Roman Catholic Cardinal. A native of Clapham, Francis Alphonsus Bourne was the son of a post office clerk. Receiving his first education at Ushaw's St. Cuthbert College and St. Edmund's Seminary in Ware, he joined briefly the Order of Preachers but left in 1880. Pursuing his studies at the Seminary of St. Thomas in Hammersmith, the Saint-Sulpice Seminary in Paris and at the University of Louvain, he was ordained priest on June 11, 1884, in his native Clapham. Serving in the parishes of Blackheath, Mortlake and West Grinstead within the diocese of Southwark, he was named rector of the house of studies of Henfield Place and subsequently of St. John's Seminary in Wonersh. Appointed coadjutor with right of succession of the diocese of Southwark, Bourne received his episcopal consecration with the titular see of Epifania on May 1, 1896. Succeeding on April 9, 1897, he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Westminster on September 11, 1903. Created cardinal priest with the title of Santa Pudenziana by Pope Benedict XV in 1914, the Cardinal passed away at his Westminster residence following a cardiac related illness which lasted a year. While his body was interred at St. Edmund's College, Ware, Hertford, in a chapel built by him in memory of the college members who died during the Great War, his heart was deposited in the chapel of St. John's Seminary, Wonersh, in June 1935. When the seminary was closed in 2021, his heart, along with the remains of Msgr. John Butt, Bishop of Southwark, who passed away in 1899 and was buried at the seminary, were removed and eventually reinterred at Saint George's Cathedral in Southwark on Friday July 1, 2022. The ceremony, led by Msgr. John Wilson, Archbishop of Southwark, saw the participation amongst others of Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster; Msgr. Bernard Longley, Archbishop of Birmingham; Msgr. Richard Moth, Bishop of Arundel and Brighton and other senior members of the clergy. Bishop Butt was the founder of Saint John's Seminary, and as a relatively young priest, Father Bourne was its first rector.