Born: 19 November 1906, Glenavon House, Rathealy, Fermoy, County Cork
Entered: 07 September 1940, St Mary's, Emo, County Laois
Ordained: 16 April 1938
Died: 17 March 1978

Left Society of Jesus: 09 July, 1941

Father was a solicitor in Fermoy who died in 1933.

Fourth of seven sons (1 deceased) and four sisters.

Early education was at Loreto Convent and Christian Brothers Schools, St Colman’s, Fermoy and Mungret College SJ.

Leaving school he started as a solicitor’s apprentice at his father’s practice, and attended law lectures at UCD in Dublin, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1929 and worked at his father’s officeuntil 1933, when he left to study for priesthood.

He spent two years at St John’s Catholic Seminary, Wonersh, Guildford, Surrey. He then went to the Beda College in Rome for Theology and was ordained 16 April 1938 in John Lateran’s Basilica, saying his first Mass at St Mary Majors - like St Ignatius.

First appointment was as a Chaplain to the Holy Cross Convent, Haslemere and then more permanently at St Mary’s Parish, Preston Park, Brighton.

Death noted in Diocesan Directory 2020 https://www.diocese.cc/FileSystem/11/Public/Publications/54/1251/pages.pdf