DALGAIRNS

Rev. John Dobree ( son of Wm. Dalgairns ). b. Guernsey 21 Oct. 1818; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey and Ex. coll. Ox., scholar 27 May 1837; B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842; joined J. H. Newman’s band of disciples at Little more; received into R.C. church 29 Sep. 1845, ordained at Langres in France 1846; a preacher and confe or at the London Oratory King William st. Strand 1849 to 1853 and 1856 to 1863, at Birmingham Oratory 1853–56; superior of London Oratory, Brompton 1863–65; wrote some of the lives in J. H. Newman’s Lives of the English saints ; author of The devotion to the heart of Jesus with an introduction on the history of Jansenism 1853, 2 ed. 1854; The German mystics of the fourteenth century 1858; The Holy Communion, its philosophy, theology and practice 1861 frequently reprinted, and of many articles in the British Critic , Dublin Review and Contemporary Review . d. in monastery of the Cistercians at Burge hill, near Brighton 6 April 1876. bur. in private cemetery of the Fathers of the Brompton oratory at Sydenham. Gillow’s English Catholics ii , 3–5 (1885).