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5 unusual facts about Stonyhurst College


Franciszek Kareu

In this period, the Rector of Stonyhurst (England) asked if the School might be allowed to affiliate itself with the Society in Russia.

Joseph Bayma

At Stonyhurst College he took up philosophy and taught it for some seven years.

Mother Mary More

Mother More helped English Jesuits and their pupils ejected from their school in Bruges (the predecessor of Stonyhurst College) by the Emperor Joseph II in 1772.

Preston and Longridge Railway

Stonyhurst College would be within a mile of the line and would be able to use it to bring in supplies as well as pupils.

The Riff Raff Element

The ancestral home of the Tundishes was actually Stonyhurst College, a Roman Catholic public school near Clitheroe, Lancashire.



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