| Admin_History | John Paine was born 18 December 1894 in Australia. In c1901 the family moved to south London and Paine was educated at Clapham College, a Catholic Grammar School run by the Xaverian Brothers, then at Mount St Mary’s for four years. He entered the noviceship at Roehampton in September 1914. After completing the Juniorate in 1918 he was posted to Wimbledon College and then resumed his priestly studies at St Mary’s Hall, St Beuno’s, and Heythrop from 1921 to 1928, with ordination in 1927 at his home parish church, the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon. After his tertianship at St Beuno’s he taught at St John’s, Beaumont, where he stayed for 13 years, and in 1942 went to work on the parish of St Aloysius’, Oxford. In 1946 he went to work at Wardour, where he stayed for 20 years, eventually becoming parish priest there. In 1968 he was moved to Wimbledon as a curate. Paine developed Parkinson’s disease and spent the last 18 months of his life in the care of the St Anne’s nuns. He died 29 September 1983. |