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Fr. Sir Alexander Strachan S.J. Bart 1727–1793
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2015
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The Scottish Mission of the Jesuits was until the end of the eighteenth century entirely separate from the English Province with its own superior, houses on the continent and funds. Scottish candidates for the Society were educated at various houses in Europe. In the year 1729, for example, there were twelve missionaries in Scotland (plus one travelling and one in England), there were seven priests in the Scots College at Douai, two in Paris, three in the Scots College at Valladolid and one in Prague. About five were studying in preparation for ordination to the priesthood in the houses of various provinces of the Society, as were four novices. It was not a large mission—there were only thirty-nine members in that year. The last member of the old Scottish Jesuit mission, Fr. John Pepper, died in 1810. Occasionally, individual Scottish Jesuits worked in England or lived in the houses of the English Jesuits on the continent. One among these was Alexander Strachan.
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1 Holt, G., English Jesuits (Catholic Record Society 70) 1984, p. 238 Google Scholar; Records of the Scots Colleges (Aberdeen 1906), p. 84.
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5 Thorpe to Plowden, undated extract from a letter f. 15A.
6 Thorpe to Plowden ff. 43v, 56v.
7 Thorpe to Plowden ff. 61, 65, 131v. James Byres was the famous guide to antiquities.
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10 English Province Correspondence f. 125. The convent was probably that of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre in Liège. James Power died at Liège in March 1788. James Poyntz alias Price was also resident in the Academy.
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