OBITUARY

Archbishop spent life in Nigeria
rirHE retired Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria, the Most Rev. Leo Hale Taylor, has died in a Lagos hospital after a short illness. He was 76.
Although he was born in Montevideo, Minnesota, U.S.A., his parents were English and he was brought to Yorkshire when still a baby. He trained at St. Joseph's Seminary at Blackrock, Cork, and was also a graduate of University College. Cork. He retired from his Archbishopric at the end of July this year, and announced that be intended to spend his retirement in Nigeria.
Sir Lawrence Byrne SIR LAWRENCE BYRNE, a retired High Court judge, died at his home in Halstead, Essex, on Monday, aged 69.
His last major case as a judge was the historic "Lady Chatterley" trial. When a barrister he appeared for the prosecution in the trial of William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw").
Sir Lawrence was called to the Bar in 1918 and was Recorder of Rochester from 1939 to 1945, when he became a judge of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. He later transferred to the Queen's Bench Division.
After his retirement in 1960 he was appointed by the Jockey Club to be a member of a committee investigating the doping of horses.
Mother Gertrude Wyffels
Mother Gertrude Wyffels, Prioress-General of the Olivetan Benedictine nuns. died suddenly while visiting the Order's convent in Florence last week.
Mother Gertrude was born at Eindhoven, Holland in 1896 and was professed in 1927. She became Prioress-General in 1932.
She was associated in Antwerp with the Christian Unity work of Dom Bosschaerts, former secretary to Archbishop Roncalli.
She founded the Regina Pacis Convent at Cockfosters, Middx., the same time that he founded the parish there.
Fr. W. Bradley, C.SS.R.
Fr. William Bradley. C.SS.R., died at St. Mary's, Clapham, last week at the age of 77.
Born at Clapham in 1888, Fr. Bradley joined the Redemptorists in 1908 and was ordained in 1913. He spent many years in Sunderland and Birmingham and also worked in the Hebrides.