Secretary to Bishop Alan Clark - pp letters from 1974
1976-7 - Bishop's secretary
1950-1962: PP at St Joseph's, Hoghton, Lancashire
1950: letter to C H Thomson
2017-2021: Study at the Pontifical Beda College in Rome.
2021: St Lawrence, Cambridge
3 July 2021: Ordained
Autumn 2021: Asst. Priest, St John the Baptist RC Cathedral, Norwich
1943: born
1972: Ordained
1995-2001: Bishop of East Anglia
2001-2010: Cardiff
2010-2019: Archbishop of Southwark
2019: retired
2020: died
Peter David Smith was born on 21 October 1943 in Battersea, London, England. He was educated at Clapham College, Exeter University, St. John's Seminary in Wonersh and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.
Obituary: RDCEA Yearbook 2021 Pg 72
"His working life as a botanist specialising in seeds. As the representative of an international seed-producing consortium of companies he gave his expertise to hundreds of horticultural nurseries and commercial greenhouses"
1907: born
1946: converted to Catholicism
1955: moved to Ipswich
1974: retired (aged 67)
1980: Published a book
1987: died - reported in Guild minutes 8-6-1987
1928: Prior at St Norbert's Prior
1877-1881: Priest at Thetford Mission
1881-1887+: Priest at St Mark's, Daventry (Cath. Dir 1887)
1978: Member of Council of the Shrine of Our lady of Walsingham
1928: Fr Arrowsmith, first priest in N Walsham ,was succeeded by Fr Snowden who rented a room in what is now the town's tourist information centre, Brentnall House.
1930: Bishop mentions him at the Poor Mission in North Walsham
1833: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul was founded in Paris by Frédéric Ozanam, (beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1997), a lawyer, author, and professor. SVP gradually expanded outside Paris in the mid-19th century. In January 1844 the first English SVP conference was founded. Early initiatives included the formation of the Catholic Shoe Black Brigade, providing boys with gainful employment and the first home of “the Rescue Society” which under various names still offers child care in many dioceses. In 2013 there were more than 10,000 members in more than 1,000 Conferences in the United Kingdom.
The Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) was founded in London in 1855 by a small group of Anglo-Catholic priests led by Father Charles Lowder. At a time when the Catholic Revival in the Church of England was threatened by persecution and misunderstanding, these priests came together for support, mutual prayer and encouragement.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Cambridgeshire (accessed 27-12-2018)
The town lost its independent Municipal Borough status in the Local Government reforms of 1974 and was incorporated into Waveney District. Southwold was then part of the Southwold and Reydon electoral ward until 1 April 2019. Then the Waveney and Suffolk Coastal districts were the amalgamated into a new East Suffolk district and Southwold became an expanded ward with Reydon and Walberswick.
2019, July 6: Ordained
2020: March
2021: Ipswich
1998 - Chaplain to Quidenham
1978: Mentioned by Bishop Clark
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) was founded in January 1967 to oppose the abortion bill being debated in Parliament at the time. That bill would go on to become the 1967 Abortion Act; it became the UK's first and largest pro-life group. SPUC campaigns to end abortion. It advocates the need for a consistent life ethic – one that values the lives of all human beings - and campaigns against other direct threats to the lives of vulnerable individuals, such as euthanasia and embryo abuse.