William Henry Coombes (8 May 1767 – 15 November 1850) was an English
Roman Catholic
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priest, theologian and writer.
Life
He passed his early years at
Meadgate,
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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, England, the property and for many years the residence of his uncle,
William Coombes (d. 18 April 1822), of
Douai College, Grand-Vicar of the Western District. Young Coombes went to Douai at the age of twelve, was ordained in 1791, and during the
French Revolution
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escaped (October, 1793) from
Dourlens to England.
He was a doctor of theology and co-operated with
Bishop Douglass at Old Hall seminary as professor and vice-president. From 1810 he served the mission of
Shepton Mallet
Shepton Mallet is a market town and civil parish in the Mendip District of Somerset, England, some south-west of Bath, south of Bristol and east of Wells. It had an estimated population of 10,810 in 2019. Mendip District Council is based t ...
till 1849, when he retired to
Downside monastery, where he died.
Works
His chief works are:
*"Sacred Eloquence; being Discourses from the Writings of Sts. Basil and Chrysostom, with the Letters of St. Eucherius of Lyons" (London, 1798);
*"Escape from France; with an account of the English Poor Clares from Aire, and a narrative of the sufferings and death of Pius VI" (London, 1799);
*"Life of St. Francis de Sales, from the French of Marsollier" (Shepton Mallet, 1812);
*"Spiritual Entertainments of St. Francis de Sales" (Taunton, 1814);
*"The Essence of Religious Controversy" (1827);
*"Life of St. Jane Frances de Chantal" (London, 1830).
There are other writings by Coombes on religious and political themes.
References
;Attribution
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George Oliver, ''Collectanea'', 272;
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Joseph Gillow
Joseph Gillow (5 October 1850, Preston, Lancashire – 17 March 1921, Westholme, Hale, Cheshire) was an English Roman Catholic antiquary, historian and bio-bibliographer, "the Plutarch of the English Catholics".
Biography
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1767 births
1850 deaths
18th-century English Roman Catholic priests
19th-century English Roman Catholic priests