ENGLISH BENEDICTINE PROCURATORS IN CURIA
From 1621 to the restoration of the Hierarchy 1850
Provisional list: suggestions or corrections gladly received
by the Editor
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- [1608 - ? – F. Anselm Beech]
- 1621-1628 – F. Sigebert Bagshawe (L) (1625 First General Chapter of the EBC)
- 1629- 45 – F. Wilfrid Selby or Reade (G)
- 1653 – F. Hilarion Wake or Merriman (G)
- 1653- 61 – F. Bernard Palmes (G)
- 1661-65 – F. Leander Normington (G)
- 1665 – apparently vacant (appointment “left to the President and Definitors”)
- 1669 – Vacant
- 1673 – F. Augustine Latham (E)
- 1677 – Vacant
- 1681 – Vacant
- 1685-? – F. Maurus Corker (Lam)
- 1690 – F. Francis Fenwick (E)
- 1692 – F. Maurus Knightley (Lam)
- 1693 – Vacant [F. Philip Ellis (G) (“Stuart Ambassador to the Papal Court”) “refuses to support the English
Benedictines so they find a successor as Roman Agent in Claude Estiennot, the Maurist Procurator in Curia”]
- 1697 – F. Francis Watmough (L)
- 1701 – Vacant
- 1705 – Vacant
- 1709 – Vacant
- 1713 – F. Francis Moore (E)
- 1717: 1718 – F. Bennet Lawson (Lam) sent as “Fenwick’s Procurator”
- 1721 -1733 – F. Alban Dawney (Lam)
- 1733 – Vacant
- 1737-1743 – F. Bernard Wythie (G)
- 1745 – Vacant
- 1749 – Vacant
- 1754-1756 – F. Charles Walmsley (E)
- 1757-1777 – F. Augustine Walker (E)
- 1777- 1808 – F. Placid Waters or Duvivier (G)
- 1810 – Vacant
- 1814 – Vacant
- 1818 – Vacant
- 1822 – Vacant
- 1826 – Vacant
- 1830 – Vacant
- 1833 – F. Joseph Brown (G)
- 1836-40 – F. Bernard Collier (E)
- 1842-44 – F. Ambrose Prest (L)
- 1844- ? – F. Jerom(e) Jenkins (G) (back in England as missioner at Coventry by 1846)
- 1846-50 – Vacant
- 1850 – F. Maurus Hodgson (not obliged to proceed to Rome unless business required it.)
- Others still to add