Death of noted Jesuit astronomer

FR PATRICK TREANOR, SJ, of the English Jesuit Province, Director of the Vatican Observatory since 1970, died in Rome last Saturday at the age of 57 after a sudden collapse.
He was a well-known and respected astronomer who worked in many fields and fostered his observatory's growing reputation for inter-disciplinary studies. At the time of his death he was secretary of the Sight Preservation and Identification Group of the International Astronomical Union (1AU).
Born in London in 1920, Patrick Treanor was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, joined the Society of Jesus in 1937, and studied philosophy and theology at Heythrop College when it was in Oxfordshire.
In 1946. while still a Jesuit student, he was elected to a Skynner Senior Studentship in
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The following appointments In the Westminster archdiocese are announced: Mgr Alec Groves, retiring from Tottenham; Fr Tome Keene from Kens& New Town to Tottenham as pariah priest: Fr Peter Gerserts retiring from Ruislip to Hoddesdon; Fr John Keersey from Wapping to London Colney as parish priest; Fr Adrian Arrowsmith from London Coiney to Ruislip as parish priest: Fr John Dutton from Uxbridge to Croxley Green as parish priest; Fr Joseph Staunton from Croaley Green; Fr Patrick Carron from Poplar to Northfields as
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The Queen has approved the appointment of the Rev James Lawton Thompson, vicar of Tharnesrnead, Southwark. as the successor to Dr Trevor Huddleston, Bishop of Stepney. who shortly takes up a new episcopate in Mauritius. At 41, Mr Thompson will be England's youngest
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Dr Nicholas Lash, a Fellow of St Edmund s House Cambridge. has been elected to the Norris-Hulse Professorship of Divinity In the university. Dr Lash, who Is 44, is the first Catholic layman to hold a Cambridge Divinity Professorship.
astronomy and related branches of physics at Balliol College, Oxford.
After securing his DPhil„ he was awarded, in 1952, the year of his ordination, the Johnson Memorial Prize for an essay on "The development of a new interference technique for solar research and its application to solar wave length and intensity measurements."
In the following year he won the Henry Skynner Junior Fellowhip and became the first Jesuit to hold a fellowship at Balliol since Fr Robert Persons in the 16th century.
After four years at Campion Hall, the Jesuit hall in Oxford, where he acted as Spiritual Father, he went to the United States for two years of research in American observatories.
In 1961 he was appointed to the international Jesuit team of astronomers at the Vatican Observatory, established in 1889 by Pope Leo X111 and entrusted to the Society of Jesus, Nine years later he became its director.
The following appointments in the diocese of Shrewsbury are announced:
Mgr Provost H. R. Kelly, Chaplain to Pallotti Hall, Siddington.
Pariah priests; Fr C. Dwyer from St James, Hattersley, to St Alban's. Macclesfield; Fr R. Abbott from St George's, Whitchurch, to St Aldan's, Wythenshawa: Mgr J. Jones, SCJ, to St George's, Whitchurch; Fr D. Woodier, from St Michael's, Woodchurch, to St James, Hattersiey.
Assistant priest: Fr J. Joyce from St AP Peel Hall, n' Wwytythheernshrwishee,. to St Elizabeth's. Retired: Fr B. Lyons from St Alden's,
Wythenshawe.
Archbishop J. P. Fitzgerald, OMI, has been re-elected president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, and chairman of the Administrative Board, with Bishop S. a. Naidoo replacing Bishop J. P. Murphy as vice-president of the SACBC end the board.
Brother Gerard Gabriel McHugh, 40, a Canadian, has been elected the new Superior-General of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, formerly known as the Christian Brothers of Ireland. Fie succeeds Brother Justin Kehy, Brother McHugh has been the congregation's Provincial In Ceriada for the past five years.
Group Captain Jack Buckley has been appointed secretary of St Ann's Hospice from May 1 when the present secretary. Mr