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Purcell was born in or near to Norwich on 22 January 1912. [1] Purcell was educated at Norwich School and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge and ordained in 1938. [ 2 ] After a curacy in Headingley , Yorkshire he was raised to the position of a Minor Canon of Ripon Cathedral in that county.
Witcutt was the son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor.He studied law at the University of Birmingham, England, and around 1928 his interest in G. K. Chesterton's anti-industrial theory of Distributism led him to become a prominent contributor to Chesterton's G. K.'s Weekly publication, where he was a strong critic of the theory of the Leisure State.
William Purcell may refer to: William Purcell (d. 1834), last known survivor of HMS Bounty; William E. Purcell (1856–1928), state senator from North Dakota; William Frederick Purcell (1866–1919), arachnologist and biologist; William Gray Purcell (1880–1965), architect; William R. Purcell (born 1931), state senator from North Carolina
In the late 1950s, Fr. William Purcell, then President of All Hallows, commissioned a building to honour his predecessor, Fr. Thomas O’Donnell, C. M. O’Donnell had been renowned for a book he wrote in 1910 on the ideals and duties of priests., [2] and for his biography of Fr. John Hand. [3]
On 24 March 1897, Purcell married Anna Cambier Faure, [7] who was a close South African friend of Olive Schreiner. The Purcell's had three children, Frederick Walter Faure Purcell, Olive Margaretha Deneys Purcell and William Frederick Hertzog Purcell. Anna Purcell was a cousin of Barry Hertzog, and her sister Joey married a Smuts.
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Purcell's main challengers were former Mayor Richard Fulton and then Vice Mayor Jay West. In the general election, Purcell came up just short of an outright majority, forcing him into a runoff with Fulton, who announced he would not actively contest the ensuing runoff. The runoff still had to take place per state law, however, and Purcell won.
The first Irish Roman Catholic to serve as Lord Deputy of Ireland in nearly 200 years, Talbot quickly filled the army in Ireland with Catholic officers (hence "we will have commissions galore") and recruits, alarming the Protestants and raising the hopes of the Irish Catholic community for a restoration of their lands and political power ("by Christ and St Patrick, the nation's our own").