Henry Bedford (educator)

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Henry Bedford MA(Cantab) (1816-1903) was an English Catholic convert formerly attached to the Oxford Movement, was an educator and writer of many Catholic leaflets.

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He was born in London on 1 October 1816. In 1835 he went to St. Peter's College, Cambridge where he obtained an MA in Arts and Science. [1] He went to train as a priest in the Church of England serving as assistant curate in Christ Church, Hoxton, and was noted as a preacher. In 1851 converted to Catholicism and in 1852 he moved to Ireland after an offer to join to staff of All Hallows College in Dublin where he lectured as Professor of Natural Science, he also served as treasurer and joined the board of directors. [2] A natural defect in his right hand was a canonical obstacle to his ordination into the church. [2] He continued to teach, and write and be published on a variety of subjects, and also lecture publicly. [2]

Famed as a preacher he was invited to lecture speak and many occasions, such as a guest speaker at the laying of the foundation stone of the new chapel in Maynooth College, [1] he also lectured at St. Patrick's Teacher Training College, Drumcondra, on English Literature.[ citation needed ]

He died on 21 May 1903, in the nursing care of St. John of Gods Brothers in Stillorgan in Dublin, [3] and is buried in All Hallows College Cemetery.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. 1 2 The Missionary College of All Hallows 1842-1891 Archived 14 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine by Kevin Condon CM, www.allhallows.ie, All Hallows College, 1986.
  2. 1 2 3 Meehan, Thomas Francis (1907). "Henry Bedford"  . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia . Vol. 2. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  3. "Henry Bedford Writer and educator (1816-1903)". Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2011.