| Admin_History | Terence Mulvany, also known by his middle name Patrick, was born to a London Irish family on 5 October 1899. When young he lived in Holloway and attended St Ignatius’ College Stamford Hill from 1910 until 1917 when he left to join the Army as a volunteer. He served in France, Belgium, Ireland and England before he was invalided home from France in 1918. In April 1919, as soon as he was well enough, Mulvany joined the Society at Roehampton where he stayed for a year as a junior. He moved to St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst, to complete his Philosophy degree and graduated with a London BA. Following on from this, he taught for three years at Stonyhurst and began a career as a Jesuit schoolmaster. In 1929 he moved into theology and carried out his days at Heythrop where he was ordained on 9th September 1932, he went on to do his tertianship at St Bruno’s in 1933-4. Straight after his tertianship he was appointed Prefect of Studies at Mount St Mary’s and after three years became as Assistant Master. In 1939 Mulvany became Prefect of Studies at St Peter’s Southbourne where he spent two years before moving to Catholic College, Preston in 1941 where he stayed for the rest of his teaching life, finishing in 1962 when he moved to part time work editing the College magazines until 1967. Although his main work was always as classmaster of the Fifth Remove, teaching English, Latin and Religious Education, he also ran a Q-Club for amateur dramatics and choral verse as well as a model theatre club. In 1967, he was appointed to a convent of Franciscan Ministries of the Devine Motherhood in Grayshott. When the convent closed he was transferred to Mount Alvernia nursing home at Bramshott, he was relieved as his duties as chaplain when he reached 80 but continued to say a Mass every day. Mulvany said Mass for the last time on 16th July and died aged 84 on Sunday 5 August 1984. |