Person DS/UK/949 Carty; Robert (1917-2016); Jesuit Priest Carty Robert 1917-2016 Jesuit Priest Male Born 28 February 1917 Cambuslang (Lanarkshire). Entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1934. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 9 September 1949. Final vows in the Society of Jesus 21 March 1978. Died 16 October 2016 Boscombe.

Robert Carty was born on 28 February 1917 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, and was educated at St Aloysius' College in Glasgow. He joined the Society of Jesus novitiate at Roehampton in 1934. He studied philosophy in Heythrop and taught as a regent in Preston Catholic College during World War, 1939-1945, and then took a Master's degree in Chemistry in Oxford. After his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest on 9 September 1949, he returned to Preston to teach and was appointed headmaster there in 1956. Between 1961 and 1968, Fr Carty taught in St George's College in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia, becoming successively Prefect of Studies and then headmaster. Returning to England in 1968, he became headmaster in Wimbledon College as it changed from a grammar to a comprehensive school, and held that post until 1975. From 1976 to 1978, he was Rector and parish priest in St Aloysius' Church, Glasgow, while taking overall responsibility for the work of the Society in Scotland. Fr Carty's decade in South Africa from 1979 included a term as mission superior, before he returned to the UK in 1989 to spend a short time on the staff at St Ignatius, Stamford Hill. In 1991, he moved to Enfield as Superior and the Provincial's advisor on ageing and health. While at Copleston House in London (1997-2007) he directed the Spiritual Exercises, until he joined the Corpus Christi Jesuit Community in Boscombe, where he died on 16 October 2016. At the time of his death he was the oldest Jesuit in the British Province, having celebrated his 99th birthday in February and completed 82 years in religious life. Member of the British Province of the Society of Jesus. 'Jesuits & Friends' issue 95 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 RSomerset 25/11/2016 RSomerset 25/11/2016 f6193839-eeba-4cea-9792-9efd27b04a5a