Mother Winifred Archer-Shee, RSCJ, a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, the daughter of Martin Archer-Shee (1846-1913) and Edith Dennistoun Pell (1852-1890). She served as vicar for England for the Society between 1930 and 1946.
Born in Birmingham, she studied at Bristol University and entered the Society aged 26 in 1908. Professed in 1916, she founded the Society's community at Oxford in 1929 and was Superior there for a year before becoming Vicar General. During the years of the Second World War she oversaw the evacuation of the Sacred Heart schools to various places throughout England. After the war she was Superior at Tunbridge Wells for five years, then Mistress of Novices at Roehampton until 1971.
Winifred's father Martin and her half-brother George were participants in the cause célèbre that was the inspiration for the play 'The Winslow Boy' by Terence Rattigan. While a Royal Navy cadet, George was accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order. At the trial George was successfully defended against the charges by the noted barrister, judge and politician Sir Edward Carson. When war broke out, George joined the Army and was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. He was killed at the First Battle of Ypres, aged just 19, and is commemorated with a plaque at the Sacred Heart War Memorial in Roehampton.
In her memoirs, held in the Society's provincial archives, Mother Archer Shee writes, 'This place [Roehampton] has always meant more to me than any other place.'
Requiescat in pace!
Cor unum et anima una in Corde Jesu.
Mother Winifred Archer-Shee, RSCJ, a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, the daughter of Martin Archer-Shee (1846-1913) and Edith Dennistoun Pell (1852-1890). She served as vicar for England for the Society between 1930 and 1946.
Born in Birmingham, she studied at Bristol University and entered the Society aged 26 in 1908. Professed in 1916, she founded the Society's community at Oxford in 1929 and was Superior there for a year before becoming Vicar General. During the years of the Second World War she oversaw the evacuation of the Sacred Heart schools to various places throughout England. After the war she was Superior at Tunbridge Wells for five years, then Mistress of Novices at Roehampton until 1971.
Winifred's father Martin and her half-brother George were participants in the cause célèbre that was the inspiration for the play 'The Winslow Boy' by Terence Rattigan. While a Royal Navy cadet, George was accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order. At the trial George was successfully defended against the charges by the noted barrister, judge and politician Sir Edward Carson. When war broke out, George joined the Army and was commissioned into the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment. He was killed at the First Battle of Ypres, aged just 19, and is commemorated with a plaque at the Sacred Heart War Memorial in Roehampton.
In her memoirs, held in the Society's provincial archives, Mother Archer Shee writes, 'This place [Roehampton] has always meant more to me than any other place.'
Requiescat in pace!
Cor unum et anima una in Corde Jesu.
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