| born 12th July 1900 |
| died 30th June 1989 aged 88 |
| professed 3 April 1961 |
Br Wilfrid Atkinson, for many years a regular oblate at Fort Augustus, died in July 1989. He had been resident for a number of years in Nazareth House, Aberdeen. Before joining the Community, Br Wilfrid, who was a native of Preston, had been an Anglican monk and later tried his vocation as a Jesuit laybrother. For many years he coped with the Abbey’s plumbing and also manned the door at the Hospice, receiving visitors.
Taken from Abbey Boys by Mike Turnbull
Brother Wilfrid’s headstone in the monk’s cemetery
