Fr Francis Leander Green
Born in Monmouthshire. Professed at Lambspring 11th April 1660. Sent on the English Mission in North Province. Stationed at Brindle where he died on 8th November 1704.
Fr Joseph Wilfrid Hutchinson
Born in Northumberland. Professed at Lambspring, 7th November 1679. Sent on the English Mission in North Province in 1697 and stationed in Lancashire. Was at Brindle from 1704 until his death on 24th August 1717.
Was stationed in Lancashire at the time when Newhouse chapel and land were forfeited on 18th July 1718. On 21st September 1729 he read a renunciation of Roman Catholicism before the Bishop of Chester and later became Anglican rector of Newenden, Kent. The Bishop of Chester was Samuel Peploe who had been vicar of Preston. For a more detailed biography, click here.
Fr William Placid Naylor
Born at Scarisbrick, Lancashire. Professed at St. Lawrence's, Dieulouard, 1711. Cellarer. Sent on the English Mission in North Province. Was at Brindle from 1722(?)-69. Definitor of Province, 1733. Definitor of Regimen, 1737. Provincial of York, 1741-66. Cathedral Prior of Norwich, 1741; then of Durham, 1745; lastly of Canterbury, 1769. President-General, 1766 till his death at Dieulouard on 8th November 1772.
Fr Joseph Lawrence Hadley
Born in London, 1739. Son of John Hadley and his wife, Mary Clements. Educated at St Gregory’s. Professed at Douay, 25th March 1757. Sent on the English Mission in North Province, 1764, at Biddlestone 1764-7; Brindle 1767-1802. Retired in ill-health to Netherton; Sarnsfield, Hereford; and Liverpool where he died on 30th May 1805.
Fr James Alexius Pope
Born in Lancashire, 1755. Professed at St Lawrence’s, Dieulouard, 1776. Sent on the English Mission in North Province. Was at Beaufront 1788-93; Hesleyside 1793-7; St Mary’s Liverpool 1797-1802; Lawkland 1802; Brindle 1802-30. Retired to Southport where he died on 19th February 1837.
Born at Drax Abbey, Yorkshire, 1801. Educated at Ampleforth. Clothed at Ampleforth 22nd December 1818; professed 23rd December 1819. Ordained in minor orders 25th January 1818; sub-deacon 25th January 1819; deacon 10th June 1822; priest 11th July 1825. Sent on the Mission in the North Province to St Mary’s Liverpool 1827-9; Brindle 1829-74 where he died.
Educated at Ampleforth. Prior St Gregory’s 1869-70. Worked several parishes inc St Peter's (Seel St., Liverpool), Brindle, Grassendale, Parbold. Died 10th February 1917, aged 81.
Born at Wigan, 6th July 1832. Educated at Ampleforth. Clothed at Ampleforth 16th November 1851; professed 20th November 1852. Ordained in minor orders 13th December 1851; sub-deacon 10th April 1854; deacon 6th June 1857; priest 3rd October 1858. Prefect of students 1858-66; Sub-prior 1866-74. Sent on Mission to St Anne’s Liverpool 1874; St Peter’s Liverpool 1874-7; Easingwold 1877-9; Birtley 1879-90; St Anne’s Liverpool 1880-4; Brindle 1884-1905 where he died. Cathedral Prior of Worcester 1901.
Educated at Ampleforth. St Mary's, Workington, St Alban's, St Anne's (Liverpool) & Brindle (22 years). Died 24th October 1935 aged 87.
Warrington. Educated at Ampleforth. Superior in Oxford 1903-7. Served St Benedict's (Warrington), Merthyr Tydfil & Brindle. Died 16th July 1947 aged 72.
Worked several parishes inc Warwick Bridge, Grassendale, St Mary's (Warrington), Knaresborough, Parbold & Brindle. Died 3rd June 1950 aged 68.
Born 1886 at Halton, Lancs. Educated at Ampleforth. 1904 Habit at Belmont, 1905 Simple Vows (dispensed),1916 Tonsure & Minor Orders Bishop Talcini of S Miniato dei Tedeschi, Subdiaconate, Diaconate, Priesthood (ordained by Bishop Talcini), 1918 returned to Ampleforth, 1919 Habit (Abbot Oswald Smith), 1920 Temporary Vows (3 years), 1923 Solemn Vows, 1928 Kirbymoorside, 1936 Procurator, 1940 Parish Priest at Maryport, 1950 St Joseph's Brindle, 1962 Assistant at Brindle, 1971 (24 Dec) died (aged 85), 30 Dec buried at Brindle.
Educated at Ampleforth. Prep school 1929-41. Cardiff, Bamber Bridge, Knaresborough, Abergavenny & Brindle. Died 5th March 1974 aged 74.
Procurator. St Louis (Missouri), Bamber Bridge & Brindle. Died 3rd June 1994 aged 83.
Fr Geoffrey Lynch
Born at New Brighton. Educated at Ampleforth (Junior House). Secretary to Abbots Hume, Griffifths, Barry & Wright. Warden of Grange, Prior of St Bede's, York, Easingwold. Brindle.
Fr Aelred Burrows