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See also:FRANCIS See also:SYLVESTER See also:MAHONY (18o4-1866)
, known as " See also:Father See also:Prout," Irish See also:priest and author, son of a woollen manufacturer, was See also:born in See also:Cork in 1804
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His classical See also:education was chiefly obtained at a Jesuit See also:college at See also:Amiens, and after studying in See also:Paris he entered the Jesuit college at See also:Rome and was admitted into the Society of Jesus
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He served inv See also:Switzerland and at Clongoweswood, See also:Ireland, where he was See also:prefect of studies and subsequently See also:master of See also:rhetoric
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Here he was involved in scandals that led to his resignation
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On going to See also:Italy he was told at See also:Florence that he was expelled from the Society
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He succeeded, however, in obtaining priest's orders at Rome in 1832, and returned to Ireland, but subsequently went to See also:London, officiating for some See also:time in the See also:chapel of the Bavarian See also:Legation
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While there he See also:fell in with See also:
The last twelve or fifteen years of his life were spent in Paris, whence he supplied the Globe with a See also:series of piquant letters on the incidents of the See also:day
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He died in Paris on the 18th of May 1866
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The Reliques of Father Prout were collected from Fraser's Magazine and published in two volumes in 1836; The Final Reliques of Father Prout, chiefly extracted from the Daily News and the Globe, were edited by See also:Blanchard See also:Jerrold in 1876, and an edition of his See also:works, edited by See also: |
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