Person DS/UK/1877 Dunn; Joseph (1746-1827); Jesuit Priest Dunn Joseph 1746-1827 Jesuit Priest Male Daddy Dunn Born 19 March 1746 in Catterick, Yorkshire. Entered the Society of Jesus on 7 September 1764. Ordained in 1771 in Liege. Died 19 November 1827 at Preston.

Fr Joseph Dunn (vere Hart) was born 19 March 1746, in Catterick (Yorkshire), England. He entered the English Province of the Society of Jesus 7 September 1764. He was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, at Liege, in 1771. He was a Master the ‘Little’ College, Bruges, at the time of its destruction by the Austro-Belgic Government in 1773, and accompanied the late Jesuits to Liege, where he taught philosophy in the new English Academy established there. He was appointed to the Preston mission as assistant to Fr Nicholas Sewall SJ, and arrived there 1 May 1776, having been previously chaplain for a short time at Callaly Hall, near Alnwick (Northumberland). He may be regarded as the chief founder of the Preston mission. He built the chapel and presbytery of St Wilfrid’s, opened on 4 June 1793. He died suddenly at St Wilfrid’s, 19 November 1827. A tablet, with an inscription by Fr Charles Brooke SJ, was erected to his memory in St Wilfrid’s chapel. Member of the English Province of the Society of Jesus Br Henry Foley, Volume 7, Part 1, Records of the English Province of the Soceity of Jesus (London: Burns and Oats, 1883), 215-216; Br Henry Foley, Volume 7, Part 2, Records of the English Province of the Soceity of Jesus (London: Burns and Oats, 1883), 956 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 14/11/2023 CURIA\mallen 07/12/2023 79c1dd49-7e21-458d-812b-016ab779704f