Walter Romanes was born at Nigg in Ross-Shire on the [15th] January, 1910, and came to school here with his elder brother George. He was admitted to the novitiate as Brother Andrew in 1930 and ordained priest in 1938. He was an eager, active, widely-interested person, and with his quick intelligence and retentive memory he later became knowledgeable over a wide range of subjects: and he was one of the kindest and most obliging people one could meet. And all his life he was dogged by failure. Some flaw in the working of his mind, some nervous imbalance, a marked physical clumsiness whose unsuspected cause was later revealed, all these ensured that in whatever he attempted he would be unsuccessful. And so he was set to one work after another, and threw himself into each with zeal and thoroughness; and nothing went right save that those who were not too exasperated by his maladroitness were moved to admire and even love the childlike innocence of his heart. His manual awkwardness grew so bad that suspicion was aroused, and justified: he was found to be suffering from a failure of the motor nerves, and paralysis spread quickly from his extremities. When no further effort could be expected from him, all his nerviness vanished and he became tranquil and happier, it would appear, than for a long time. He bore his increasing disability without any sign of self-pity or impatience, and looked forward eagerly to his release. He died gently on the 3rd September. May he rest in peace.
WALTER ANDREW ROMANES 3 September 1960
1910 15 Jan Born Nigg Ross-shire
Educ Ampleforth
1930 22 Sep Habit at Ampleforth
1938 17 Jul Priest
Taught at Ampleforth
1940 Sep St Mary's Leyland
1942 Apr St Alban's Warrington
1949 Mar St Peter's Liverpool
1950 Sep Harrington
1951 Maryport
Jul Invalided to Scorton
1952 Jul$$ Stillorgan
1954 Mar Stroud
1959 Jun St Joseph's Whalley Range Manchester
1960 3 Sep Died at St Joseph's Whalley Range Manchester
Buried at Ampleforth