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P680 · Person · 1881-1965

28 March 1881: born
1901: clothed, Fort Augustus, Inverness
1902: professed
1908: ordained
WWI: Naval chaplain
1926-1929: prior, Portsmouth Abbey (Rhode Island, USA)
1929: elected Abbot
1937: re-elected Abbot
1939: resigned as Abbot
1940-1944: PP at St Benet's Beccles
1944: re-elected Abbot
13 April 1965: died

Christmas 1940: Abbot Knowles replaced Rev Fr G William Tate, OSB, who after two years in Beccles, was appointed priest-in-charge of St Mary’s Priory Church, Egremont, Cumberland

P675 · Person · 1918-1997

1918: born
1936: novice at Downside Abbey
1937: clothed
1943: ordained
1943: Christ's College, Cambridge, to read History - gaining a double First
1946: Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
1948-1962: Housemaster at Downside
1962-1975: Headmaster of Downside
1975-1989: Beccles, parish priest
1975: Mayor of Beccles
1989: Downside as Abbot of Glastonbury
1997: died