From The Tablet, 8 AUG 1936
Obituary
DOM ROGER HUDLESTON. Dom Roger Hudleston died suddenly at Downside early on Wednesday morning, August 5th, of a heart attack, aged 62. He had been for a few weeks rest to Cheltenham but, not feeling well, returned to Downside on the 4th, and although he looked ill, he was, as usual with him, quite cheerful. He was found dead in his bed next morning. With him the Abbot and Community of Downside lose a man of exceptional gifts and ability, whose many services to the house cannot be easily supplied.
Gilbert Roger Hudleston, son of William Hudleston, was born at Hutton John, Penrith, Cumberland, on December 27th, 1874, of an ancient family and long staunchly Catholic (though he was not of the Catholic branch)—the same to which belonged Father John Hudleston, O.S.B., who reconciled Charles II to the Church on his deathbed. He was educated at Welling-ton College 1888-1891; then, after two years as an articled clerk to a legal firm, he entered Keble College, Oxford, in 1895. On January 8th, of the following year, he was received into the Church in London, receiving his first Communion from Pope Leo XIII. He first came to Downside in 1896, and two years later took the habit, making his profession on September 6th, 1899. He was ordained priest at Downside on September 24th, 1904, thereafter filling many minor offices in the house, till, in 1916 he was appointed Headmaster of the School at Ealing. A year later he became a chaplain to the forces, and was stationed at Salonika. From 1924 to 1931 he was in charge of the mission at Little Malvern, which he was obliged to resign owing to heart trouble, which disabled him from the service of that hilly district. At the time of his death he held the responsible office of Economus of the funds pertaining to the missions, or parishes, served from Downside. Dom Roger had also conspicuous literary gifts, and was for a time the editor of Messrs. Burns Oates & Washbourne's " Orchard Series." Last year he published The Spiritual Letters of Abbot Chapman.
His loss will be felt by many friends outside the circle of his own brethren, but hardly by any so grievously as by them; for he was in every way an excellent community man, regular, cheerful, and ever ready and able to do a service and step into a breach. R.I.P.
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Clothed: 3 Sep 1898 at Belmont
Professed: 6 Sep 1899
Sol.Prof: 30 Sep 1902
Ordained: 24 Sep 1904
Father: William Hudleston
Mother: Laura Taylor
Educ: Wellington
Missions: – Norton St Philip 1913 – Bath 1923-24 – Little Malvern 1924--31.
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Besides the many Catholic spiritual works authored and edited by Dom Roger Hudleston, it should be noted here that he wrote ghost stories under the pseudonym Roger Pater. See: Mystic Voices (London: Burns & Oates, 1923) and My Cousin Philip (London: Burns & Oates, 1924).
Requiescat in pace!
Obituary
DOM ROGER HUDLESTON. Dom Roger Hudleston died suddenly at Downside early on Wednesday morning, August 5th, of a heart attack, aged 62. He had been for a few weeks rest to Cheltenham but, not feeling well, returned to Downside on the 4th, and although he looked ill, he was, as usual with him, quite cheerful. He was found dead in his bed next morning. With him the Abbot and Community of Downside lose a man of exceptional gifts and ability, whose many services to the house cannot be easily supplied.
Gilbert Roger Hudleston, son of William Hudleston, was born at Hutton John, Penrith, Cumberland, on December 27th, 1874, of an ancient family and long staunchly Catholic (though he was not of the Catholic branch)—the same to which belonged Father John Hudleston, O.S.B., who reconciled Charles II to the Church on his deathbed. He was educated at Welling-ton College 1888-1891; then, after two years as an articled clerk to a legal firm, he entered Keble College, Oxford, in 1895. On January 8th, of the following year, he was received into the Church in London, receiving his first Communion from Pope Leo XIII. He first came to Downside in 1896, and two years later took the habit, making his profession on September 6th, 1899. He was ordained priest at Downside on September 24th, 1904, thereafter filling many minor offices in the house, till, in 1916 he was appointed Headmaster of the School at Ealing. A year later he became a chaplain to the forces, and was stationed at Salonika. From 1924 to 1931 he was in charge of the mission at Little Malvern, which he was obliged to resign owing to heart trouble, which disabled him from the service of that hilly district. At the time of his death he held the responsible office of Economus of the funds pertaining to the missions, or parishes, served from Downside. Dom Roger had also conspicuous literary gifts, and was for a time the editor of Messrs. Burns Oates & Washbourne's " Orchard Series." Last year he published The Spiritual Letters of Abbot Chapman.
His loss will be felt by many friends outside the circle of his own brethren, but hardly by any so grievously as by them; for he was in every way an excellent community man, regular, cheerful, and ever ready and able to do a service and step into a breach. R.I.P.
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Clothed: 3 Sep 1898 at Belmont
Professed: 6 Sep 1899
Sol.Prof: 30 Sep 1902
Ordained: 24 Sep 1904
Father: William Hudleston
Mother: Laura Taylor
Educ: Wellington
Missions: – Norton St Philip 1913 – Bath 1923-24 – Little Malvern 1924--31.
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Besides the many Catholic spiritual works authored and edited by Dom Roger Hudleston, it should be noted here that he wrote ghost stories under the pseudonym Roger Pater. See: Mystic Voices (London: Burns & Oates, 1923) and My Cousin Philip (London: Burns & Oates, 1924).
Requiescat in pace!
From The Tablet, 8 AUG 1936
Obituary
DOM ROGER HUDLESTON. Dom Roger Hudleston died suddenly at Downside early on Wednesday morning, August 5th, of a heart attack, aged 62. He had been for a few weeks rest to Cheltenham but, not feeling well, returned to Downside on the 4th, and although he looked ill, he was, as usual with him, quite cheerful. He was found dead in his bed next morning. With him the Abbot and Community of Downside lose a man of exceptional gifts and ability, whose many services to the house cannot be easily supplied.
Gilbert Roger Hudleston, son of William Hudleston, was born at Hutton John, Penrith, Cumberland, on December 27th, 1874, of an ancient family and long staunchly Catholic (though he was not of the Catholic branch)—the same to which belonged Father John Hudleston, O.S.B., who reconciled Charles II to the Church on his deathbed. He was educated at Welling-ton College 1888-1891; then, after two years as an articled clerk to a legal firm, he entered Keble College, Oxford, in 1895. On January 8th, of the following year, he was received into the Church in London, receiving his first Communion from Pope Leo XIII. He first came to Downside in 1896, and two years later took the habit, making his profession on September 6th, 1899. He was ordained priest at Downside on September 24th, 1904, thereafter filling many minor offices in the house, till, in 1916 he was appointed Headmaster of the School at Ealing. A year later he became a chaplain to the forces, and was stationed at Salonika. From 1924 to 1931 he was in charge of the mission at Little Malvern, which he was obliged to resign owing to heart trouble, which disabled him from the service of that hilly district. At the time of his death he held the responsible office of Economus of the funds pertaining to the missions, or parishes, served from Downside. Dom Roger had also conspicuous literary gifts, and was for a time the editor of Messrs. Burns Oates & Washbourne's " Orchard Series." Last year he published The Spiritual Letters of Abbot Chapman.
His loss will be felt by many friends outside the circle of his own brethren, but hardly by any so grievously as by them; for he was in every way an excellent community man, regular, cheerful, and ever ready and able to do a service and step into a breach. R.I.P.
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Clothed: 3 Sep 1898 at Belmont
Professed: 6 Sep 1899
Sol.Prof: 30 Sep 1902
Ordained: 24 Sep 1904
Father: William Hudleston
Mother: Laura Taylor
Educ: Wellington
Missions: – Norton St Philip 1913 – Bath 1923-24 – Little Malvern 1924--31.
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Besides the many Catholic spiritual works authored and edited by Dom Roger Hudleston, it should be noted here that he wrote ghost stories under the pseudonym Roger Pater. See: Mystic Voices (London: Burns & Oates, 1923) and My Cousin Philip (London: Burns & Oates, 1924).
Requiescat in pace!
Obituary
DOM ROGER HUDLESTON. Dom Roger Hudleston died suddenly at Downside early on Wednesday morning, August 5th, of a heart attack, aged 62. He had been for a few weeks rest to Cheltenham but, not feeling well, returned to Downside on the 4th, and although he looked ill, he was, as usual with him, quite cheerful. He was found dead in his bed next morning. With him the Abbot and Community of Downside lose a man of exceptional gifts and ability, whose many services to the house cannot be easily supplied.
Gilbert Roger Hudleston, son of William Hudleston, was born at Hutton John, Penrith, Cumberland, on December 27th, 1874, of an ancient family and long staunchly Catholic (though he was not of the Catholic branch)—the same to which belonged Father John Hudleston, O.S.B., who reconciled Charles II to the Church on his deathbed. He was educated at Welling-ton College 1888-1891; then, after two years as an articled clerk to a legal firm, he entered Keble College, Oxford, in 1895. On January 8th, of the following year, he was received into the Church in London, receiving his first Communion from Pope Leo XIII. He first came to Downside in 1896, and two years later took the habit, making his profession on September 6th, 1899. He was ordained priest at Downside on September 24th, 1904, thereafter filling many minor offices in the house, till, in 1916 he was appointed Headmaster of the School at Ealing. A year later he became a chaplain to the forces, and was stationed at Salonika. From 1924 to 1931 he was in charge of the mission at Little Malvern, which he was obliged to resign owing to heart trouble, which disabled him from the service of that hilly district. At the time of his death he held the responsible office of Economus of the funds pertaining to the missions, or parishes, served from Downside. Dom Roger had also conspicuous literary gifts, and was for a time the editor of Messrs. Burns Oates & Washbourne's " Orchard Series." Last year he published The Spiritual Letters of Abbot Chapman.
His loss will be felt by many friends outside the circle of his own brethren, but hardly by any so grievously as by them; for he was in every way an excellent community man, regular, cheerful, and ever ready and able to do a service and step into a breach. R.I.P.
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Clothed: 3 Sep 1898 at Belmont
Professed: 6 Sep 1899
Sol.Prof: 30 Sep 1902
Ordained: 24 Sep 1904
Father: William Hudleston
Mother: Laura Taylor
Educ: Wellington
Missions: – Norton St Philip 1913 – Bath 1923-24 – Little Malvern 1924--31.
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Besides the many Catholic spiritual works authored and edited by Dom Roger Hudleston, it should be noted here that he wrote ghost stories under the pseudonym Roger Pater. See: Mystic Voices (London: Burns & Oates, 1923) and My Cousin Philip (London: Burns & Oates, 1924).
Requiescat in pace!
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