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Obituary, W
Strickland
obituary
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April 23. In Poland-street, aged 87, the Rev, W.
Strickland, head of the ancient family of Strickland, of
Sizer, Westmoreland. He made over, at an early age, to his
younger brother (grandfather to the present representative
of the family, Charles Strickland Standish, esq.) the whole
of his patrimonial inheritance, reserving only a small
annuity, and retired to the English Jesuits' College at St.
Omers, where he embraced the ecclesiastical state as a
member of that society. After the suppression of the Order
in France, in the year 1763, he followed his community to
Bruges, in Flanders, and was one of the Professors in their
new College in that city; and afterwards, on their further
removal to Liege, was several years president of their
College in that Bishoprick. He lived to witness at length
the successive ruin of each of these establishments, and,
returning to his native land about 30 years since, dedicated
himself entirely to the duties of the Ministry, until an
apoplectic attack nearly deprived him, about six years
since, of his mental powers.
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