Obituary ONE of Ampleforth's bestknown masters, Walter Shewring., has died

at the age of 84. He taught classics at the College for nearly 60 years, retiring only two years ago.
Educated at Bristol Grammar . School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Shewring became a Catholic in 1928 and went to Ampleforth to teach classics the same year. The school's much-revered headmaster, Paul Nevill, used to tell pupils that it was "a great luxury" to be taught by such a noted classics teacher.
His love of classics was not, though, confined to the classroom, and he composed much Latin and Greek prose, even publishing a volume of his .own work, Versions (Oxford .University Press).
He was also one of the editors of the Cambridge University Press Italian dictionary, for 'which he was honoured with membership of the Italian state .Cavaliere dell'ordine al Marito. But perhaps his best literary work was his translation of the Odyssey for OUP, which has sold more than 50,000 copies
since its first publication in 1980.
Shewring was involved, in his youth, with Eric Gill's community at Pigotts in Buckinghamshire, and through Gill he came to know such notables as Ezra Pound, Hilaire Belloc, Max Beerbohm, David Jones and Herbert Read. He commissioned the bookplate for Ampleforth College library from Gill, and was also chosen to edit his letters after he died.
A NUN believed to have been the oldest in Britain, Sr Mary Anna Quinlan, has died in Swansea at the age of 103.
Known as Sr Anna, she was born in Tipperary and entered her order, the Ursulines of Jesus, 80 years ago. Her first post after joining was at a school in Llanelli, Wales, where she taught shorthand. She then moved to Berwick-on-Tweed, where she taught RE, history and art for 50 years.
In 1971 Sr Anna left the north to return to Wales, and went to live at the Stella Mans home in Swansea. She died there peacefully last week, three years after receiving a papal blessing on the occasion of her 100th birthday.