Person DS/UK/1768 Barrow; Robert (1928-2022); Jesuit Priest Barrow Robert 1928-2022 Jesuit Priest Male Bob Barrow DS/UK/1507 Born 9 December 1928. Entered the British Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1954. Ordained as a Roman Catholic priest [31 July] 1963. Died 23 November 2022.

Bob was born in Upminster, Essex, on 9th December 1928. He was educated at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill, and then took a Teachers’ Certificate at St Mary’s Training College in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. He was then called up to the army for his National Service, and joined the Education Corps, teaching the children of the British occupying forces in Trieste for 18 months. After being demobbed, he taught at St Ignatius, Stamford Hill, until he entered the novitiate at Harlaxton in 1954, taking his first vows there two years later. (His younger brother Michael had joined the Society six years earlier.) Bob studied philosophy in Heythrop in Oxfordshire between 1956 and 1959, and theology there from 1960 to 1964, with a year between these studying mathematics and physics at the University of London. He was ordained with Michael in Heythrop in 1963 and, after tertianship in St Beuno’s under Paul Kennedy, was sent to what was then British Guiana to teach for a year at St Stanislaus College in Georgetown. In 1966 he took a Master’s degree in Education (Student Counselling) at Fordham University in New York. He then returned to St Stanislaus in what was by then Guyana, where he taught physics and offered student counselling until 1974. He was then made Mission Superior, a post he held until 1980. In that year he became Superior and parish priest of the Sacred Heart community in Georgetown, returning to the UK for a sabbatical at Craighead Retreat House in Bothwell in 1985. The following year he was assigned to the Brickdam community in Georgetown, and over the next three years worked variously as psychological counsellor, spiritual director, vocations’ promotor, regional treasurer and novice-master for Guyana. A period of sick leave in the UK followed, after which he went to Port Mourant in the Corentyne District of Guyana as Superior and parish priest. 1995 saw a brief return to Brickdam, but the following year he was assigned to Spanish Town in Jamaica as assistant to the novice-master. By 1997 he was back at the Sacred Heart in Georgetown, working on the parish staff there, and two years later became parish priest at Plaisance, on the coast south of Georgetown, and regional treasurer. In 2004 he became Superior of the houses in Georgetown and the East Coast. He moved to the Arrupe House community in Georgetown in 2010, continuing his work as treasurer and undertaking pastoral ministries, and praying for the Church and the Society from 2017 until his death. Bob died 23 November 2022 at around 2.00pm in Georgetown, Guyana. He was 93 years old, in the 68th year of religious life Member of the British Province of the Society of Jesus Brother to Barrow; Michael (1930-); Jesuit Priest Email sent by Paul Nicholson SJ on 23 November 2022; Catalogue of the Provinces Britain & Ireland and the Region of the European Low Countries 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\Rsomerset 25/11/2022 CURIA\Rsomerset 25/11/2022 3f8db222-5500-4383-9405-98910059302c