Person DS/UK/1653 Chadwick; Francis (1801-1857); Jesuit Priest Chadwick Francis 1801-1857 Jesuit Priest Male Born 14 September 1801, Preston, England. Entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1818. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 30 November 1830. Final vows in the Society of Jesus 15 August 1835. Died 5 March 1857, Oxford, England.

Fr Francis Chadwick SJ was born in Preston, on 14 September 1801, to Francis Chadwick, of Preston and Burgh Hall (Lancashire), and his wife Margaret, daughter of Fr Thomas Whitehead, Protestant minister and Rector of Eccleston (Lancashire). He made his humanity studies at Stonyhurst College, and entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1818. In 1827 he was appointed Prefect of Studies and Professor of Rhetoric at Stonyhurst College. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 30 November 1830, by Bishop Thomas Penswick. On 12 March 1833 he was appointed Minister of Stonyhurst, on 14 January 1834 he left for Rome and was presented by the Father General to the Pope before departing for the new Calcutta mission. He sailed from Portsmouth on 31 May 1834, with Frs Richard Sumner and Hippolitus More, and Br Monier, and arrived at Calcutta on 8 October the same year. On 16 June 1835 he took possession of the house given to the Society by Mr Fattollah, and opened schools in the following July. He was professed of the four vows 15 August 1835, in the Church of Calcutta. He returned to England 9 June 1838, on account of sickness, and, after again visiting Rome, sailed from Portsmouth for Calcutta on 21 June 1839. In May 1842 he returned to England again, and, after serving the missions of Worcester (July 1842), Stockheld Park (December 1842), Holywell (1844-1846), London (1851), he died as a missioner at Oxford 5 March 1857. Member of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Br Henry Foley SJ, Volume 7 Part 1, Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (London: Burns and Oates, 1883) 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 CURIA\mallen 16/03/2022 CURIA\mallen 16/03/2022 533911e1-e5cf-4c25-96af-6fc8174abc99