Stonyhurst down the


of his Lancashire home sealed the fate of both a magnificent Ribble Valley estate and an unshakeable Jesuit mission. The college had been


T


he lynchpin in the past of Stonyhurst College is Mr Thomas Weld, whose gift


THE PAST


founded 200 years earlier at St Omer, France, by Somerset-born Fr Robert Persons with a £432 grant from Philip II to educate the sons of English Catholics.


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Jesuits, which led to the execution in England of s e v e ra l Stonyhurst alumni, compelled the col­ lege to move twice in the 18th century, to Bruges and Liege. Mr Weld a c t ua l l y


Hostility towards the


attended the school in Bruges. His family had inherited the Stonyhurst estate through the Duch-


Anya Holdsworth 1986-88 Final year medical stu- d e n t a t N ew c a s t le


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old boys^ rold girlsi, and y


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Sarah Knight


1987-89 Final year student of French a t Nottingham University


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ess of Norfolk, whose father had been the last male Shireburn to own the


SKATERS on the pond in the winter of 1857-8, reproduced from one of the first-ever i n


estate. When she died a child­


less widow, everything passed to her cousins, the Weld family, of Lulworth,


Dorset. Since neither Mr Weld


actually dates back to 1372, he offered the estate as a refuge when the col­ lege fled to England in


1794. Thus, the past of the


nor his relatives ever lived at Stonyhurst, where the first evidence of a building


estate — thought even to have played host to Oliver Cromwell — and that of the Jesuit college became intertwined. Stonyhurst College, m turn, began to play its own


photographs, taken by R. Fenton par t in Ribble Valley community also said Mass


history. A major landowner and


employer, the college was responsible for various social and religious obliga­ tions, including the alms­ houses at Kemple End, which were later moved stone by stone to their present site in Hur s t


Green.Members of the Jesuit


for villagers in St Peter’s Church and at Billington, Chaigley, Chipping, Dut­ ton, Sabden and Clitheroe, where in 1850 they opened St Michael and St John’s Church.


history as well, boasting the first public building to be lit by gas in 1811 and times


Stonyhurst has made


NUMEROUS graduates o f S to n y h u r s t have gone on to enter the ranks of the rich and famo u s a ro u n d th e


world.Old boys in c lu d e novelist and Sherlock Holme s c r e a to r S i r Ar thur Conan Doyle, a c t o r C h a r l e s L a u g h to n , H e r b e r t Walker, after whom the Walker Cup was eslab- l i s h e d , B r e n d a n O’Fr ie l , governor of Strangeways Prison at the t ime of the 1990 r iots and (pictured, clockwise from bottom left) Titus Oates, per­ jure r and inventor of the Popish Plot, racing driver George Eyston an d P o e t L a u r e a t e Alfred Austin.


employing Mr J. L. McA- dam to construct one of the first macadamised roads between Hodder Bridge and Hurst Green. The college is also home


to libraries and a museum containing books, relics and other items, harking back to the centuries before its arrival at Stony­ hurst and even earlier


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