Francis Leader MacCarthy Willis Bund (10 May 1905 – 14 June 1980) was an Anglican cleric and Chaplain,

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and

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of Balliol College, Oxford.

Life

He was born Francis Leader MacCarthy on 10 May 1905 at

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. His father was John Leader MacCarthy, a descendant of the

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family, Princes of Carbery who was a local civil engineer, and his mother was Mary Susanna Willis Bund, the daughter of John William Willis Bund, a Worcestershire landowner and historian of the Celtic Church. He adopted the additional surnames of Willis Bund by Royal Licence in 1950 in compliance with a condition set out by his maternal grandfather to allow him to inherit family property in

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. He was educated at

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and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA 1927, MA 1932), and became an assistant master at

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. He was appointed Chaplain and Fellow of Balliol in 1945, and after serving as a college proctor also became Dean. In this role he appears to have displayed a great deal of patience and tolerance amidst the growing rebelliousness of student life in the 1960s.

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, the notorious user and later smuggler of

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was an undergraduate at Balliol, and was frequently summoned to see the dean. In his autobiography Marks recalls developing "an enormous liking and respect" for MacCarthy Willis Bund, who interceded on Marks's behalf over drug use with the College's Senior Proctor. Also amongst MacCarthy Willis Bund's charges were J. I. Packer, the Christian theologian, whose studies in philosophy of religion he supervised, and the writer

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, who also recalls the dean's tolerant approach to his duties. MacCarthy Willis Bund also became a

of All Souls College, Oxford. He married first, Joan Mildred Elton Carey (died 1948) and secondly, Roberta J. ("Jane") Dalkin (died 2016). His eldest daughter, Alison MacCarthy Willis Bund married the distinguished American academic

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who became

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at Brown University. Francis Leader MacCarthy Willis Bund died in 1980 and was buried at

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. There is a plaque dedicated to him outside the Old Dean's Room on the library staircase at Balliol.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacCarthy Willis Bund, Francis 1906 births 1980 deaths 20th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford People educated at Bedford Modern School People from Goldington