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The Jesuit contribution to science and technical education in late-nineteenth-century Liverpool

Pages 353-368 | Received 12 Dec 1985, Published online: 22 Aug 2006

  • See articles in Annals of Science by Roderick G.W. Stephens M.D. Private Enterprise and Chemical Training in Nineteenth Century Liverpool 1971 27 85 93 ‘Nineteenth-Century Ventures in Liverpool's Scientific Education’, 28 (1972), 61–86; ‘Science and Secondary Education in Nineteenth-Century Liverpool’, 31 (1974), 131–63; and by G. Kitteringham, ‘Science in Provincial Society: The Case of Liverpool in the Early Nineteenth Century’, 39 (1982), 329–48.
  • See Roderick G.W. Stephens M.D. Science and Secondary Education in Nineteenth Century Liverpool Annals of Science 1974 31 131 163 (p. 144).
  • 1842 . Report to the Sacred Congregation ‘De Propaganda Fide’ recommending the opening of a Jesuit church, house and college in Liverpool Archives of the Sacred Congregation ‘De Propaganda Fide’, Rome, SCPF, Acta 1842, Vol. 205, f. 50.
  • October 1842 . Liverpool Mercury October , 21
  • 1912 . D.N.B., Second Supplement 1901–1911 99 – 99 . London
  • Sutcliffe , E.F. 1957 . Bibliography of the English Province of the Society of Jesus 1773–1953 65 – 70 . Roehampton
  • For an account of the career of Fr Gallwey see D.N.B., Second Supplement 1901–1911 London 1912 70 70
  • Archivum Provinciae Angliae Societatis Jesu (Archives of the English Province of the Society of Jesus, 114 Mount Street, London W1) [hereafter cited as APASJ] Epist. Gen. 1873–1884 f. 46 f. 46 Beckx to Galley, 10 April 1875.
  • APASJ, 832 St Francis Xavier's College Beadle's Logbook 1876 March [hereafter cited as Beadle's Logbook], 3 and APASJ, 30/6/6/1, Notebook of Fr Richard Vaughan, SJ [hereafter cited as Vaughan Notebook], 17 December 1876.
  • March 1876 . St Francis Xavier's College Beadle's Logbook March , [hereafter cited as Beadle's Logbook], 3
  • Barff, who had formerly been an Anglican curate in Hull, had taught at the Jesuit boarding school at Beaumont, Old windsor, after joining the Roman Catholic Church. For an account of his work at Kensington see McClelland V.A. Cardinal Manning: His Public Life and Influence London 1962 115 116 and the same author's English Roman Catholics and Higher Education 1830–1903 (Oxford 1973), p. 303.
  • December 1876 . Vaughan Notebook December , (footnote 9), 17, 20 and 22 Manning did not want any Jesuit involvement in his new college at any level following a serious difference of opinion with the Jesuits in 1873. Vaughan's exclusion was not for personal reasons but rather to avoid the presence of one whom Manning considered a potential spy in the camp.
  • December 1876 . Vaughan Notebook December , (footnote 9), 22 and general summary for 1877.
  • For an account of early nineteenth-century scientific education at Stonyhurst, see Holt G. The March of Science The Stonyhurst Magazine 1958 211 217 and M. Larkin, ‘Science at Stonyhurst: the first hundred years’, The Stonyhurst Magazine (1981), pp. 26–32, 116–23.
  • See submission to the Taunton Commission on studies at Stonyhurst in 1865 in Schools Enquiry Commission, v Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commissioners, Part II London 1868 326 327
  • September 1877 . Vaughan Notebook September , (footnote 9), 5
  • January 1879 . Beadle's Logbook January , (footnote 9), 29 This logbook contains the only known surviving references to the courses of evening lectures.
  • APASJ, 6/4/3/4 St Francis Xavier's College Visitation Book: Memorials of Visitation 1850–1961 [hereafter cited as Visitation Book].
  • See APASJ, 51/3/7 Diary of Fr George Porter, SJ 1877 July 7
  • September 1878 . Beadle's Logbook September , (footnote 9), 23
  • May 1893 . The Xaverian May , 264 – 264 . (the monthly magazine of St Francis Xavier's Parish and College) and January 1902, p. 19.
  • May 1893 . The Xaverian May , 264 – 264 . The competition was open to the three Jesuit boarding-schools, Stonyhurst, Mount St Mary's, near Chesterfield, and Beaumont, Old Windsor, as well as to St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool. The small Jesuit day-schools at Preston and Glasgow, and the newly-opened Wimbledon College did not take part in the competition at this date.
  • August 1898 . The Xaverian August , 116 – 116 .
  • August 1890 . The Xaverian August , 119 – 119 .
  • October 1894 . The Xaverian October , 150 – 150 . August 1895, p. 314.
  • June 1891 . The Xaverian June , 279 – 279 .
  • July 1893 . The Xaverian July , 295 – 295 .
  • August 1890 . The Xaverian August , 119 – 119 .
  • August 1895 . The Xaverian August , 315 – 315 .
  • August 1895 . The Xaverian August , 315 – 315 .
  • APASJ, AI/4, Tarleton to Purbrick, 3 July 1888
  • For a full account of the work of this body see McCaughley D.T. The Technical Instruction Committee in Liverpool 1890–1903 University of Liverpool 1973 unpublished M.Ed. thesis
  • September 1891 . The Xaverian September , 329 – 329 . For details of the other Liverpool institutions which received grants, see J. A. Hall, ‘A Historical Survey of Science Instruction in Liverpool’, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Liverpool, 1930, p. 94.
  • February 1892 . The Xaverian February , 23 – 23 . Fr Donnelly's success in securing the £150 grant was duly reported back to the Jesuit General; see Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu (Archives of the Jesuit General, Borgo Santo Spirito, Rome, hereafter cited as ARSJ), Anglia 1007, v, 7, Fr Thomas Murphy to Fr General Martin, 18 March 1892. The one man who had done so much to foster the teaching of chemistry at the College since 1877, Fr Richard Vaughan, fell ill in October 1892 and was obliged to retire. A lay master was appointed in his place and Vaughan spent the remainder of his days quietly in the Jesuit community at Liverpool, where he died in 1899 at the age of 72. See The Xaverian, November 1892, p. 168 and APASJ, 14/2/6, f. 226.
  • April 1893 . The Xaverian April , 246 – 246 .
  • August 1890 . The Xaverian August , 118 – 118 . The Rector of the College, Fr Thomas Murphy, judged the results sufficiently noteworthy to be reported to the Jesuit General. See ARSJ, Anglia 1007, v, 5, Murphy to Fr General Anderledy, 25 February 1891.
  • Table based on information in The Xaverian 1894 November 168 168 Besides the classes indicated, there were also special classes in mathematics on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
  • December 1896 . The Xaverian December , 189 – 189 .
  • August 1896 . The Xaverian August , 125 – 125 .
  • August 1890 . The Xaverian August , 119 – 119 . Donnelly's interest in comparative education was genuine. In the summer of 1892 he undertook a tour of inspection of the Jesuit colleges in Belgium, from which the Jesuit Rector at Liverpool expected ‘important results to ensue’. See The Xaverian, August 1892, p. 117.
  • February 1897 . The Xaverian February , 221 – 222 .
  • September 1898 . The Xaverian September , 131 – 131 .
  • May 1898 . St Francis Xavier's College Visitation Book: Memorials of Visitation 1850–1961 May , 25
  • For a biography of Walton see D.N.B., Supplement 1901–1911 586 587 By the time of his death in 1910, Walton was to see the benefit of his gift as considerable numbers of Old Xaverians obtained the highest honours in the Science Faculty of the newly constituted University of Liverpool.
  • November 1901 . The Xaverian November , 373 – 374 .
  • November 1901 . The Xaverian November , 373 – 374 .
  • ARSJ, Anglia 1018, IV, 11, Hayes to Fr General Martin, 12 June 1899
  • ARSJ, Anglia 1018, IV, 12, Hayes to Martin, 3 October 1899
  • August 1900 . The Xaverian August , 128 – 128 .
  • January 1902 . The Xaverian January , 17 – 18 .
  • 1971 . Annals of Science , 27 : 92 – 92 .
  • For a full account of the educational work of the Jesuits in nineteenth-century Liverpool, see the present writer's The Contribution of the Society of Jesus to Secondary Education in Liverpool: the history of the development of St Francis Xavier's College, c. 1840–1902 University of Hull 1984 (unpublished Ph.D. thesis

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