,  Theodore  (July  6,  1864 -Mid.  1865). 

Robson,  Frank  (Sep.  1875  -Xmas.  1878). 

Robson,  William,  br.  of  above  (May  10,  1878 -Xmas.  1879). 

Roby,  Samuel  (Aug.  n,  1838 -Xmas.  1840). 

Roche,  Francis  (June  13,  1825 -Mid.  1826). 

Roche,  Anthony  (Oct.  5,  1844 -May,  1849)  (in  Divinity). 

Roche,  Thomas  Redington,  of  Ryehill,  son  of  Stephen  Roche, 
Esq.,  of  Granagh  Castle  (Nov.  25,  1847 -Xmas.  1848);  High 
Sheriff  co.  Galway  1869  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1854  :  m.  Jane 
Elizabeth,  d.  of  Anthony  Cliffe.  Esq.,  of  Bellevue,  co.  Wexford. 

Roche,  Stephen,  br.  of  above  (Nov.  25,  1847 -Xmas.  1848) 
(Aug.  1830 -Feb.  1851);  died  April  i,  1853. 

Roche,  Stephen  Redington,  eldest  son  of  Thomas  Redington 
Roche,  Esq.  (Jan.  14,  1871  -  Mid.  1879). 

Roche,   Anthony   Redington,    br.    of  above   (Sep.  12,  1873- 

Mid.  1880). 
Roche,  Thomas   Redington.   br.   of  above  (Sep.    1875 -Jan. 

1879). 


100  APPENDIX. 

Roche,  Charles  Redington,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  12,  1878 -Mid. 
1881)  ;  Matric.  Trin.  Coll.,  Dub.  ;  Honours  in  Logic  :  Senior  Exhi- 
bition ;  ist  in  Classics,  1887. 

Roche,  George  Redington,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  1880 -Mid. 
1881). 

Rochester,  William  (Aug.  19,  1845 -Mid.  1846). 

Rochester,  George,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  1846 -Mid.  1847). 

Roda,  Francis  (Oct.  9,  1874 -June  1875). 

Rodgett,  Paul  (Aug.  9,  1837  -  Mid    1838)  ;  died  1838. 

Rodmell,  J.  T.  (Oct.  2,  1851  -Jan.  1855)  (in  Divinity). 

Rodriguez,  Jose  Epiphanio  (Aug.  1865  -Jan.  1872). 

Rodway,  George  (Jan.  31,  1840 -Mid.  1840). 

Rodway,  William  (Aug.  2,  1849  -  Mid.  1852). 

Rodway,  Charles  (Aug.  2,  1849 -March  1852) ;  died  Aug.  10, 

1873- 

Rogers,  James  (Nov.  6,  1818- June  1825). 
Rolfe,  Frederick  (Oct.  29,  1887  -  Mid.  1888)  (in  Divinity). 
Ronayne,  Dominic  (Sep.  17,  1838  -  Nov.  1838). 
Rooman,  Jules  (Sep.  30,  1886  -  Mid.  1887). 
Rorke,  Edward  (April  27,  1812  -April  1815). 
Roskell,  James  P.  (Aug.  5,  1820-  Dec.  1823). 
Roskell,  George  (Aug.  20,  1821  -Mid.  1826). 
Roskell,  Joseph  (Sep.  1868 -Mid.  1872). 
Ross,  Everard  (Aug.  10,  1856 -Nov.  1856). 
Roupe,  William  (Sep.  16,  1830 -Mid.  1833). 
Rowe,  Adrian  (Sep.  19,  1882 -Mid.  1885). 
Rowe,  James,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  19,  1882  -Mid.  1885). 
Rowley,  Thomas  (Jan.  23,  i832-Xmas.  1833). 
Rowley,  John,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  23,  1832  -  March  1834). 
Rowson,  Samuel  (1863 -March  1864)  (in  Divinity). 
Russell,  Thomas  (June  17,  1812 -June  1816). 
Russell,  William,  br.  of  above  (June  17,  1812 -Mid.  1813). 
Russell,  Michael  (Sep.  19,  1826  -  Mid.  1828). 

Ryan,  Daniel,  of  Inch,  eldest  son  of  George  Ryan,  Esq.,  of 
Inch  (Aug.  23,  i^oi  -  March  1804)  ;  died  April  6,  1831. 

Ryan,  Philip,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  23,  1801 -March  1804); 
died  March  18,  1830. 


APPENDIX.  101 

Ryan,  George,  br.  of  above,  J.P.,  D.L.,  High  Sheriff  for 
Tipperary  1851  (Aug.  23,  1801 -June  1807);  m.  Catherine,  d.  of 
Captain  Edward  Whyte,  R.N.;  died  Sep.  4,  1875. 

Ryan,  John,  br.  of  above  (June  7,  1804  -Xmas.  1807)  ;  m. 
Anna  Elizabeth,  d.  of  Thomas  Lenigan,  Esq.  ;  died  in  1863. 

Ryan,  Francis  (Nov.  3,  1807 -June  1809). 

Ryan,  John,  of  Scarteen  (Dec.  20, •  1815  -Sep.  1822);  m. 
Alice  O'Shea  ;  died  May  16,  1863. 

Ryan,  Thaddeus,  eldest  son  of  John  Ryan,  Esq.,  of  Scarteen 
(Aug.  31,  1849 -Xmas.  1854)  ;  Lieut.-Col.  Royal  Artillery;  Cornet, 
Dec.  12,  1856;  Lieut.,  April  27,  1858;  Captain,  March  24,  1865; 
Major,  Sep.  r,  1873 ;  Lieut.-Col.,  July  i,  1881  ;  Colonel,  July  1, 1885  ; 
served  at  the  siege  and  capture  of  Delhi  in  1857,  present  at  the 
actions  of  Narnoul  Gungaree,  Puttialee,  and  Mynpooree  ;  also  served 
in  the  Oude  Campaign  of  1858  -  59 ;  Medal  with  Clasp  ;  Public 
Man,  Jan.  -Aug.  1853,  and  Aug.  1854 -Jan.  1855  ;  Good  Conduct 
Medal,  1854  ;  m.  Gwendaline,  d.  of  Sir  James  Talbot  Power,  Bart. 

Ryan,    John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.   19,  1851  -  Mid.  1855),  m. 

Miss  O'Shea. 

Ryan,  William,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  19,  1851  -  Mid.  1856). 
Ryan,  Clement,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  25,  1858 -Mid.  1862). 
Ryan,  Richard,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  25,  1858  -Xmas.  1864). 

Ryan,  Charles,  M.D.,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1865  -  Mid.  1868); 
Public  Man,  Feb.  -July,  1868  ;  m.,  June  9,  1880,  Mary,  d.  of  Henry 
Watson  Parker,  Esq. 

Ryan,k4Walter,  M.D.,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  10,  1866 -Mid.  1871); 

Public  Man,  Sep.  -  Dec.  1870. 
Ryan,  John  J.,  eldest  son  of  Colonel  Ryan   (Sep.  19,  1882  - 

Mid.  1888)  ;  Public  Man,  June  -  Mid.  1887 ;  Good  Conduct  Medal 

1888. 

Ryan,  James,  son  of  Colonel  Ryan  (Jan.  27,  1885  -     ). 
Ryan,  Thaddeus,  son  of  Colonel  Ryan  (Sep.  15,  1885  -     ). 

Ryan,  John  J.,  son  of  John  Ryan,  Esq.  (Sep.  18,  1883  -  Mid. 

1884). 

Ryley,  Edward  (Aug.  12,  185 7 -Mid.  1859). 
Ryley,  George,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  12,  1857  -Mid.  1859). 
Sadler,  John  (April  22,  1834 -Jan.  1837). 

Saldanha,  Alexander,  nephew  of  the  J|uke  of  Saldanha  (Oct. 
24,  1865  -  Mid.  1868)  ;  died  June  20,  1877. 


102  APPENDIX. 

Salvin,  Bryan  (Sep.  5,  1859 -Mid.  1863),  son  of  Marmaduke 
Charles  Salvin,  Esq.,  of  Burn  Hall  ;  late  Lieut.  Royal  Monmouth 
Militia. 

Salvin,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (April  13,  1859 -Mid.  1866). 
Sampson,  George  (Sep.  14,  1855 -Mid.  1858). 
Sampson,  James  (Sep.  19,  1857  -Mid.  1859). 
Sampson,  Charles,  br,  of  above  (Sep.  19,  1857  -  Oct.  1858). 
Sanchez,  Joseph  (Jan.  20,  1877 -March  1877). 
Sanchez,  Philip,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  20,  1877 -Mid.  1878). 
Sanchez,  Philip  (Feb.  3,  1885  -Xmas.  1886). 
Sanjurgio,  Francis  (Jan.  23,  1842 -Nov.  1844). 
Saunders,  George  (Jan.  1824 -Mid.  1825). 
Saunders,  John  Scott  (March  25,  1811  -Dec.  1815). 
Scannell,  Peter  (May  13,  1869- April  1870)  (in  Divinity). 
Scott,  T.  A.  (Sep.  30,  1 868 -Nov.  1868)  (in  Divinity). 

Scrope,  Henry  John,  B.A.  (Oct.  10,  1845 -Oct.  1847);  Matric. 

Lond.  Univ.,  1845  ;  B.A.,  1847  ;  died  Dec.  n,  1853. 
Scully,  Vincent,  of   Mantle    Hill,   Tipperary,  son   of  Denys 

Scully,  Esq.,  b.  1810  (May  I,  1824- Mid.  1828)  ;  Barrister-at-Law ; 

Q.C.  ;  M.P.  co.  Cork,  1852-57,  and  1859-65  ;  m.  Susan,  d.  of  John 

Grogan,  Esq.  ;  died  June  4,  1871. 

Scully,  James,  elder  br.  of  above  (Aug.  1825 -Mid.  1828); 
died  Nov.  26,  1842. 

Scully,  Jeremiah  (Sep.  13,  182 6 -Nov.  1827). 

Scully,   Vincent,  J.P.,   D.L.,  son  of  Vincent  Scully,  Esq.,  of 

Mantle  Hill,  b.  1846  (Sep.  21,  1858  -  Mid.  1863)  ;  High  Sheriff,  1871  ; 

m.  Emma  Eliza,  daughter  of  Pierce  Marcus  Barron,  Esq. 

Scully,  Denys,  son  of  above  (Jan.  26,  1885  -Xmas.  1886). 

Seel,  Charles  Molyneux  (Sep.  9,  1870 -Xmas.  1870). 

Sen,  Michael  (April  12,  1863 -Mid.  1863). 

Segrave,    William,    son  of  Henry  Segrave,  Esq.,    of  Cabra 

(May  30,  1839  -  Mid.  1843)  >  late  Capt.  7ist  Foot. 
Segrave,  Thomas,  br.  of  above  (May  30,  1839 -Mid.  1843); 

late  Capt.  I4th  Foot  ;  m.  Louisa  Mary,  d.  of  William  Buckley,  Esq. 
Segrave,    Edward,    son  of  Henry  Segrave,    Esq.,   of  Cabra 
(May  6,  1873  -  Xmas.  1874)  ;  died  Sep.  3,  1877. 

Segrave,  Charles,  br^  of  above  (Sep.  23,  1882  -July  1884). 

Selby,  Thomas,  of  Biddlestone,  b.  1780  (June  13,  1795  -  Dec. 
1800)  ;  died  Jan.  30,  1818. 


APPENDIX.  103 

Selby,  Ralph  (June  13,  1795  -Dec.  l8o°)-     R-LP- 

Selby,  Edward  (June  13,  1795-June  1801);  died  Aug.  i,  1818. 

Selby,  Walter  (Aug.  24,    1797 -Sep.  1803);  m.  Alicia,  d.  of 

Thomas  Swarbreck,  Esq.  ;  died  Feb.  23,  1833. 
Selby,   Richard  (Sep.   18,    1802 -June  1806);    died   Nov.    i, 

1815. 

[  The  five  above  mentioned  were  sons  of  Thomas  Selby,  Esq.,  of 
Biddlestone,  and  Catherine,   only  d.  and  heiress  of  Ralph  Hodgson, 
Esq.,  of  Linly  Green,  co.  Durham.] 
Selby,  Albert,  b.  1789  (Sep.  7,  1805- June  1806);  died  July  24, 

1806. 

Selby,  Walter  Charles,  son  of  Walter  Selby,  Esq.,  of  Biddle- 
stone, b.  1858  (April  21,  1870  -  Xmas.  1874). 
Selby,  Thomas  Cyril,  br.  of  above   (April  21,   1870 -Xmas. 

1874). 

Selby,  Reginald,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  8,  1879 -Xmas.  1887). 
Sell,  John  (Sep.  1834 -Mid.  1835). 
Sergeant,  Edward  (May  17,  1814  -  June  1817). 
Sergeant,  Thomas,  br.  of  above  (May  17,  1814  -  June  1817). 
Shannon,  Patrick  (Aug.  13,  1822  -June  1825). 
Shannon,  Pierce,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  13,  1822  -  June  1827). 
Shannon,  Thomas  (Aug.  9,  1840-  Sep.  1844). 
Shannon,  Edward  (April  20,  1858  -  Mid.  1860). 
Sharpies,    Henry  (Feb.  3,  1824  -  Mid.    1825);  died  Dec.  17, 

1874. 

Sharpies,  George  (Aug.  27,  1838  -  Mid.  1841). 
Sharpies,  James  (Aug.  13,  1839 -Feb.  1842). 
Sharpies,  George,  son  of  Henry  Sharpies,  Esq.  (Feb.  5,  1862  - 

Xmas.  1864) ;  m.  Frances  Salvin  ;  died  April  gth,  1885. 

Shaw,  Lewis  (a  short  time  in  1799). 

Shaw,  St.  Michael  (Jan.  1824  -  Mid.  1828)  (in  Divinity) 

Shea,  John  (Aug.  17,  1808  -  June  1815). 

Sheath,  Alfred  (June  1844  -Xmas.  1848). 

Shee,    Martin  Archer,  grandson  of  Sir  Martin  Archer  Shee, 
President  of  the  Royal  Academy  (April  5,  1859  -  Mid.  1862). 

Sheehan,  Peter  (Sep.  24,  1883-        ). 

Sheehy,  Bryan  (Aug.  16,  1838 -April  18*41). 

Sheehy,  Roger,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  16,  1838 -Oct.  1840). 


x°4  APPENDIX. 

Shell,  Stephen    Woulfe,    son   of   Gen.  Sir  Justin  Sheil  (Sep. 

1871  -  April  1874)  ;  died  April  8,  1882. 
Shell,   Richard,   br.   of  above    (Sep.    10,    1872 -Mid.    1876); 

Matric.  Lend.  Univ.  1876. 

Shepard,  Thomas  (May  20,  1874- Mid.  1875)  (Jan.  1876  - 
Mid.  1878). 

Shepard,  William,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1876  -  Xmas.  1881). 
Shepperley,  William  (Nov.  23,  1830 -Xmas.  1883). 
Sheridan,  James  (Jan  25,  1856- Xmas.  1860).     R.I.P. 
Sheridan,  Joseph,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  25,  1856 -Xmas.  1860) 
(1862  -  1865)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1865  ;  died  July  23,  1869. 

Sheridan,  Thomas  (Sep.  5,  1857 -Xmas.  1860)  (Sep.  1862- 
Mid.  1867). 

[These  three  were  sons  of  Dr.  Sheridan,  Civil  Surgeon,  of 
Beerbhoom,  India.] 

Sherlock,  John  (Sep.  3,  1833 -Mid.  1836). 

Sherlock,  Thomas  (Aug.  26,  1835 -Mid.  1838);  died  Aug.  9, 
1838. 

Sherman,  Francis  (July  23,  1813  -June  1816). 
Shine.  Denys,  vide  Lavvlor. 

Shine,  Martin,  M.D.,  br.  of  Denys  Shine  Lawlor  (Sep.  4, 
1825  -  April  1831)  ;  died  Dec.  8,  1878. 

Shoolbred,  James  Nelson,  B.A.  (Jan.  1846 -Oct.  1855); 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1853  ;  B  A.  1855  ;  M.  Inst.  C.E. 

Shoolbred,  William,  br.  of  above  (Nov.  21,  1854 -Nov.  1856). 
Shuttleworth,  George  (April  29,  i8io-June  1811). 
Shuttleworth,  Edward  (Aug.  n,  1820 -July,  1822), 

Shuttleworth,  John  Joseph  (May  1824 -Nov.  1827);  died 
May  4,  1878. 

Shuttleworth,  George  (Jan.  21,  1840 -July  1842). 

Sibeth,  Charles  Joseph,  son  of  Werner  Sibeth,  Esq.  (Aug.  16, 
1859-  Mid.  1865),  m.  Monica,  d.  of  Henry  Sharpies,  Esq.)  ;  Matric. 
Lond.  Univ.,  1865. 

Sibeth,  Albert,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  15,  1863 -Xmas.  1868). 

Sibeth,  Theodore,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1864 -Xmas.  1868),  m. 
Dorothy,  d.  of  Hon.  Henry  Petre. 

Silva,  Antonio  (Aug.  25,  1854 -May  1857). 

Silva,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  16,  1855 -Mid.  1858). 

Silva,  Henry  (Sep.  17,  1883. Mid.  1884). 


APPENDIX.  105 

Silvertop,  Henry,  of  Minster  Acres,  son  of  Henry  Charles 
Silvertop  (Englefield),  b.  1853  (Sep.  1864-  Mid.  1872),  m.  Rachel 
Mary,  d.  of  Alexander  McDonnell,  of  Kilmore. 

Simkiss,  Thomas  Stonor,  Rev.  (Aug.  17,  1838 -Mid.  1839) 
(Aug.  1846 -June  1853)  ;  Procurator,  Oct.  i84g-June  1853;  died 
April  18,  1884. 

Simmonds,  Robert  (Oct.  26,  1860 -Xmas.  i$6o). 
Simpson,  William  (Dec.  30,  1845  -left  shortly  afterwards). 

Simpson,    James  (Sep.  u,  1863 -Xmas.  1866)  ;  Lieut.  R.N. ; 

died  Feb.  8,  1879. 
Skerrett,  William,  of  Finavara,  J.P.,  Capt.  36th  Regt;  m.  Helena, 

d.  of  John  Reilly,  Esq.  (Aug.  20,  1857  -  Xtr.as.  1859)  ;  Public  Man, 

Feb.  to  Aug.  1859  ;  died  June  10,  1878. 

Skerrett,  John,  J.P.,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  20,  1857  -  Mid.  1860)  ; 
died  June  19,  1881. 

Skinner,  William  (Oct.  14,  1856  -  Mid.  1859). 

Skinner,  Edward  (Aug.   18,   1857  -  Feb.   1859)  (Aug.    1860- 

Mid.  1862). 

Slade,  Harry,  son  of  Sir  Frederick  William  Slade,  Bart.  (Aug. 
8,  1858  -  May  1859)  ;  m.  Evelyn,  d.  of  Captain  Frederick  Sayer. 

Slade,  Marcus,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  n,  1858  -  Xmas.  1859). 
Slaughter,  Henry  (Aug  19,  i8i3-Mid.  1820);  died  Mar.  3,  1826. 
Slaughter,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  19.  1813 -Mid.  1819); 

m.  Frances,  d.  of  Sir  Edward  Mostyn,  Bart,  a  Solicitor  in 
London,  head  of  the  late  firm  of  Cullington  and  Slaughter  ;  died 
July  24th,  1862. 

Slaughter,  Basil,  br.    of  above  ( Sep.  18,  i8i8-June   1823). 
Slaughter,  William,  son  of  Edward  Slaughter,  Esq.  (Aug.  10, 
1857  -  Xmas.  1864)  ;  m.  Teresa,  d.  of  H.  Coverdale,  Esq. 

Slaughter,  Edward  (Sep.  17,  1883  -  Xmas.  1885.) 

Slaughter,  William  (Sep.  17,  1883  -  Xmas.  1884)  (Sep. 
1886  -  ) 

Slaughter,  Reginald  (April  9,  1887  -     ) 

[The  three  last  mentioned  are  sons  of  William  Slaughter,  Esq.] 

Smeeton,  Ernest  (Feb.  2,  1885 -Xmas.  1885). 
Smelter,  George  (Aug.  9,  1823 -Feb.  1830). 

Smith,   Robert  (July   15,    1838 -Mid.    1843):    died  Jan.    28, 

1877. 

Smith,  Frederick  (a  short  time  in  184-)  (in  Divinity). 
Smith,  John  (Sep.  n,  1847  -Mid.  1848). 


106  APPENDIX. 

Smith,  Charles  (Aug.  28,  1856-001.  1857). 
Smith,  Walter  (Feb.  1860 -Mid.  1863). 

Smith,    Joseph    (1873),    Mus-    Doc.    of    Dublin    University, 

Examiner  in  Music  to  the  Royal  University  of  Ireland. 
Smith,  Cecil  (Oct.  6,  1879- April  1881). 
Smith,  Robert  (Sep.  12,  1881  -  March  1882). 

Smithwick,  Edward  (Oct.  5,  1855 -Mid.  1856);   Public  Man 
from  April  to  June,  1856. 

Smithwick,  Daniel  (Oct.  5,  1855  -  Mid.  1857) ;  died  Oct.  19, 
1883. 

Smyth,  James,   son  of  James  Smyth,   Esq.,   of  Masonbrook 
(March  27,  1856  -  Feb.  1859)  ;  died  ik-c.  5,  1876. 

Smyth,  Anthony,  br.  of  above  (March  27    1856    April  1858); 
late  Capt.  28th  Foot. 

Smyth,   Robert,  son  of  John  Smyth,   Esq.,   of  Masonbrook 
(May  31,  1 88 1  -  Xmas.  1884). 

Sollom,  Francis  (March  2,  185 2 -Mid.  1852). 

Sollom,  Bertram,  son  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1877  -Xmas.  1879). 

Sollom,  Eustace  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1877  -  Xmas. 
1880) ;  died  Oct.  2,  1883. 

Sollom,  Wilfrid,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  14,  1880 -Mid.  1887). 
Sollom,  Vincent,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  1882  -  Mid.  1886). 

Sollom,  Raymond,  br.  of  above  (Sep.    18,    1882 -Mid.  1883) 
(Jan.  1884  -  Mid.  1886). 

Sollom,  Cuthbert,  br.  of  above  (May  6,  1885  -Mid.  1887). 
Somellera,  John  (Dec.  4,  1858 -Oct.  1859). 
Somellera,  Gabriel  Negrete  de  (June  5,  1885-    ). 
Somellera,  Pedro  Negrete  de,  br.  of  above  (June  5,  1885-     ). 
Somellera,  Alfonso  Negrete  de,  br.  of  above  (June  5,  1885  -    ). 
Sotolongo,  Peter  (Aug.  23,  1859 -Sep.  1860). 
Sparkes,  —  (a  short  time  in  1843)  (in  Divinity). 
Spears,  Robert,  (March  31,  1836-  Mid.  1836;. 
Spencer,  Joseph  (Oct.  9,  1874 -Mid.  1877). 
Spicer,  John  (Sep.  i,  i8i8-Mid.  1822). 

Spink,  Charles  A.  (Feb.  1834 -Xmas.  1840);    died   Dec.    24, 

1885. 

Standish,  Charles  (Sep.   18,   1840 -Xmas.   1842);  youngest 
son  of  Charles  Standish,  Esq.,  of  Standish. 


APPENDIX.  107 

Stanfield,  John  (Aug.  14,  1847 -Dec.  1849). 

Stapleton,  Edward  (Aug.  n,  1829 -Mid.  1836);  a  Solicitor 
in  Dublin  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1836. 

Stapleton,  Edward,  son  of  above  (Sep.  17,  1877  -  Mid.  1883. 

Starkie,    Walter    Fitzwilliam,    B.A.,    (Sep.    n,    1868 -Mid. 

1871);  Gold  Medallist  for  Oratory  in  the  Historical  Society; 
Gold  Medallist  for  Oratory  in  the  Philosophical  Society  ;  B.A.  and 
Gold  Medallist  as  Senior  Moderator,  Trin.  Coll.,  Dub.,  1876.  ;  died 
Dec.  9,  1878. 

Starkie,  Robert,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1868- Mid.  1871). 
Starkie,  Reginald,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1876 -Mid.  1877). 
Staunton,  Michael  (Sep.  23,  1843 -Mid.  1844). 
Steele,  John  (Jan.  25,  1833 -Mid.  1833). 

Stephens,  Francis  (April  16,   1849  -  Xmas.  1850);  a  Queen's 
Messenger. 

Stevens,  James  (Jan.  23,  1873 -April,  1876). 
Stevens,  William  (Jan.  17,  i88i-Mid.  1884). 

Stevens,  Thomas,  Rev.  (1865)  ;  died  April  14,  1869  (in 
Deacon's  Orders). 

Steward,  Alfred  (Dec.  1845  .  Mid.  1848). 

Steward,  Frederick  (Dec.  1845 -March  1851). 

Steward,  Francis  (Aug.  12,  1847 -Mid.  1853). 

Stewart,  William  (Aug.  20,  1841 -Xmas.  1845);  died  Jan.  26, 

1854. 
St.  George,  Arthur,  br.  of  Sir  John  St.  George,  Bart.  (Sep.  8, 

1866 -Mid.  1871);    Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,   1871  ;  Public  Man.,  Sep. 

1869  to  May  1870,  and  from  May  to  July,  1871. 

St.  George,  Herbert  (March  27,  i86i-Mid.  1864). 
Stokes,  Charles  (Feb.  17,  1850-  Mid.  1852). 

Stonor,  Alban,  son  of  Lieut. -Colonel  Charles  Stonor  (Aug.  12, 
1829  -  Mid.  1833)  ;  m.  Eliza,  d.  of  R.  Truro,  of  Hobart  Town  ;  died 
March  15,  1866. 

Stonor,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  7,  1831  -  Mid.  1832) ; 
County  Court  Judge  ;  m.  Mary  Anne,  d.  of  John  Kirsopp,  Esq. 

Stonor,  Charles  Joseph,  son  of  Charles  Henry  Stonor, 
Esq.,  of  Lostock,  and  nephew  of  Lord  Camoys  (Aug.  16.  1851  -  Mid. 
1858)  ;  m.  Maude,  d.  of  Charles  Noel  Welman,  Esq.;  Public  Man 
Aug.  1857  to  Aug.  1858. 

Stonor,  Edmund  (Sep.  17,  1877  -  Mid.  1883). 
Stonor,  Maurice  (Sep.  9,  1878 -April  1886). 


108  APPENDIX. 

Stonor,  Oswald  (Sep.  18,  1883-    ). 

[  The  three  last  mehtioned  are  sons  of  Charles  Joseph  Stonor.  Esq. j 
Strickland,  Manuel  (Jan.  14,  1829 -Mid.  1831). 
Strickland,  Walter,  J.P.,  D.L.,  son  of  Thomas  Strickland,  Esq., 

of  Sizergh  Castle,  b.  1825  (Sep.  i8:  1840  -  Mid.  1843)  :  m-  Rosetta 
Emmeline,  d.  of  Charles  Medex,  Esq. 

Strickland,  Henry  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  18,  1840 -Mid. 

1843)  ;  Lieut.  6gth  Foot  ;  died  Sep.  16,  1852,  at  Barbadoes. 
Strickland,  Gerard,  v.  Delia  Catena. 

Strickland,  Paul,  br.  of  the  Count  della  Catena  (Jan.  24, 
1874- July  1875);  son  of  Capt.  Walter  Strickland,  R.N. 

Stritch,  Bartholomew  (June  20,  1804 -Dec.  1805). 

Styche,  Edward  (Sep.  5,  1840 -Mid.  1846). 

Sugrue,  James  Marmaduke  (Sep.  29,  1880 -March  1886); 
Public  Man,  Jan.  -  Mid.  1885  ;  Lieut.  4th  Battalion  Royal  Munster 
Fusiliers. 

Sugrue,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  21,  1881  -  Mid.  1885). 
Sugrue,  John,  cousin  of  above  (Sep.  n,  1884-     ). 
Sullivan,  William  (Sep.  8,  1805  -Sep.  1807). 
Sullivan,  Philip  (Sep.  8,  1805  -  March  1808). 
Sullivan,  John  (Aug.  12,  1833 -Nov.  1838). 
Sullivan,  Richard  (Sep.  20,  1887  -    ). 
Sullivan,  John  (Sep.  20,  1887-    ). 

[The  two  last  mentioned  are  great-grandsons  of  Daniel  O'Connell, 
Esq.,  M.P.] 

Sumner,  Francis  (Oct.  30,  1884 -Dec.  1887). 
Sumner,  Alfred  (Jan.  21,  1886 -Xmas.  1887). 
Sumner,  George  (Sep.  14,  1886-    ). 
Sumner,  Ernest  (Jan.  23,  1888-    ). 

[These  four  are  sons  of  F.  J.  Sumner,  Esq  ,  of  Park  Hall,  Derbyshire.] 

Swinburne,  Thomas  (Feb.  15,  1806 -March  1811). 
Taaffe,  Edmund  (Feb.  9,  1816-  March  1817). 
Taaffe,  Christopher  (Feb.  9,  1816  -  March  1817). 

Talbot,  Matthew,  son  of  James  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Knockmullen, 
and  nephew  of  John  Hyacinth  Talbot,  Esq.,  of  Ballytrent  (Sep.  19. 
1841  -  Mid.  1843)  ;  died  March  20,  1869. 

Talbot,  John  Reginald,  J.P.,  son  of  John  Reginald  Talbot,  Esq., 
of  Rhode  Hill,  and  grand-nephew  of  Lord  Talbot  of  Malahide,  3rd. 
Baron,  b.  1861  (Jan  14,  1874  -  Xmas.  1879)  ;  2nd  \V.  Yorkshire 
Militia  ;  m.  Josephine,  d.  of  the  Due  de  Stacpoole. 


APPENDIX.  lOQ 

Talbot,  Reginald,  br.  of  above  (April  8,  1885  -     ). 
Taschereau,  Adolphus  (April  30,  1856  -  May  1856). 
Tasker,  John  (May  16,  1807 -July  1807). 
Taunton,  John   (Oct.   7,   1822  -  Dec.  1822);  died  April  23, 

1823. 

Taylor,  John  (Aug.  1828  -  Xmas.  1829). 
Taylor,  (March  6,  1861  -  Mid.  1861)  (in  Divinity). 

Teeling,  George,  nephew  of  Lord  O'Hagan  (Sep  28,   1870- 

Mid.  1874)  (in  Divinity). 

Teevan,  George  (Jan.  30,  1856 -Mid.  1856). 

Teevan,  John  (Jan.  30,  1856  -  Mid.  1856). 

Teevan,  Alfred  (Jan.  31,  1856  -  Xmas.  1857). 

Teevan,  Henry  (Jan.  31,  1856 -Mid.  1858). 

Tegart,  Arthur  (Nov.  9,  1803 -Jan.  1804). 

Tegart,  Edward  (Aug.  8,  1805  -  Dec.  1812). 

Tegart,  George  (May  6,  1815  -Aug.  1817). 

Tegart,  Arthur  (Aug.  7,  1849 -Mid.  1851). 

Tegart,  Frederick  (April  8,  1850 -Mid.  1853). 

Telford,  Benjamin,  br.  of  Rev.  Thomas  Telford  (Nov.  9,  1841  - 

Mid.  1846). 
Tempest,  Henry  Arthur,   son  of  Sir  Charles  Tempest,  Bart. 

(Sep.  i,  1875 -Mid.  1879). 
Therry,  George  Canning,  son  of  Judge  Therry  (May  27,  1849- 

Feb.  1851),  late  Lieut.-Col.  io5th  Regiment;  died  July  I3th,  1884. 
Thompson,  Edward  (April  29,  1878 -Mid.  1882). 
Thompson,  James    (April   29,    1878 -Xmas.  1883)  (Jan.  26, 

1885-     ). 
Thompson,  Henry  (Sep.  1882  -     ). 

[  Sons  of  Edward  Thompson,  Esq.,  of  Mold.J 

Thompson,  Jonathan,  Rev.  (Oct.  13,  1885  -  )  (in  Holy 
Orders. 

Thorpe,  Charles  (Jan.  22,  1804 -June  1805). 
Throckmorton,  Nicholas,  br.  of  Sir  Robert  Throckmorton, 

8th  Baronet  (Aug.  30,  1809- June  1818)  ;  died  Jan.  29,  1848). 

Throckmorton,  John  Jarvis,  br.  of  Sir  Robert  Throckmorton, 
Bart.  (Aug.  13,  1821  -  Dec.  1824)  ;  died  May  28,  1853. 

Throckmorton,  Robert  Courtenay,  son  of  Sir  Robert  Throck- 
morton, Bart.  (March  27,  1844-  April  1848)  ;  died  Dec.  14,  1853. 

'5 


110  APPKNDIX. 

Throckmorton,   Herbert,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  28,  1860 -Mid. 

1861)  !  died  at  Estcourt.  Natal,  March  19.  1871. 
Thunder,  Andrew  (Jan.  24,  1839 -Mid.  1841). 
Thunder,  Michael  (Aug.  31,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 

Tichborne,  Robert,  son  of  Sir  Henry  Tichborne,  7th  Baronet, 
b.  1792  (Jan.  29, 1805  -June  1807)  ;  m.  Rebecca,  d.  of  A.  F.  Nunez, 
Esq. ;  died  Nov.  3,  1849. 

Timmins,  Francis  (Sep.  5,  1866  -  for  a  short  time). 
Tonnerre,  Charles  (Sep.   1868  -  Mid.   1869);  Matric.  Lond. 

Univ.  1869. 

Tonnerre,  Louis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  1868 -Mid.  1869). 
Toovey,  Edward  (Aug.  i,  1846 -Sep.  1848). 
Topham,  Joseph  Bell  (Aug.  11,  1858 -Mid.  1861). 
Tordiffe,  William  (Oct.  5,  1857 -Xmas.  1857). 
Tordiffe,  Edward,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  5,  185  7 -Xmas.  1857). 
Tordiffe,  Evan,  br.  of  above  (Oct.  5,  1857  -Xmas.  1857). 
Torres,  John  (Aug.  16,  1859 -Mid.  1860). 
Torres,  John  (July  8,  1882  -  left  shortly  after). 
Tovar,  Claudio  (Sep.  21,  1865 -Mid.  1868). 

Towneley,  Charles,  son  of  Peregrine  Towneley,  Esq.  (Aug.  1 2, 
1817 -Mid.  1823),  J.P.,  DL.,  F.R.S.,  F.S.A.  ;  a  Trustee  of  the 
British  Museum  ;  M.P.  for  Sligo ;  High  Sheriff  of  Lancashire  in 
1857  ;  Hon.  Col.  5th  Royal  Lane.  Militia  ;  m.  Lady  Caroline,  d.  of 
3rd  Earl  of  Sefton  ;  died  Nov.  4.  1876. 

Towneley,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  25,  i8i8-Xmas.  1824), 
D.L. ;  Lieut.-Col.  5th  Royal  Lancashire  Militia  :  M.P.  for  Beverley  ; 
m.  Lucy  Ellen,  d.  of  Sir  Henry  Tichborne,  8th  Baronet  ;  died  Feb. 
21,  1878. 

Tozer,  Edward,  son  of  J.  H.  Tozer,  Esq.,  of  Teignmouth 
(April  8,  1877  -  Mid.  1880). 

Trafford,  Henry  (Aug.  10,  1802  -  March  1804). 
Trafford,  Edmund  (Aug.  14,  1804- June  1805). 
Trafford,  William,  J.P.  (Aug.  16,  1832  -  May  1841);  late 

Major  4th  Royal  Lancashire  Militia  ;  assumed  the  name  of  De  Trafford 
in  1882. 

Trafford,    Cuthbert     (de)     (Jan.     16,     1877  -  Mid.     1880); 

son  of  Major  de  Trafford. 
Trafford,    Humphrey    (de),    br.    of  above    (Sep.    18,    1882- 

Xmas.  1886). 

Trant,  Dominic  (Jan.  14,  1812 -June  1814). 


APPENDIX.  I  I  I 

Trant,  James,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  14,  1812  -Aug.  1812). 

Trant,  Dominic  (Nov.  6,  1852  -  Xmas.  1855). 

Trapani,  Henry  (Jan.  29,  i874-Xmas.  1875),  son  of  G.  Trapani, 

LL.D.,  C.M-G.,  of  Malta. 

Trenor,  Frederick  (Aug.  n,  1844 -Mid.  1846). 
Trenor,  Henry,  bn  of  above  (Aug.  ir,  1844 -Mid.  1846). 
Truxillo,  Peter  (Sep.  2,  1835 -Oct.  1837). 
Tuer,  Benjamin  (May  15,  i88i-May  16,  1881)  (in  Divinity). 
Turnbuil,  Thomas  (April  i,  1843 -Dec.  1848). 
Turner,  Charles  (Aug.  13,  1839 -Mid.  1846). 
Turner,  Henry  (Nov.  10,  1847  -March  1849). 
Turner,  Abraham  (Nov.  10,  1847 -Mid.  1848). 
Turville,   George,  br.  of  Sir  Francis  Fortescue  Turville  (Aug. 

14,  1841  -  Xmas.  1852)  ;  died  at  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  Jan.  29, 

I859- 
Tussaud,  Francis  (Jan.  13,  1842 -Mid.  1843);  died  March  2, 

1858. 

Udall,  William  (Sep.  14,  1875  -Mid.  l88l)« 
Ullathorne,  Alfred  (Jan.  16,  1843 -May  1845), 
Ullathorne,  Frederick,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  16,1843  -  Dec.  1844). 
Ullathorne,  Oscar,  br.  of  above  (Jan,  16,  1843 -May  l845)- 
Ulloa,  Nicholas  (Sep.  23,  18^7- April  1848). 
Ulloa,  Pedro,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  23,  1847 -March  1848). 
Underbill,  John  (Aug.  22,  1798 -June  1805). 
Underbill,  James  (Aug.  22,  1799 -June  1806). 
Vallely,  James  (Sep.  1844 -Xmas.  1844). 
Van  Grutten,  Lucien  (Oct.  29,  1877  -Xmas.  1880). 
Vanzeller,  Joachim  (Aug.  21,  i8io-June  1811). 
Vanzeller,  Thomas  (Aug.  21,  i8io-July  1814). 
Vanzeller,  William  (Aug.  21,  1810-  July  1814) ;  died  April  2, 

1826. 
Vanzeller,  Theodore  (Aug.  21,  1810- June  1816). 

Vanzeller,   Peter  (Aug.  21,  i8io-June  1816);  died  Feb.  15, 

1826. 
Vanzeller,  James  (Oct.  12,  1813 -June  1820);  died  Nov.  18, 

1823. 

Vanzeller,  Frederic  (Oct.  12,  1813 -June  1820). 
Vanzeller,  Charles  (Jan.  29,  1822 -June  1824). 


112  APPENDIX. 

Vanzeller,  Anthony,  June  5,  1874 -July  12,  1874). 

Vaughan,  Francis  B.,  of  Courtfield,  son  of  Colonel  Vaughan, 
of  Courtfield,  b.  1844  (June  16,  1864 -Nov.  1865);  Lieut.-Colonel 
Monmouth  Militia  ;  m.  Caroline,  d.  of  Charles  Pope,  Esq. 

Vaughan,  Ernest  Courtenay,  son  of  the  Hon.  George  Vaughan 
and  nephew  of  the  4th  Earl  of  Lisburne,  b.  1832  (Oct.  13,  1841  - 
Mid.  1845)  ;  Major  R.H.A.  ;  died  Oct.  27,  1875. 

Vaughan,   George,   br.   of  above;    b.   1833   (Oct.  4,  1842- 

Mid.    1846)  ;    late  Captain    in    the  Army  ;  m.    Laura  Mary,  d.  of 
Charles  Moore,  Esq. 

Vavasour,  Charles,  br.  of  Sir  Edward  Vavasour,  Bart:  (April 
14,  1826  -  Xmas.  1826)  ;  died  April  21,  1846. 

Vavasour,  George,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  i,  1846 -Xmas.  1846). 

Vavasour,  Oswald,  br.  of  Sir  William  Vavasour,  Bart.  (Feb.  7, 
1860  -  Mid.  1862). 

Vavasour,  Henry,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  10,  1866 -Xmas.  1867). 

Velluti,  Paul  (Aug.  21,  1851  -Xmas  1852). 

Verdon,  Owen  (Sep.  8,  1879 -Xmas.  1882). 

Verdon,  Thomas,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  14,  1880 -Mid.  1883). 

Verhaeghe,  Raymond  (April  30,  1888 -Mid.  1888). 

Visart  de  Bocarme,  Albert  (Oct.  12,  1885  -  April  30,  1888)  ; 

son  of  Count  Visart  de  Bocarme,  Burgomaster  of  Bruges. 

Vistahermosa,  vide  De  la  Vega. 

Wake,  Charles  (Aug.  17,  1861  -Xmas.  1862);  drowned  in  the 

accident  at  Regent's  Park,  Jan.  15,  1867. 
Wakeman,  —  (June  12,  1795 -Jan.  1796). 
Walker,  Francis  (Aug.  1822 -Mid.  1823). 

Walker,  Robert  (Sep.  1846 -Mid.  1848)  (Feb.  1869 -Nov. 
1869),  br.  of  Rev.  H.  M.  Walker,  M.A. 

Walker,  George  (Jan.  18,  1877 -Mid.  1877). 
Wall,  Thomas  (March  20,  1879 -March  1881). 
Wall,  Arthur,  br,  of  above  (Sep.  23,  1880 -Mid.  1883). 
Wall,  Alan,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  23,  1880 -Mid.  1883). 
Wallais,  Mr.  (a  short  time  in  1852)  (in  Divinity). 
Walmsley,  Anthony  (Aug.  17,  1841 -Mid.  1844). 
Walmsley,  John,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  17,  1841 -Xmas.  1846). 
Walsh,  John  (Aug.  8,  i8i6-Jan.  1817). 
Walsh,  Henry  (Jan.  27,  1830 -Nov.  1831). 


APPENDIX.  .  113 

Walsh,  John  (Aug.  28,  1839 -Mid.  1842). 

Walsh,  John  Francis  (Sep.  14,  1874-  Mid.  1880). 

Walsh,  James  Duckett,  br.  of  above  (April  9,  iSyy-Mid.  1881). 

Walsh,  Thomas,  br.  of  above  (April  4,  1883 -April  1884). 

Walsh,  Patrick  Thomas  (Sep.  21,  1880-  1881)  (in  Divinity). 

Wardroper,  Henry  (Sep.  18,  1882  -Xmas.  1882)  (in  Divinity). 

Ware,  Samuel,  Rev   (Oct.  21,  1869 -May  1870)  (in  Divinity). 

Wareing,  John  (Sep.  6,  1836 -Xmas.  1837). 

Wareing,  Charles,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  6,  1836 -Xmas.  1837). 

Warlock,  Charles  (Feb.  9,  1808 -Mid.  1808). 

Warmoll,  Edward C.  Priestley  (1863-64)  died  March  29,  1865. 

Waterworth,  John  (Feb.  23,  1837 -Xmas.  1837). 

Watts,  William  (Jan.  10,  1838 -Xmas    1840). 

Weld,  George,  son  of  George  Weld,  Esq.,  of  Leagrim  Park, 
and  grand-nephew  of  Thomas  Weld,  Esq  ,  of  Lulworth,  who  founded 
Stonyhurst  (Sep.  24,  1833  •  Feb.  1837)  ;  22nd  Regiment  :  died  in 
India,  Nov.  1844. 

Welman,  Charles  Caesar,  J.P.,  eldest  son  of  Charles  Noel 
Welman,  Esq..  of  Norton  Manor,  b.  1840  (Sep.  n,  1856  -  Mid.  1858)  ; 
late  49th  Regiment ;  Major  in  the  Yeomanry  ;  m.  Eugenia,  d.  of 
Charles  Stonor.  Esq. 

Welman,  Arthur  Nelson,  br.  of  above,  b.  1845  (Jan.  22,  1856- 
Xmas.  1859)  (Aug.  1861  -  Mid.  1864)  ;  Capt.  West  Somerset 
Yeomanry  ;  late  Capt.  66th  Regt.  ;  m.  Katharine,  d.  of  Charles 
Strong,  Esq..  of  New  York. 

Welman,  Maurice  Noel,  br.  of  above,  b.  1847  (Jan-  22,  1856- 
Xmas.  1859)  (Aug.  1861  -Mid.  1866);  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.,  1865; 
Good  Conduct  Medal.  1866 ;  died  Jan.  30,  1867,  and  was  buried  at 
Oscott. 

Welman,  Frederick  Tristram,  br.  of  above,  b.  1849  (Aug. 
24,  1856  -  Xmas.  1859)  (Aug.  1861  -  Xmas.  1867)  ;  m.  Mary,  d.  of 
Brisco  Ray,  Esq. 

Welman,  Gerard,  br.  of  above,  b.  1854  (Sep.  10,  1864  - 
April  1872)  ;  Resident  Magistrate  in  the  Straits  Settlements. 

Welman,  Henry  Acton,  br.  of  above,  b.  1856  (Sep.  10,  1864  - 
Mid.  1874)  ;  m.  Mary  d.  of  Sir  Paul  Molesworth,  Bait.,  Matric.  Lond. 
Univ.  1873. 

Welman,  Edward  Charles,  son  of  Major  Charles  Welman 
(Dec.  29,  1874  -  Mid.  1882)  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1882. 

Welman,  Arthur,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  ]88o  -  Mid.  1887)  ; 
Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1887. 


114  APPENDIX. 

Welpley,  James  (Sep.  19,  1856  -  Mid.  1858). 
Wells,  James  (Aug.  n,  1847  -  Mid.  1848). 
Wells,  John  (Aug.  13,  1855  -  Mid.  1856). 

Wheble,  James,  of  Woodley  Lodge  and  Bulmershe  Court 
(March  20,  1795 -Jan.  1800);  m.  Mary,  d.  of  Timothy  O'Brien, 
Esq.  ;  died  July  31,  1840. 

Wheble,  James,  son  of  above,  (Aug.  19,  1830  -  Mid.  1837); 
J.P.  and  D.L.,  High  Sheriff  of  Berks,  1855  ;  late  Capt.  Berks. 
Militia  ;  m.  Lady  Catherine,  d.  of  the  Earl  of  Howth.  K.P. 

Wheble,  Edmund,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  19,  1830 -Mid.  1837); 

m.  Emma  Blount  ;  died  April  20,  1840. 
Wheble,  Robert,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  22,  1833 -Mid.  1840). 

Wheble,  William,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  14,  1833 -Mid.  1842)  : 
Major  7th  Dragoon  Guards  ;  Public  Man,  1841  -  42. 

Wheble,  Daniel  O'Connell,  br.  of  above  (Aug.  21,  1841- 
Mid.  1851);  m.  Eleanor,  d.  of  Robert  Cassidy,  Esq.,  of  Monas- 
terevan  ;  died  May  31,  1865. 

Wheeler,  Luke  (Sep.  i,  1862  -Mid.  1865)  ;  late  of  the  63rd 

Regt.  ;  m.  Margaret,  d.  of  R.  Wilson.  Esq.,  of  Clapham. 
White,  John  (June  7,  1804  -Oct.  1807) ;  died  Nov.  1858. 
White,  Pierce  (Sep.  29,  1836 -Xmas.  1837). 
White,  Jasper  (Oct.  9,  1839  -  April  1843). 
White,  John  (Sep.  3,  1840 -Mid.  1842). 
White,  Robert  (Aug.  4,  1843 -Mid   1844). 
Whiteside,  Edward  (April  28,  1866 -Xmas.  1869). 

Whitgreave,  George,  son  of  Thomas  Henry  Whitgreave, 
Esq.,  of  Moseley  ;  b.  1787  ;  J.P.,  D.L.,  High  Sheriff  1837  (Feb.  28, 
1799  -  Nov  1802)  ;  m..  1st,  Amelia,  d.  of  Benjamin  Hodges,  Esq.  ; 
2ndly,  Mary  Juliana,  d.  of  Admiral  the  Hon.  Sir  John  Talbot  ; 
3rdly,  Mary  Anne,  d.  of  Benjamin  Sandford.  Esq.;  died  Feb.  18. 
1863. 

Whitgreave,  Henry,  J.P.,  D.L..  son  of  above,  b.  1816  (April 
4,  1827 -Mid.  1830)  (Jan.  1823 -March  1834);  m.,  1st,  Henrietta 
Maria,  d.  of  the  late  Hon.  Thomas  Clifford  ;  2nd!y,  Mary,  d.  of 
the  late  Walter  Selby,  Esq.,  of  Biddleston  ;  died  Aug.  13,  1881. 

Whitgreave,  Francis,  of  Burton  Manor,  J.P.,  D.L.,  br.  of 
above,  b.  1819  (Jan.  18,  1840  -  Xmas.  1840)  (March  1842 -July 
1842)  ;  m.  Teresa,  d.  of  Sir  Edward  Mostyn.  Bart. 

Whitgreave,  Thomas,  son  of    Henry  Whitgreave,    Esq.,  b. 

1849  (Aug.  23,  1861  -  Mid.  1866)  ;  died  Jan.  26,  1876. 
Whitgreave,  Thomas,  of  Walsall  (Sep.  13,  i842-Xmas.  1846). 


APPENDIX.  115 

Whitgreave,  Francis,  br.  of  above  (Sep.  13,  1842  -  Mid.  1847). 
Whitty,  Richard  (Sep.  1827  -  1828). 

Whitty,  Frederick  (Sep.  27,  1858  -  Xmas.  1859);  died  March 

31,1877. 

Wilkinson,  James  (Aug.  9,  1826  -  Mid.  1831). 

Wilkinson,  Thomas  Carlos  (May  13,  1844 -Mid.  1852);  died 

Jan.  3,  1886. 

Wilkinson,  Augustine,  Rev.  (Jan.  31,  1881  -Mid.  1882). 
Wilks,  Bartholomew  (April  15,  1795  -April  1796). 
Wilks,  Francis  (Jan.  14,  1846  -  Dec.  1849). 
Willock,  Henry  (Sep.  1869 -Mid.  1870). 
Willoughby,  Ferrers  Thomas  (Jan.  25,  1807 -June  1809). 
Willson,  William  (May  2,  1832 -Mid.  1834). 
Willson,  Thomas  J.  (Jan.  15,  1838 -Xmas.  1840). 

Willson,  William  E.,  br.  of  above  (Jan.  15,  i838-Xmas.  1841), 
m.  d.  of  John  Hardman,  Esq. 

Wilson,  David  (July  4,  1803  -  Dec.  1805). 

Wilson,  Cyril  J.,  son  of  R.  Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Clapham  (March 
29,  i862-Xmas.  1867)  ;  Public  Man,  Sep.  to  Dec.,  1867  ;  Good 
Conduct  Medal,  1868  ;  m.  Frances,  d.  of  Charles  Noel  Welman,  Esq. 

Wilson,  Hugh  Carter,  br.  of  above  (Sep   10,  i863-Mid.  1867). 

Winkfield,  Henry  (Oct  5,  1840 -Mid.  1841). 

Witham,  Francis,  son  of  William  Witham,  Esq.,  b.  1815 
(Aug.  16,  1827  -  Mid.  1830),  m.  Mary  Lucy  Vincent  ;  died  Aug.  28, 
1843- 

Witham,  James,  br.  of  above,  b.  1820  (Aug.  14,  1834-  Mid. 

1836),    m ,    1st,    Elizabeth    Polton  ;    2ndly,    Harriet    Selina,   d.   of 
Richard  Wells,  Esq. 

Witham,  Robert  (Aug.  8,  1831  -Xmas.  1833). 

Witham,  Robert,  son  of  J.  Sutcliffe  Witham,  Esq.  (Oct.  6, 
1857 -Xmas.  1858). 

Wolseley,  Edward  Talbot,  br.  of  Sir  Charles  Michael  Wolseley, 
Bart,  b.  1848  (June  17,  1860  -  Xmas.  1864);  Capt.  3rd  Staff. 
Militia  ;  m.  Florence,  d.  of  Edward  Weld,  Esq. 

Wood,  George  Vincent  (March  24,  1846-  Xmas.  1846). 
Woodroffe,  John  George  (Jan.  1876  -Xmas.  1878). 
Woodward,  Richard  (Sep.  10,  1863  -  Mid.  1865). 

Woodward,  Charles  (Sep.  1864  -  March  1867)  ;  served  as  a 
Papal  Zouave,  and  was  present  at  the  battle  of  Mentana. 


Il6  APPENDIX. 

Woollett,  George  (Oct.  18,  1877 -Mid.  1878)  (in  Divinity). 

Worswick,  Thomas  (July  28,  1807 -June  1809). 

Worswick,  Ambrose  (Sep.  3,  1859- April  1860). 

Wright,  John  (Oct.  1859  -Xmas.  1864). 

Wright,  —  (Aug.  16,  1861). 

Wye,  John  (Aug.  12,  1809 -Feb.  1810). 

Wyse,  Alfred  Bonaparte,  J.P.,  D.L.,  eldest  son  of  the  late 
Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Thomas  Wyse.  K.C.B.  (Sep.  22,  1834-  Mid.  1838)  ; 
High  Sheriff,  Waterford,  1870  ;  Knight  Commander  of  the  Order 
of  S.  Maurice  and  Lazarus,  and  of  the  Nichan  Iftichar  of  Tunis. 

Wyse,  William,  br.  of  above;  Capt.  Waterford  Militia;  High 
Sheriff,  Waterford,  1855  (Nov.  19,  1837  -Mid.  1844)  ;  m.  Ellen,  d. 
of  J.  Prout,  Esq. 

Wyse,  Arthur,  nephew  of  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Thomas  Wyse,  b.  1830 
(Sep.  20,  1840  -  Mid.  1844);  Resident  Magistrate,  Castlebar ; 
formerly  an  officer  48th  Regt. 

Xhoffray,  Jules  (Feb.  6,  1857-  Mid.  1857). 

Yates,  James  (Jan.  9,  1817 -Jan.  1826). 

Yates,  Francis  (Feb.  i,  1819 -Dec.  1823). 

Ynigo,  John  (Dec.  2,  1835 -Mid.  1837). 

Ynigo,  Manuel  (June  4,  1838 -Oct.  1840). 

YnigO,  Francis  (June  4,  1838  -  Xmas.  1841). 

Yonge,  Francis  (Nov.  6,  1856 -Oct.  1857). 

Yonge,  James  (Nov.  6,  1856 -Xmas.  1858). 

Young,  Gwillym  (Aug.  13,  183 2 -Mid.  1834). 

Young,  Austin  (Aug.  13,  1850  -^Vlid.  1852). 

Young,   Alfred  (Aug.    13,    1850  -  Mid.    1855);    Recorder  of 

Gloucester. 

Young,  Clement  (Aug.  23,  1852 -Mid.  1856). 
Young,  Edward  (Jan.  1854 -Mid.  1857). 
Young,  Cyril,  son  of  Alfred  Young,  Esq.  (June  i,  1876-  Mid. 

1877). 

Young,  Edward,  son  of  Edward  Young,  Esq.  (Oct.  3,  1885-  ). 
Young,  Clement,  br.  of  above  (April  4,  1888-      ). 
Young,  C.  J.  E.  (Feb.  20,  1872  -April  1872)  (in  Divinity). 
Yzaguirre,  John  (Oct.  ^857  -  March  1859). 
Zavala,   John,  son  of  General  Zavala  (March  22,  1856  -  M;d. 

1859)- 
Zimmermann,  Adrian  (Aug.  8.  1856  -  Mid.  1857) 


APPENDIX.  I  I  7 

LAY   MASTERS. 

Antheunis,  Jules  (1868  -  69)  ;  Professor  of  French. 
Avrillon,     F.    J.     (1881  -  86) ;     Professor   of     French     and 

Drawing. 

Barber,  Luke,  (  ) ;  Drawing  Master.     R.I. P. 

Barratt,  John  (1861  -     )  ;  Professor  of  Music. 
Bartholome,    Frederic,    Ph.D.     (1870  -  74)  ;    Professor    of 

Classics. 

Beck,  E.  W.  (Dec.  1884  -  Jan.  1885). 
Benz,  John  B.   (1839-41);    Professor  of  Music;  died  July 

25,  1880. 

Biard,  Monsieur  (1861);  Professor  of  French. 
Blaise,  Clement  (1870-  74);  Professor  of  French. 
Blandford,  William  (1860-  75)  ;  Professor  of  Music. 
Bohen,  Philip  (1844  -  50);  Professor  of  Mathematics. 
Bond,  Mr.  (1812  -  13). 

Browne,  Henry  Martyn  (1874)  ;  English  Master. 
Cantopher,  Mr.  (1863);  Librarian. 
De  la  Sere,  Monsieur  (1860)  ;  Professor  of  French. 
Delefortrie,  Monsieur  (1860  -  61)  ;  Professor  of  French. 
Dupuy,  Aloys,  (1878  -  79) ;  Professor  of  French. 
De  Saussey,  Baron  (1820  -  37);  Professor  of  French. 
Kgan,  Patrick  (1875  -  88) ;  Professor  of  Classics. 
Ewald,  Franz  (1874  -  75)  ;  Professor  of  Classics. 
Fowler,  John  (1847  -  49)  ;  Procurator. 
Gautier,  Monsieur  (1846  -  47)  ,   Professor  of  French. 
Glenwitz,  Mr.  (1861);  Professor  of  German. 
Grandame,  Joseph  (1878  -  81)  ;  Professor  of  French. 
Gravet,  Octave  (1874  -  75)  Professor  of  French. 
Hallot,  F.  X.  (1837  -  41) ;   Professor  of  French. 
Harper,  Samuel  B.  (1864-  65);  English  Master. 

Hart,  Alban,  J.  X.  (1864  -  68);  English   Master;    died  April 
i3th,  1879. 

Healy,  Mr.  (1859)  ;  English  Master. 
Healey,  J.  T.  (1884  -  85) ;  Professor  of  Mathematics. 
Helt,  Mr.  (1868  -  69)  ;  Professor  of  Mathematics. 
16 


Il8  APPENDIX. 

Hemming,  Clement  (1871-80);  Drawing  Master. 

Herbert,  Alfred  L,  B.A.  (1880  -         ) ;  Professor  of  Classics 

and  English 

Hoskins,  Mr.  J.  (1860-61);  Professor  of  Classics. 
Hoymann,  Moritz  (1875  -  77) ;  Professor  of  German. 
Kemen,  Charles  (1866-     );  Professor  of  French  and  German. 
Kirkby,  H.  (1871-72);  English  Master. 
Kremer,  Nicolaus  (1874  -  75) ;  Professor  of  German. 
Lamb,  Henry  (1843    47);  Surgeon;  died  Dec.  19,  1878. 

Lampert,    John    George    (1841-49);    Professor    of    Music 

died  Oct.  19,  1884. 

Lampert,  Adam  (1844-49) ;  Professor  of  Music, 
Leipold,  John  (1849-56)  (1859-61);  Professor  of  Music. 
Le  Ray,  Monsieur  (1799). 
Le  Vieux,  Monsieur  (1799). 

Lynch,  William  (1880);  Professor  of  Mathematics. 
McSwiney,    Felix    (1874  -  84)    (1887  -        )  ;     Professor  of 

Drawing  and  Mathematics. 
Mann,  George  (1844  -  46)  ;    Procurator. 
Massin,  Monsieur  (1877);  Professor  of  French. 
Meunier,  Louis  (1876  -  77) ;  Professor  of  French. 
Miller,  Mr.  (1874);  English  Master. 

Moody,    Robert   Sadleir,    M.A.    (1862-72);     Professor    of 

Classics. 
Mutimer,  Arthur,  M.A.  (1881  -       );  Professor  of  Science  and 

Mathematics. 
Oakes,  W.  J.,  F.R.G.S.  (1880  -81);  Professor  of  Science. 

Parker,  Timothy  (1830  -  71) ;  Dancing  and  Fencing  Master; 
died  Jan.  19,  1885. 

Pugin,  Augustus  Welby  (1837-39);  Lecturer  on  Archi- 
tecture and  Art ;  died  Sep.  14,  1852. 

Riordan,  Mr.  (1873-74);  English  Master. 

Robinson,  Thomas  (1875) ;  Professor  of  Classics. 

Roesch,  Mr.  (1876);  Professor  of  German. 

Ryder,  George   Dudley,  M.A.   (1861-62);    Librarian;    died 

June  19,  1880. 
St.  Aubyn,  Grenville    (1858-61)  (1873-80);    Professor   of 

Mathematics  ;  died  Nov.  22,  1883. 
Schlager,  Herr  (  ) ;  Professor  of  German. 


APPENDIX.  119 

Septier,  Monsieur  (1869-  70)  ;  Professor  of  German. 

Sharman,  Mr.  (1827-     );  Professor  of  Music. 

Shaw,  Lewis  (1799-    )• 

Sisson,  Mr.  (1795  -  1800)  ;  Procurator. 

Skene,  A.  P.  (1861) ;  Professor  of  Classics. 

Spencer,    James    Anthony,    B.A.   (1869-70);     Professor    of 

Mathematics  ;  died  Dec.  15,  1873. 
Voight,  Paulus  (1843-44);  Professor  of  Music. 
Waymouth,    H.,    Ph.D.    (May  -  Dec.    1879);    Professor   of 

Science. 

Westfield,  Mr.  (1861)  ;  English  Master. 
Williams,  Edward  A.  (1877 -April  1881)  ;  English  Master. 
Wood,  John  (1853  -  56)  ;  Professor  of  Music. 
Wood,  Thomas  (1874 -Dec.  1880)  ;  English  Master. 
Woodward,    Charles    ].,    B.Sc.    (1872  -  79) ;     Professor    ot 

Science. 
Yates,  Mr.  (1800-1802);  Procurator. 


ADDENDA. 


PRIESTS    (OMITTED). 

Foley,  William  (1806-1807)    (1817-25),  ordained  Feb.    25, 

1820;     Procurator    1818  -  23;     Prof,     of     Discipline     1822  -  23; 

returned  as  locum  tenens  for  Dr.  Weedall,  1830  -31  ;  died  Feb.  u, 

1843. 
*Le    Ray,    Joseph    (1799),    one    of   the    French    emigrants; 

Professor  of  French. 
Wareing,  James,  br.  to  Bp.  Wareing  (Sep.  27,  1808 -March 

1809)  ;  died  at  Lisbon,  Sep.  25,  1852. 


Bagshawe,  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1846,  2nd 

in  Cl. ;  B.A.  1848  ;   1st  in  Cl.,  First  Scrip.  1848  ;    Good  Conduct 

Medal. 

Knight,  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop;  Good  Conduct  Medal  1843. 
Acton,  Very  Rev.  Edw.  Canon,  D.D. ;  Public  Man  Nov.  1855- 

April  1856;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1856;  B.A.  1858. 
Ashlin,    Rev.    Stephen;   Matric.    Lond.    Univ.    1853;  Public 

Man,  Jan.  -June,  1854. 
Bagshawe,  John  Canon;  Matric.  Lond.   Univ.  1844;    B.A. 

1846. 


120  ADDENDA. 

Ball,  Rev.  Anthony;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1850. 

Barry,   Rev.   W. ;  Matric    Lond.  Univ.    1868,   yth  in  Hons., 

and  Prize. 

Beech,  Rev.  A. ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1877. 
Bonus,  Rev.  J.  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1848;  Prel.  Sci.  1864. 
Caswell,  Rev.  John;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1865. 
Clarke,  Rev.  C.  C  ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1869. 
Colegrave,  Hubert;  Good  Conduct  Medal,  1888. 
Corbishley,  Rev.  G. ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1852. 
Crane,  Rev.  A.  B. ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1868. 
Crewe,  Rev.  M. ;  Matric  Lond.  Univ.  1841. 
Dalton,  Rev.  J.  P. ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1869. 
Daly,  Hon.  John  G. ;  Public  Man,  Aug.  -  Dec.  1853. 
Davies,  Very  Rev.  H.  B.,  Canon;  Public  Man,  Jan. -Aug.  1851. 

Davis,  Rev.   G.,  O.S.B. ;  Matric.  Lond.   Univ.    1846,  4th   in 

Chem.  ;  B.A.  1849 ;  3rd  in  Chem. 
Esmonde,  Sir  T.,  Public  Man,  Sep.  -  Dec.  1879. 
Flanagan,  Rev.  Thomas  ;  Public  Man,  1 849  -  50. 
Hopkins,  Rev.  H. ;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1841. 
Hopwood,  Rev.  John;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1877. 
Kelly,  Rev.  Joseph;  Matric.  Lond.  Univ.  1842;  B.A.  1844. 
Kennedy,  Rev.  John;  B.A.  Lond.  Univ.  1841. 

Kirsopp,  Rev.  F.  ;   Public  Man,   1844-45;    Good  Conduct 

Medal  1846. 
Knight,  Rev.  Arthur,  S.J. ;  Matric.    Lond.  Univ.  1860  ;  Good 

Conduct  Medal  1851. 

Knight,  Rev.  Thomas,  S.J.  ;  Good  Conduct  Medal  1847. 
Longman,  Very   Rev.  Thomas,  Canon,  V.G.  ;    Public   Man, 

1839-41  ;  B.A.  Lond.  Univ.  1841. 
Mackey,  Rev.  D.,  O.P. ;    Matric.    Lond.    Univ   1868,   4oth  in 

Hons.  ;  Intermed.  Laws,  1870,  3rd  Cl.  in  Ii.>iib. 
Gattinara,  Count  Mercurino  di. 
Ghislieri,  Marchese  Alfonso. 

[  These  two  names  should  have  been  inserted  inkier  "  Nobility."] 
Lynch,  Rev.  Hugh;  died  Dec.  13,  1883. 


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