Person DS/UK/1500 Horan; Anthony (1928-2021); Jesuit Priest Horan Anthony 1928-2021 Jesuit Priest Male Tony Born 25 November 1928, Liverpool, England. Entered the British Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1952. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 31 July 1962. Final vows in the Society of Jesus 5 November 1977. Died 8 September 2021, Boscombe, England.

Tony was born in Liverpool on 25th November 1928, and was educated at St Francis Xavier’s College in the city. He studied for a BSc in Physical Chemistry at Liverpool University before entering the novitiate at Harlaxton on 7th September 1952 at the age of 23. His philosophy and theology studies were both done at Heythrop in Oxfordshire, with a regency of two years’ teaching at Preston Catholic College in between. He was ordained at Heythrop by Archbishop Grimshaw on St Ignatius Day in 1962 and then, after a fourth year of theology, made his tertianship at St Beuno’s under Fr Paul Kennedy. Between 1964 and 1977 he taught chemistry and RE at St Michael’s College in Leeds, also becoming chaplain when the diocese took over the running of the school from the Society in 1970. He next completed a year’s diploma in counselling at the University of Swansea, becoming a teacher of RE and a school counsellor at Preston Catholic College in 1978. He stayed in Preston for seven years, during which the College became the diocesan Newman College. In 1981 he was appointed as a Province Consultor, a position that he held for seven years, and he had a brief sabbatical in Guyana in summer 1983. In 1985 he moved to Loyola Hall in Rainhill as a team member and Superior of the community. While there he began his involvement with the Christian Life Communities, first as northern regional chaplain and then, from 1990, as national chaplain, a post that he held for a decade. That same year he had a sabbatical in Weston, Massachusetts and then, in 1991, joined the team at St Beuno’s. Between 1996 and 2005 he was Superior of the novitiate community in Birmingham, and Midlands chaplain for CLC, moving on in the latter year to Fam Street where he worked in spirituality in the newly-established Mount Street Jesuit Centre. Finally in 2012 he moved to Boscombe, where he continued to work in spirituality while assisting in the parish and the community until a few weeks before his death. Member of the British Province of the Society of Jesus Catalogue of the Provinces Britain & Ireland and the Region of the European Low Countries 2021; Email sent by Fr Paul Nicholson SJ (Socius), 8 September 2021 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes CURIA\mallen 14/09/2021 CURIA\mallen 25/11/2021 74ec7006-8b6c-4a66-b465-20126b6a11b3