OBITUARIES Dom Gerard Sitwell OSB A FORMER MASTER of St

Benet's Hall, Oxford, Gerard Sitwell has died at the age of 86.
Born Francis Sitwell in 1906, he was educated at Ampleforth, where he was head boy, and at St Benet's, Oxford, where he read English. After studying theology at Blackfriars, Oxford, he eventually returned to Ampleforth as a priest in 1933, and taught there and was in charge of the college farms.
He held the post of Master at St Benet's between 194764, where he lectured first on the English mystics, although his interests later turned to Benedictine history. In his mid-50s, he moved north to become parish priest at Warwick Bridge, Cumbria, then Ampleforth, between 1969 and 81. Fr Robert Woodbridge
A PRIEST WHO had the rare distinction of working in only two dioceses, Robert Woodridge has died at the age of 88.
Although born in Barnstaple, Devon, he was ordained for the Nottingham diocese at Derby in 1935. During the War, he served as chaplain to University College, Nottingham (later Nottingham University), and eventually became parish priest at Earl Shilton, Leicestershire, in 1963.
In 1978, Fr Woodbridge was appointed to St Michael's, Hathersage, in Derbyshire, overseeing its transfer to the new diocese of Hallam two years later. After retirement, he continued to work in Hathersage, until rheumatism forced him to a nursing home at Ednaston, Derby.
Fr Andrew Morley
A PRIEST OF the Westminster diocese, Andrew Morley was brought up in the Cathedral parish where he served on the altar and sang in the choir.
He was educated at Finchley Catholic Grammar, and at Allen Hall. Ordained in 1963, he served as assistant priest at Swiss Cottage, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Tollington Park, Eden Grove and Westminster Cathedral from 1974.
'Dr° years later, he became parish priest at Golders Green, until 1984 when he tried his vocation with the Benedictines at Downside. In 1989, after a brief spell in East Anglia, he returned to London to serve at St Mary's, Cadogan Street.
He died at St Michael's, Ashford, on 27 December at the age of 54.