OBITUARY

FR JAMES WALSH S. who died on 20 February at the age of 66, was one of the best known experts in the field of English spirituality arid a vice-postulator of the canonisation cause of the English and Welsh martyrs.
Born in Accrington, he was educated at Preston Catholic College and joined the Jesuit novitiate in 1938. He studied at Heythrop College, Oxon and at Campion Hall. Oxford. taught at Wimbledon CoLlege (1944-46) and was ordained in 1952. He studied for his doctorate in ascetical theology at the Gregorian University in Rome.
In 1963 he was appointed vicepostulator of the cause of the English and Welsh martyrs and became editor of the new Jesuit review of spirituality The Way. In 1966 he went to Heythrop College, Oxon. as director of the Institute of Spirituality.
In 1970 his long years of work for the Martyrs' cause came to fruition with the canonisation of the forty martyrs of England and Wales. In 1971 he became director of the Province Institute of Spirituality and professor of Spiritual Theology at Heythrop College, London.
BEN TURNER. His Eminence Cardinal Basil Hume, Bishop Harvey and other local priests, concelebrated Mass in the Chapel of St Dominic's Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-theHill. Middlesex, on Wednesday 19 February 1986 in thanksgiving for Ben Turner's 50 years of service in education. in the presence of the Mayor and Mayoress of Harrow. Members of the family were present together with Mrs Kathleen O'Gorman and representatives of the Westminster Diocesan Education Service,
Ben Turner also gave generously of his time to St Vincent's Hospital. where he was Chairman of the Board of Management. His services to Catholic education and other voluntary work were marked by the award of the Papal Knighthood. To mark the occasion, the Governors and teaching staff of the College presented Ben Turner with a Papal Blessing. He died on Thursday 20 February. Relatives assure us that Mr Turner saw the papal blessing before he died. His funeral service was held
on Wednesday 26 February in the Chapel of St Vincent's Hospital. The principal celebrant was Bishop Konstant of Leeds. GABRIEL GRISEWOOD, third son of Lt Col Harman Grisewood died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 17 February. aged 76. During the War he served in the Cyprus Regiment in North Africa, and afterwards as administrator of Cyrenaica. He worked as an Estate Factor in Scotland and in Berkshire and eighy years ago, retired to Dalmally in Argyllshire with his wife Olive. Their house was used as a Mass Centre for the Parish of Taynuilt. The Medugorje Centre in Scotland is run from the house by their daughter and son-in-law.
CANON JOHN JOSEPH CASHMAN, former parish priest of Fishguard, died on the 17 February at Fishguard where he had lived in retirement since February. 1978.
Canon Cashman was born in Dowlais on the 28 December, 1908_ He studied at St Mary's College, Aberystwyth and the Vert English College, Rome. and was ordained in Rome on the 10 July. 1932.