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Gowman, Martin Rev OSB
P009 · Person · 2013

23-6-2007: Ordained
2012[?]-present [2021]: PP at St Benet's Beccles
2013: produced a parish newsletter

P028 · Person · Ordained 2-7-1994

Father Edmund joined the Diocese of East Anglia in September 1997, having previously been a member of the Order of Saint Benedict. He has served the following parishes and hospitals in the diocese:
1997-2001 Assistant priest in Bury St. Edmunds parish
2001-2003 Assistant priest in All Souls parish, Peterborough
1998-2003 Served hospital chaplaincy departments at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust and Peterborough District Hospital NHS Trust.
2003-2010 Parish Priest of Downham Market parish
2010 - Parish Priest of Woodbridge & Framlingham parish

Vonier, Ascar Rev OSB
P097 · Person · elected 14-9-1906. Died 26-12-1938

see The life & Work of Abbot Anscar Vonier by Dom Leo Smith (1996)
www.monlib.org.uk/papers/ebch/1996smith.pdf (accessed 7-9-2018)

Wright, Timothy Rev
P269 · Person · 1986

1986: mentioned by Fr Brown in Wymondham to Bishop

Parker, S Anselm Rev OSB MA
P383 · Person · 1930-1950

1930-1947: Parish Priest at St Mary's, Leyland, Lancashire
1950: Letter addressed to him regarding manuscript corrections

Smith, Joseph E Rev OSB
P385 · Person · 1950-1962

1950-1962: PP at St Joseph's, Hoghton, Lancashire
1950: letter to C H Thomson

P491 · Person · 1902-1986

1980: writing to Bishop Clark

Basil Butler was a convert to Roman Catholicism from Church of England.
He was a Roman Catholic priest, the 7th Abbot of Downside Abbey, one-time Abbot President of the English Benedictine Congregation, an auxiliary bishop of Westminster, an internationally respected scripture scholar, a consistent defender of the priority of the Gospel according to Matthew, and the pre-eminent English-speaking Council Father at the Second Vatican Council (1962–65).

Green, Maurice Rev OSB
P506 · Person · 1983

1983: Contacting Bishop Clark for permission to run a retreat for Anglican nuns in Walsingham

P592 · Person · 1926-2004

Former Abbot President of the Subiaco Congregation, Abbot Gilbert Jones OSB, died on 5 October 2004 at his residence, Saint Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, England. Born at Chester in 1926, he professed vows at Ramsgate in 1964 following a career as a stage and television actor in England. He became Abbot of Ramsgate in 1972 and was elected Abbot President of the Subiaco Congregation in 1988, retiring in 1996. During his time as Abbot President he lived at Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, he maintained the appellation, "Abbot of Tours," by visiting and assisting monasteries of the Subiaco Congregation in the United States, Mexico and England. Until his death, he served as Prior of Saint Augustine's Abbey.

P593 · Person · 1945-2015

Charles Arthur Waldron was born on 4th July 1921 in Muswell Hill, London. He went to the Abbey School in Ramsgate in 1930; won a scholarship to Douai School; articled in 1938 for five years to a Chartered Accountant and also attended training classes of the Catholic Evidence Guild.
In the Second World War he initially joined the Home Guard. He served from 1941 as a radar mechanic in the RAF and crossed to France in September 1944 on RAF operations with his OBOE radio-location unit and by November 1944 was established in Holland and later Germany until demobbed.
He joined the St Augustine's Abbey in 1945; his monastic profession in January 1947. After his ordination to the priesthood, studies at Manresa College and teaching at Madeley Court, he was appointed headmaster of the Ramsgate based “Abbey Day School”.
After his retirement as Headmaster and return to the Abbey at Ramsgate in 1987, he went to Ghana as first superior of Kristo Buase, the Benedictine monastic foundation in Ghana.
When Abbot Gilbert Jones, was elected Abbot President of the Subiaco Congregation and Fr Bernard was elected the sixth Abbot of Ramsgate. He retired as Abbot in 1996 and dies on 21st January 2015.

P609 · Person · 1917-2016

Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, on 6 December 1917
Died on Sunday 21 February 2016
He went to school in Liverpool and then to Ampleforth College. From the school he joined the monastic community and was professed as a Benedictine monk on 23 September 1939. Following studies at St Benet's Hall at the University of Oxford, Fr Barry returned to Ampleforth and became school librarian and Senior Classics Master. In January 1954 he became Housemaster of St Wilfrid's House and Deputy Head. Ten years later, in September 1964, he was appointed Headmaster of Ampleforth College by Abbot Basil Hume. He also became Chairman of the Headmasters' Conference, anl association of Heads of the world's leading independent schools.
He was Headmaster until January 1980. On 5 April 1984, Fr Patrick Barry was elected the sixth Abbot of Ampleforth. He was re-elected in 1992, and retired from office in March 1997.

Barker, Marion Tess OSB
P641 · Person · 1975

1975: writing about Downham Market and Latin rite

P661 · Person · 1885-1899

pre-1885: Abervagenny
1885: Arrives in Bungay
1887: writing to Bishop re Beccles mission
18891-1-2: died

P663 · Person · 1851-1930

1851: born
pre 1889: Prior at Downside
1889-1894: first PP at Beccles
1900-1906: First Abbot of Downside Abbey
1930: died