died 17 August 2015
John Selwyn Gummer, Baron Deben PC (born 26 November 1939 in Stockport, Cheshire) is a British Conservative Party politician, formerly Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and now a member of the House of Lords. He is chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change. He also chairs the sustainability consultancy Sancroft International, recycler Valpak, GLOBE International – the Global Legislators Organisation for a Balanced Environment, the Association of Professional Financial Advisers and Veolia Water UK. He is a non-executive director of Veolia Voda, The Catholic Herald and the Castle Trust – a mortgage and investment firm. He is a trustee of climate change charity Cool Earth and the ocean conservation charity, Blue Marine Foundation.
Gummer stood down from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election and was appointed to the House of Lords as Lord Deben.[8]
1979 to 1983: Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School then studying Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge
1990: ordained
?-2008: Administrator of Westminster Cathedral
2009-2013: Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
2013-?: Chaplain at Fisher House (the University of Cambridge's chaplaincy for Catholic students)
2022: died
He was influential in relations between the Catholic and Anglican Churches during the consolidation of plans to create the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. A 2012 Tablet article described him as a "clear preacher with a good sense of humour".
Langham was a prolific writer and has contributed to The Tablet, amongst other publications. In 2014, he wrote an article entitled, "God knows where the women bishops vote leaves Anglican-Catholic relations".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Langham (accessed 26-7-2018)
Obituary: RCDEA 2022 Yearbook page 70-71 (accessed 6-1-2024)
Michael Seed (born 1957) is a priest, a Franciscan friar, author, and former ecumenical advisor for over 25 years to the former archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Basil Hume then to Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. Fr Michael retired from Westminster in July 2008. Seed is known for his involvement in helping several British celebrities, members of the Royal Family and politicians decide on conversion to Catholicism.