OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 83, 2 January 1935, Page 9

OBITUARY

Cardinal Bourne (Received January 1, U p.m.)

London, January 1.

The death has occurred of Cardinal Bourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, who, at the end of a two years’ illness, .had been losing strength for some days.

Cardinal Francis > Bourne, itoman Catholic Archbishop Of Westminster, and successor to Cardinal Vaughan as head of the Roman Catholic Church in England, was born at Clapbam on March 23, 1861. At the time of his appointment as archbishop he was the youngest member of the Roman Catholic episcopate in England. He was the son of the late Mr. Henry Bourne, who was principal clerk in the receiver-general’s branch in the Post Office. He was educated at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, at St. Edmund’s College, Old Hall, St. Thomas’s Seminary, Hammersmith, aud the seminary of St. Sulpice, Paris. After a year at Louvain University he was made priest in 1884, and for five years he officiated as assistant priest at Blackheath, Mortlake, and West Grinstead. In 1889 he founded and was made rector of an ecclesiastical.seminary for the education of the clergy of the diocese of Southwark, acting also as professor of moral theology and Holy Scripture. In 1895 he went to Rome and was named Domestic Prelate to Pope Leo XIII. He was appointed Bishop of Epiphania in 1896, and coadjutor, with the right of succession to the See of Southwark, of which he became bishop in* 1897. on the resignation of Bishop Butt./ During Cardinal Vaughan’s long period of ill-health, he was frequently called upon to act as bis substitute. Upon Cardinal Vaughan’s death he was appointed, on August 28, 1903. by Pope Pius X, to succeed him as Archbishop at Westminster. He was made a cardinal in 1911. He was a good preacher, and had a great reputation as an administrator. He held wide and enlightened views as to the training of students for the priesthood.

Mr. Edward Hillman (Received January 1, 7 p.m.)

London, December 31. The ci ’tUb has occurred of "Mr. Edward Hillman, managing director of Billman’s Airways. After the war he purchased a motorcar which he hired out He gradually built, up motor-coach services and founded in 1932 Hillman’s Airways, which was recently formed into a public company with a capital of £150.060.