Richard Field or De la Field (1554?–1606) was an Anglo-Irish Jesuit.
Biography
Richard Field was born about 1554 to an
Old English
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family in
Corduff
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,
County Dublin
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. He studied at
Douai
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, entered the
Society of Jesus
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about 1582, and became a professed father. In April 1599 he was sent from
Flanders
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to Fathers Fitzsimon and Archer in his native country, and he became superior of the Irish Jesuit mission, displaying remarkable prudence and mildness in his office. There are still extant several of his letters which abound with interesting details of the Catholic affairs of Ireland. He died in Dublin on 21 February 1606.
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References
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* Endontes:
**Hogan's ''Ibernia Ignatiana'', i. 202
**Hogan's ''Catalogue of the Irish Province S. J.'', p. 7
**Oliver's ''Jesuit Collections'', p. 244
**Foley's ''Records'', vii. 252.
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1554 births
1606 deaths
16th-century Irish Jesuits
17th-century Irish Jesuits
Irish expatriates in France