Father Laurence Kelly

born 16 January 1915 in Edinburgh
died 8 February 1987 aged 72 at Workington
clothed 12 November 1933
solemn profession 1 November 1937
ordained 31 March 1940

Educated at Fort Augustus, Father Laurence worked at missions in Warrington and Workington

In 1940, he was torpedoed with a party of evacuee children on their way to Canada 1940.

In the school, he was an active staff member as a gamesmaster and housemaster.


Father Laurence’s headstone in the monk’s cemetery

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