Person DS/UK/1757 Weatherhead; Bernard (1901-1982); Jesuit Priest Weatherhead Bernard 1901-1982 Jesuit Priest Male Born 23 November 1901, Barbados. Entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 5 November 1922. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest 7 September 1933. Final vows in the Society of Jesus 2 February 1936. Died 23 March 1982, Westbourne.

Bernard Wetherhead was born on the 23rd of November 1901, in Barbados. He joined the noviceship in 1922 at Roehampton and was ordained in 1933. He served as an Army chaplain for the final three years of the Second World War and after this spent much of his life in Liverpool and Lancashire, with spells of parish work at Leigh (1945-48) and S.F.X Liverpool (1954-59), eventually becoming an excurrens based mostly at Blackpool (1963-69). He also worked for a time in Yarmouth (1948-54). Following his time at Blackpool he spent six years as resident chaplain at the Stella Matutina Convent rest home at nearby Ansdell, before serving on the parish staff at St. Wilfred’s, Preston. He spent the final years of his life in Preston and later Westbourne, where he died on the 23rd of March, 1982. Member of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Obituary in Letters and Notices Vol 85 Christmas 1982 pp 137-140 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 user 20/09/2022 user 20/09/2022 38af25aa-3987-40c0-a51c-4ee9663e2878