EDMUNDSON RICHARD

Born	2 March 1754
Ordained	1783
Died	1812

Son of Richard and Ann (Moss), Fr Edmundson was born in the North of England, probably in Lancashire. He was trained at Douai and ordained in 1783. He worked initially at St Peter, Lancaster, and then in the Alston Lane, Longridge, and Ribchester area. He died in 1812 or possibly January 1813 and was buried at Fernyhalgh. Sources: Anstruther; CRS Vol 12, CRS Vol. 31.

EGBERS HENRY

Born	1864
Ordained	1896
Died	7 June 1936

Born in Utrecht, Fr Egbers came to England early in life and completed his theological studies at Ushaw in 1896. After ordination, he was sent as assistant to St James, Pendleton, then to St Ann, Ancoats, and finally to St Aloysius, Ardwick. He went as rector to St Mary, Littleborough, and then to St Peter, Greengate, Salford, 1904-1909. He served as rector at the Guardian Angels, Elton 1909-1916, and then became chaplain to Holly Mount Convent, and founder rector of the new daughter mission of St Hilda, Tottington, 1916-1922. Because of ill health, he next went to the smaller parish of Aspull, 1922-1926, but preferred the town, and returned to Salford as theparish priest of St Boniface, Salford, 1926-1936. After some years of indifferent health, he was preparing to retire when in 1936 he died, the last survivor of the band of Dutch priests who had responded to Bishop Vaughan's appeal. He was buried at Wardley Cemetery. Sources: Obituary 1937 Almanac

EGGLESMERE ADRIAN

Born	29 September 1832
Ordained	20 November 1859
Died:	date unknown

Born in Geldorp, Holland, in 1832, Fr Egglesmere was educated at Haaken, and ordained in Covington in 1859. He worked for several years in the United States of America. Bishop Vaughan brought him to the Diocese in 1875. In August he went to St Anselm, Whitworth, where he served until he retired to Holland in 1893. He completed the church tower and built the school.

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ERRINGTON GEORGEConsecrated

Born	1802
Ordained	22 December 1827
Died	19 January 1884

Trained VEC.

1849-1851	Rector Salford Cathedral until he became Bishop of Plymouth, later coadjutant to Card Wiseman. Consecrated in Salford Cathedral with Bishop Turner 25,7,1851.

Vice Rector there.
Prefect of Studies at Oscott.

1860	Papal Decree right of succession - Isle of Man.
1865	St Mary's Douglas Isle of Man. Parish Priest

Retired to Prior Park. Buried in its cloister.

Brian Plumb writes of Errington:
Son of Thomas and Katherine Errington (Dowdall), born at Clint, Marske, near Richmond, Yorkshire on 14 September 1804, educated at Ushaw and the English College, Rome, where he received honourable distinction in every examination undertaken. He was ordaind priest on 22 Demeber 1827, having been created DD cum praemio earlier in that year.

Most of his career was spent in the shadow of Wisernan. He was vice-rector of the English College from 1832 until 1840 in which year he accompanied Wiseman to Oscott, and became Prefect of Studies. He worked diligently and relieved Wiseman of much of the tedium of administration, thereby freeing him for such offices as editing the Dublin Review, and pursuing the effects of the Oxford Movement.

Errington was at all times a strict disciplinarian, punctillious in business, absolute in the application of Canon Law, and intolerant of any form of waywardness. He had a deep suspicion of inovation, loved the Garden of the Soul and the theology of Bishop Challoner, and to the average English non Catholic appeared to be the personification of reaction. Many stories exist about his blunt personality, from that of the nun who said he must have been hewn out of rock, to his telling another nun that she was unable to distinguish between having seen God in a dream, and having had a dream that she had seen God.

Short, thick-set, with a hawk-like expression which gazed through blue-lensed spectacles, after a very brief period as assistant at S.Nicholas, Liverpool in 1848, he became rector of S.John's, Salford (the future cathedral). In that church, on 25 July 1851 Errington was consecrated first bishop of Plymouth, by Cardinal Wiseman, with Archbishop Cullen (of Armagh) and Bishop Ullathorne as co-consecrators. Plymouth was a very scattered diocese, with few Catholics and many problems but this first bishop proved himself a zealous missioner though a hard task master.

In 1855, at Cardinal Wiseman's behest he was appointed coadjutor of Westminster, and titular archbishop of Trebizond. He accepted with considerable misgivings and fully aware that the Cardinal was large minded and flexible as he himself was rigid and unwilling to brook all but the letter of the 1 aw. Errington was especially hostile to Williarn George Ward (1812-1882) a layman, teaching theology at S.Edmund's College, Ware. Wisernan hoped that his coadjutor would come to appreciate Ward's many qualities and even grant them recognition. Alas, upon canonical visitation of the college, Errington's words were such as to provoke Ward's resignation, although the Cardinal refused to accept it, and cautioned his coadjutor about the dangers of holding fixed ideas; an unfortunate move considering that Errington's ancestors had clung to their faith with granite-like firmness, a fact that he himself never lost an opportunity of proclaiming.

The next difficulty to arise was when Cardinal Wiseman asked H.E.Manning (q.v.) a recent convert to form a community of Secular priests called the Oblates of S.Charles, and furthermore to entrust them with the management of the diocesan seminary. Errington protested furiously, and in this he was supported by many of the London clergy and the entire Westminster Chapter. In a complaint to Rome the Cardinal accused his coadjutor of being lacking in the Roman spirit, and alleged that priests who had attempted nothing had nothing to fear from Errington's visitations, but those who had stirred the faithful, built churches and schools, received converts, and in no way had buried their talents were the object of his every censure. Even Fr.Faber, the famous Oratorian added his voice to the complaint 'lit is a great pain to find so many obstacles to doing good", and the Dominican nuns said they would never open a house in London as long as there was any prospect of Errington becoming archbishop.

Clearly Pope Pius IX was greatly perplexed by it all and suggested to Errington that his resignation would be a service to the Catholic Church in England. Other offers were made, such as the archbishopric of Port of Spain, and a personal plea from the Pope for Errington's resignation as a special favour was extended. But Archbishop Errington protested at what he considered to be a gross injustice, said that his resignation would be a betrayal of the majority of the London clergy who looked to him for protection, refused to resign, and called Manning supercillious.

Even more perplexed the Pope appointed three Cardinals to examine the whole weighty dispute, by now filling hundreds and hundreds of sheets of foolscap. They could find no canonical fault, indeed all they were able to conclude was that Archbishop Errington had some difficulty in compatibility with his surroundings. In desparation, by an edict of 2 July 1862, the Pope removed Errington from the Westminster coadjutorhsip, an order accepted obediently but under protest that he had been defamed.

Naturally the matter did not end there. In 1865 the Westminster Chapter requested Errington as Cardinal Wiseman's successor, and when that appeal was rejected two other English bishops, Alexander Goss of Liverpool and William Hugh Joseph Clifford of Clifton, both of them scions of old English recusancy, stood steadfast in their support of the ejected coadjutor. Goss gave him hospitality, and the archbishop spent a number of years on the Isle of Man, as rector of S.Mary's Douglas. In 1874 Bishop Clifford offered a home at Prior Park, Bath, where in return for a room, meals and the attendance of a servant "iron George" as he was then known, taught theology to seminarists.

It is related how on the very day of his arrival the students were called for what he called "muscular theology" namely assisting with his unpacking and the arrangement of all his books. He was also an ardent student of geology, and when the railway line from Somerset into Dorset was under construcrtion, he would be out with his spade, searching for interesting specimens, and dispensing information among the work force.

It is also reputed that he never owned an easy chair in all his life, he certainly never used one at Prior Park, and when after a visit to Ireland and the north of England, at Christmas 1885, he returned showing signs of pnuemonia, he insisted on holding classes in his own room until his strength failed him. Archbishop Errington died on 19 January 1886 and is buried at Prior Park.

Brady, 436-437; Old Alurnnus, 112-113; E.S.Purcell 11, 75-112; Snead-Cox 1, 67-71; Tablet 30.1.1886, 179-180; 14.5.1921, 626; W.Ward, Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman.

EVERSHED DOUGLAS ST GEORGE

Born	10 January 1869
Ordained	23 February 1893
Died	15 December 1927

Fr Evershad was born in Brighton in 1869, and then moved to Aryndel where his father was served as doctor to the Duke of Norfolk. He attended St Edward's School, Oxford and trained for two years as a medical student at Guy's Hospital. He was received into the Church at the London Oratory, and entered the Carmelite Order at Kensington, being ordained as a Carmelite priest, Fr Anthony, in 1893, aged 24. After 8 years, he left the order on health grounds and entered the Salford diocese on 3 April 1901. He was sent as assistant to Mount Carmel, Blackley; then in 1904 to St Mary, Oldham, and in 1905 to St Peter and Paul, Bolton. He spent the next six years as chlain to Crumpsall Hospital, until his own health broke down and he had to take sick leave. He returned in 1915 as rector at the Holy Infant, Astley Bridge, Bolton. He served on Bolton Education Committee. In poor health, he managed to celebrate Midnight Mass, but died in his sleep on 27 December.

Sources: Obituary 1928 Almanac

Query: check year of death 1926? Also date: January 1927?

EYCK MATTHEW

Born	21 September 1858
Ordained	25 March 1881
Died	5 June 1917

Fr Eyck was born at Varandeal in Holland in 1858. One of 11 children, he had 4 other brothers priests, one a Christian Brother and two sisters Nuns. He was educated at Roermond and Raldac Colleges, being ordained at Roermond in 1881. He served as assistant at St Wilfrid, Hulme, 1881-1882 and at St Brigid, Bradford, Manchester, 1892-1896. He was appointed founder rector at St Vincent, Openshaw, 1896-1897. His health failed, and after a year un Reddish, he was appointed Chaplain at Buckley Hall, Rochdale, 1898-1899. He then went as rector to St Teresa, Irlam, 1910-1914 and to St Edward, Rusholme, 1914-1917. He succeeded Bishop Casartelli in 1903 as editor of the Illustrated Catholic Missions. In 1916 he was appointed Chief Religious Inspector of Schools. In this capacity he was visiting St Hubert, Great Harwood, when he was taken suddenly ill, and died early next morning.

Sources: Obituary 1918 Almanac; it appears he was involved in the foundation of Sedgely Park Training College, though not mentioned in the Obituary.

EYRE VINCENT

BornOrdained

Died	28 September 1850.

Educated at Ushaw.

Had been at Granby Row and Mulberry Street Manchester.

1845 to Bradford.