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FRANK BROADBENT, the architect, has died at the age of 73. Among his works are the new Prinknash Abbey and the restored Tyburn Convent. He was born in 1909 and educated at Mount St Mary's School, where the fifth generation of Broadbents is now being educated. He was the son of Henry Broadbent, who, with his brother, also Frank, were, according to modern research, the models for Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem The Brothers. He was a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre and of St Gregory. Churches he designed Include: Our Lady, Queen of Peace, East Sheen: the Holy Spirit, Fetcham; St Pius X, New Malden; St Theodore, Cranbrook; St John the Evangelist, Tadworth; the Holy Name, Claygate; St Anne's, Kingston Hill; Our Lady of Dover, Buckland; St Margaret ClItherow, Dulwich, and St Thomas More, Knebworth. Bishop Tripp presided at his Requiem at Our Lady's, East Sheen, with the Abbot of Prinknash, priests from Mount St Mary's and of I he diocese.
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