Lifelong supporter of the YCW

Obituaries
A FORMER chaplain to the Young Christian Workers, Canon Edward Mitchinson, died following a heart attack on 9 April. He was 79. Ted' Mitchinson was born in Brockley, south London, in 1913, and was educated at the junior seminary at Mark Cross, before studying for the priesthood at the Propaganda College in Rome. Ordained in 1938, for the Southwark archdiocese, he first served as assistant priest in Gravesend for four years.
In 1942, he was appointed as YCW chaplain, which he held for 16 years, encouraging the movement during a crucial part of its development. He then became parish priest at St Mary Magdalen's, Wandsworth in 1958, although retained his YCW links as diocesan chaplain.
Following a visit to South Africa, he was granted leave to serve there from 1970, undertaking a series of posts in the Cape and Natal. Returning in 1982. he retired as chaplain to St Anne's Court in West Wickham, and then St Mary's, Worthing, in 1988.
CANON Vincent Buckley of the Clifton Diocese died on 6 April at St Angela's Convent in Bristol. He was 82. Canon Buckley was born and brought up in Fishponds,
Bristol, with his brothers, Mgr Joseph Buckley and the late Fr Bernard Buckley CM. He studied with their two sisters priesthood at St Sulpice Seminary, Paris, and was ordained in June 1933 at St Joseph's, Fishponds.
He was first appointed as curate at St Osmund's, Salisbury, and four years later became priestin-charge at Langport, Somerset.' From 1942 he served as parish priest in Frome and then the region around Minehead. Canon Vincent became dean in Taunton in 1967 and became a Canon in 1976.
He retired to be chaplain to St Edward's special school, Melchet Court, in 1980t. His requiem Mass was at Clifton Cathedral.