Gents Mag 1819 part 1 p.488

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1819 part 1 p.488
obituary   W Strickland
	Obituary, W Strickland obituary ... 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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