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Campion House College
CB214 · Corporate body · 1914-2004

Campion House was a Roman catholic college run by the Society of Jesus in the Archdiocese of Westminster. Originally a Victorian mansion called Thornbury House. In 1911, it came under the ownership of the Society of Jesus as a retreat house. After the First World War the name was to Campion House College and it became place to help young men, with a late vocation, to progress in their training for the priesthood. The college was not just for the Jesuits but for students from all the Catholic dioceses of England and Wales, other religious orders and from outside of the UK. The college provided its own newsletter Stella Maris.
In the early 1960s, over 160 men were annually being trained. So it was decided to make the college permanent and for it to serve all men who had a late vocation. However, from the 1970s, student numbers lessened and by the turn of the 21st century, students numbers had gone down and the house was used more as a retreat centre. So in April 2004, it was announced that it would close. Its closure was marked on 12 May 2004 by a Mass at Westminster Cathedral led by the Archbishop of Westminster.

Matthews, Desmond S Rev SJ
P125 · Person · 10 November 1978

Testimonial about Fr J Smith (March) plus reports praise of the Bishop for same.

P134 · Person · 1931-1973

1926: ordained at Beccles
1931: PP Wymondham
1946-54: PP at King's Lynn
1954-1972: PP at Hunstanton
1972: Retired from Hunstanton
1973: died

White, T A Rev SJ
P226 · Person · 1927

1927: letter of introduction for Mr G Pauling to the Bishop

Pace, Salvatore Rev SJ
P282 · Person · 1923-1925

1923-1925: Assistant Priest at St Mary's Great Yarmouth

Courtney, Timothy Rev SJ
P283 · Person · 1919-1925

1919-1925: Assistant priest at St Mary's Yarmouth

P284 · Person · 1858-1925

1925: Residing at St Mary's in Great Yarmouth
Historian and journalist; b. London, England, Sept. 22, 1858; d. Roehampton, April 8, 1925. He was the third of ten children born to John H. Pollen, professor of fine arts at the Catholic University in Dublin during Newman's brief rectorship, and Maria Margaret Laprimaudeye, daughter of the future Cardinal Manning's curate at Lavington. After schooling in Münster, Westphalia, and later at the Oratory, Birmingham, Pollen entered the Society of Jesus in 1877. A year spent, between his philosophical and theological studies, in assisting Father John Morris, then vice-postulator of the cause of the English martyrs, determined the direction his own work was to take; after ordination (1891) he was appointed to the Jesuit House of Writers at Farm Street, London, where he led a life of single-minded devotion to the tasks of research, writing, and lecturing, mainly on the English martyrs and related matters. (see england, scotland, and wales, martyrs of.) He became vice-postulator of the cause, in succession to Father Morris, whose "Life" he wrote. He also edited and contributed to sundry volumes published by the Catholic Record Society, and contributed to the "Lives of the English Martyrs," collaborating with Dom Bede Camm, OSB, in the first series, and with Canon E. H. Burton in the second.

For almost 40 years, although not formally attached to the staff of the Jesuit review, the month, he regularly contributed articles that evidenced a first-class historical mind. These soon led to an invitation to speak before the Scottish Historical Society, which resulted in the publication of the documents contained in Papal Negotiations with Mary, Queen of Scots (1901) edited by Pollen with a long introductory study. He returned to the theme intermittently in the pages of the Month until 1922, when he published Queen Mary and the Babington Plot.

Pollen's most considerable work was The English Catholics in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth: A Study of Their Politics, Civil Life, and Government, 1558–1580 (1920). It gave final shape to the conclusions he had reached in piecemeal studies published in the Month over the years, and was generally accepted as at once scholarly and authoritative. It has stood the test of time, as reference to such a work as Philip Hughes's The Reformation in England (5th ed. 1963) clearly indicates.

"Pollen, John Hungerford." New Catholic Encyclopedia. . Retrieved June 16, 2019 from Encyclopedia.com: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/pollen-john-hungerford

Dinley, Patrick Rev SJ
P288 · Person · 1927-1940

pre1927: Rector at St Aloysius', Glasgow; Superior British Guiana
1927-1940: PP at St Mary's, Great Yarmouth

P289 · Person · 1941-1946

20 March 1878: born in Bath, Somerset; died 14 July 1949 in Boscombe, Hampshire
1941-46: Parish Priest at St Mary's Great Yarmouth

7/04/1916 appointed CF 4th Class (temp), 28/10/1918 appointed CF 3rd Class (temp). Served in France. Deputy Assistant Principal Chaplain. Wounded 7/10/1916, MC (Military Cross); 1 x MID (Mentioned in Dispatches), demobilised 21/01/1920.
Jesuit chaplain, Fr John Stratton, was awarded the Military Cross on 14 November 1916 for gallant conduct during the fighting of 15 and 16 September. He was decorated ‘for tending the wounded with great courage and skill under heavy fire. He has on many previous occasions displayed the greatest bravery’. He had been in France since February 1916 with 12th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry. He had been invalided with trench fever for part of June and July but by September he was back at the Front. On 7 October a shell landed on to his mess. Providentially no one was killed but Fr Stratton was extricated unconscious from the debris with several wounds.
(from the Stoneyhurst War Record p.394 and The Tablet, 28 Oct and 25 November 1916) quoted in ‘Priests in Uniform’ by Dr James Hagerty KSG (Gracewing; 2018).

P290 · Person · 1946-1958

1946-1958: PP St Mary's, Great Yarmouth
10 February 1888 born in Chislehurst, Kent; 22 November 1958 died in Norwich, Norfolk

Dennis, Norman Rev SJ
P291 · Person · 1959-1962

1959 - 1962: PP at St Mary's Great Yarmouth

Daly, Patrick Rev SJ
P305 · Person · 1927

1927: Moving from Great Yarmouth to Wakefield

Keane, Henry Rev SJ
P306 · Person · 1927

1927: Writing to Bishop re placement of Jesuits in the Diocese

Boyle, J D Rev SJ
P308 · Person · 1955

1955: writing as Provincial to Bishop

Coventry, John Rev SJ
P309 · Person · 1961

1961: Writing to the Bishop about transfer of St Mary's parish Great Yarmouth

Evans, James Rev SJ
P311 · Person · 1961-1963

!962: mentioned as being an assistant priest at St Mary's Great Yarmouth

Wright, John H Rev SJ
P321 · Person · 1923

1923: writing to Bishop re faculties for Fr Pace