Person DS/UK/1550 Hughes; Gerard Joseph (1934-2021); Jesuit Priest Hughes Gerard Joseph 1934-2021 Jesuit Priest Male Gerry Born 6 June 1934 in Wallington, Surrey. Entered the British Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1951. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 15 July 1967. Final vows in the Society of Jesus 15 August 1973. Died 2 November 2021, Boscombe.

Gerard (Gerry) J Hughes was born on 6th June 1934 in Wallington, Surrey. He was educated at St Aloysius College in Glasgow, and joined the Jesuit novitiate in Harlaxton in 1951, taking his First Vows there two years later. After a year’s juniorate at Manresa in Roehampton, he studied for a licentiate in philosophy for two years at Heythrop in Oxfordshire, followed by a third year back in Roehampton. A year of Certificate of Education studies in Roehampton followed. Between 1958 and 1962 he took a Master’s in Classical Mods and Greats at Campion Hall, then taught Greek and Latin in Beaumont College as regency. Next came an STL in theology at Heythrop, at the end of which, in 1967, he was ordained. That year he started doctoral studies in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was one of the first professors at Heythrop in London in 1970, lecturing in moral theology, and living first in Cavendish Square and later in Southwell House and then Sherwin House in Osterley and Owen House. In 1973 he became Dean of Philosophy at Heythrop, attending GC32 the following year. Between 1982 and 1988 he combined his work at Heythrop with the post of Vice-Provincial for Formation. In 1992 he had a sabbatical, teaching for a semester at Santa Clara in the USA. He was appointed Vice-Principal of Heythrop in 1995, and then in 1998 became Master of Campion Hall, a position he held until 2006, tutoring in philosophy in Oxford. He continued in Oxford as a Fellow in Philosophy until moving to Boscombe in 2018, where he remained until his death. Gerry was a prolific writer, with more than forty publications listed on the Province data-base. He received a DLitt from Heythrop in 2009. He died Tuesday 2nd November 2021, in the Corpus Christi Jesuit Community house in Boscombe. Kevin Fox SJ and one of the carers were with him. He was 87 years old, in the 71st year of religious life, and had been in failing health for some time. Member of the British Province of the Society of Jesus Catalogue of the Provinces Britain & Ireland and the Region of the European Low Countries 2021; email from Fr Paul Nicholson SJ (Socius) 3 November 2021. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes user 08/11/2021 user 13/07/2022 301d19e5-e6f5-4f54-ae7f-79c1d41ca1b3