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Mackin, Denis
Persona · ca.1792-1857

Denis Mackin (ca. 1792-1857), Catholic priest, was born at Ballynamona, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland, circa 1792. He was ordained a priest in Ireland circa 1818 and arrived in Newfoundland with Bishop Patrick Lambert in that year.

Rev. Mackin's first appointment was as a curate in Immaculate Conception Parish, Harbour Grace, where he served from 1818 to 1832. From 1833 to 1857, he served as the first parish priest of St. Patrick's Parish, Brigus, Conception Bay. During his pastorate at Brigus, Mackin built a parish church, which was consecrated by Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming of St. John's.

Rev. Mackin became a member of the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS) while serving in the Harbour Grace area. He also served as chairman of the Roman Catholic School Board for St. Patrick's Parish, Brigus.

In a letter to Bishop Walsh in Halifax, dated June 24 1842, Bishop Fleming referred to Mackin as his vicar general, and described him as a "genuine Irishman." On 16 November 1851, Rev. Mackin was appointed the first Dean of the Diocese of Newfoundland.

Bishop Michael Francis Howley, in his Ecclesiastical History of Newfoundland, wrote that Dean Mackin was a man of great taste who soon built his parish at Brigus into a beautiful establishment. Mackin named his farm there after the place of his birth -- Ballynamona.

Dean Mackin died at his residence in Brigus on 10 March 1857. He was buried at Brigus.

English, Philip
Persona · 1651-1736

Philip English (1651-1736) was one of the foremost fishing and shipping merchants of seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts. Born on the Isle of Jersey, he immigrated to Salem sometime before 1670 and set himself up as a general merchant. He outfitted fishing voyages and exported local produce to Spain, France, Ireland, Maryland, Virginia, Jersey, and the West Indies. As early as 1680, he was one of the wealthiest merchants in town, and, by 1692, he was said to own a wharf and warehouse, 14 buildings in Salem, and 21 sea-going vessels.

English was one of the first merchants in Massachusetts to specialize in outfitting voyages to the offshore banks. The majority of his vessels, chiefly two-masted ketches, divided their year between the offshore banks and the export trade to Europe and the West Indies.

Although originally a mariner himself, and one of the very few local merchants who actually dwelt on the waterfront amongst the seamen he employed, English had a turbulent relationship with the maritime community. He was a frequent litigant before the courts, mostly suing his customers for debt. When the controversy concerning witchcraft erupted in 1692, English had to flee the colony for a year to escape prosecution himself.

Templeman, Wilfred
Persona · 1908-1990

Wilfred Templeman (1908-1990), educator, fisheries biologist, was born in Bonavista, Newfoundland on 22 February 1908, son of Sarah (Fisher) and Charles Templeman. He married Eileen McGrath. Templeman died in St. John's on 5 April 1990.

After teaching in Newfoundland for several years (1924-27), Templeman was selected as the senior Jubilee scholar at Memorial University College, St. John's (1928). He studied fisheries biology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, and obtained a PhD at the University of Toronto (1933). Before his return to Newfoundland in 1936, Templeman was employed as a researcher with the Fisheries Research Board of Canada (1930-33), and a lecturer at McGill University, Montreal.

Templeman was appointed head of the biology department at Memorial University College (1936), while continuing his marine research into lobster and capelin. He was appointed head of the Newfoundland Laboratory in 1944. Following Confederation (1949), Templeman became director of the federal Fisheries Biological Station, St. John's (1949-72). In the 1960s he chaired a standing committee on research and Statistics for the International Commission for the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (ICNAF) and published the standard reference work, Marine Resources of Newfoundland (1966). In 1972, Templeman was named the first J.L. Paton Professor of Marine Biology and Fisheries at Memorial University (1972). He was a member of the Fisheries and Oceans Research Advisory Council (1981-85), as well as a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing.

Templeman published more than 200 articles on North Atlantic fish species. He was one of the first fisheries biologists to highlight the impact of offshore technology on fish populations, noting in 1966 that the size of Newfoundland cod stocks and other fish species was diminishing. He also critiqued the ability of ICNAF to monitor fish stocks.

Templeman was the recipient of many honours, including an OBE (1948), selection as a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada (1950), and an honorary D.Sc. degree from Memorial University. In 1982, a Department of Fisheries and Oceans research vessel was named in his honour.

O'Donnell, Richard David
Persona · ca.1829-1890

Richard D. O'Donnell (ca.1829-1890), Catholic priest, was born at Cahir, Diocese of Waterford, Ireland, circa 1829. He died at St. Mary's, St. Mary's Bay, on 19 May 1890.

O'Donnell was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's on 9 August 1857 by Bishop John Thomas Mullock. He was initially appointed a curate in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist Parish, and, subsequently, a professor at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's. O'Donnell was stationed at St. Patrick's Parish, Burin (1862-71). He was appointed as the parish priest of Assumption Parish, St. Mary's, St. Mary's Bay, where he resided until his death in 1890.

Bloomfield, Walter
Persona · [18-]-1943

Walter Broomfield (18-?-1943), the youngest son of Samuel James and Eliza (Learning) Broomfield, was born in 18-?. He married Carrie Anderson and had five children. He was a trapper and fisherman from Big Bay, near Davis Inlet.

Bright, Thomas
Persona · fl.1940-1977

Thomas Bright (fl. 1940 -1977), veteran, baseball and hockey organizer, sports official, was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. He joined the Armed Forces in 1940, serving in various actions overseas including the D-Day offensive. He returned to Saint John after World War II, but left again in 1957 as a civilian employee of the Forces. He worked at a number of military installations, including Moosonee, Ontario, where he was active in organizing Little League baseball.

In 1967 Bright was transferred from Moosonee to Happy Valley/Goose Bay, Newfoundland as superintendent of the base's heating plant. In Happy Valley/Goose Bay, Bright was active in all levels of Little League baseball, particularly as organizer and umpire. He established a girls' softball league and was also involved with adult games. In the winter he was involved with minor hockey as team manager, rink manager and coordinator of tournaments and hockey schools.

As a result of his devotion to the interests of minor hockey and Little League baseball, Bright was made an honorary Kinsman in 1977 and nominated by them to the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame. He retired from his job with the Forces in 1977 due to ill health and moved to Saint John in that year.

Nowlan, Plagius
Persona · 1784-1871

Plagius Nowlan (1784-1871), Catholic priest, was born in 1784 in the parish of Killrush, County Wexford, Ireland. He received his early education in the Roman Catholic Seminary and St. Peter's College, Wexford, under Rev. John Sinnott. Rev. Sinnott's brother James had served for many years as a missionary in Newfoundland, so Nowlan's desire to serve in Newfoundland may have originated from that connection. Nowlan completed his ecclesiastical training at Birchfield College, Kilkenny.

Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming visited the southeast counties of Ireland in the 1830s to recruit priests for the Vicariate Apostolic of Newfoundland. Nowlan accepted Fleming's invitation. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Fleming in Carrick-on-Suir, Ireland, in 1831 and departed shortly afterwards for St. John's, Newfoundland.

Nowlan was appointed a curate to Rev. Ewer (also spelled Yore) in Harbour Grace, with residence at Carbonear, serving that parish from 1831 to 1835. During that period, he was appointed a member of the Board of Health for the District of Harbour Grace. He was also one of the founding members of the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS) in Carbonear.

In 1835, Rev. Nowlan was appointed the first parish priest of Holy Rosary Parish, Little Placentia (now Argentia), and remained there until his death in 1871. Among his accomplishments was the construction of a parish church. He also served as a member of the Roman Catholic School Board for the district.

Rev. Nowlan died on 6 January 1871. His remains were interred in Mount Rosary Cemetery, Argentia. During World War II, when American military forces began their occupation of the town of Argentia as a military base, the seat of the parish was moved to Freshwater. In 1942, Rev. Nowlan's remains were transferred to the parish cemetery at Freshwater.

Rev. Nowlan was seen as a pragmatic and affable man, who steered clear of the political and denominational controversies in which some of his colleagues immersed themselves.

Montagu, John
Persona · 1718-1795

John Montagu (1718-1795), naval officer, governor, was born in Lackham, Wiltshire, the son of James Montague and a great-great-grandson of the first Earl of Manchester. Montagu married Sophia Wroughton of Wilcot, Wiltshire in 1748. They were the parents of one daughter and four sons. The three younger sons, George (1750-1829), James (1752-94) and Edward (1755-99) all followed their father into the service, George reaching the rank of admiral, James captain in the navy and Edward lieutenant-colonel in the army. George served as flag-captain to his father during the latter's last year at Newfoundland. Montagu retired to Fareham in Hampshire, where he died on 7 September 1795.

Montagu entered the Royal Academy at Portsmouth on 14 August 1733 and served on board a number of vessels during the next seven years. He was promoted to lieutenant on 22 December 1740 and assigned to the Buckingham the following February. He attained the rank of commander in March 1744/5, and was made captain in January 1745/6 on board the 40-gun ship Ambuscade, seeing action at Cape Finistre the following May. He saw limited command in the eight years between 1748-56, during which time he served as Member of Parliament for Huntington.

Montagu returned to active duty in 1757 as captain of the Monarque. One of his first responsibilities was to carry out the sentence of the court martial of Admiral John Byng (Governor of Newfoundland 1742) who had been found guilty of negligence for his decision to retreat from the French forces at Minorca the previous year. Byng was shot by firing squad on the quarter-deck of the Monarque on 14 March.

Montagu saw battle in various European engagements during the Seven Years' War (1756-63). In 1770 he was made Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron and the following year, Commander-in-Chief of the North American station, from the Gulf of St. Lawrence south to Florida and the Bahamas, a position he held until 1776 when he was made Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Newfoundland. In February of that year he was raised to Vice Admiral of the Blue.

While in charge of the Newfoundland station, Montagu was mainly concerned with the protection of the coast and the fishing fleet from American privateers. With the outbreak of renewed hostilities with France in 1778, he ordered the capture of St. Pierre and Miquelon, had the town burned, and the 1392 residents sent back to France.

Montagu's tour of duty in Newfoundland ended in 1778 and he returned to England. From 1783-86 he served as Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth and rose through the admiralty ranks, being made Admiral of the White Squadron on 24 September 1787.

Stevens, John
Persona · 1702-1779

John Stevens (1702-1779) was a merchant and landowner in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the late colonial period. He kept a number of schooners in the bank fishery and manned them with local men, who provisioned themselves and their families at his store. Stevens also owned a number of houses in Gloucester that he rented to fishermen and other customers.

Walsh, James
Persona · 1803-1873

James Walsh (1803-1873), Catholic priest, was born in Cappahayden, County Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1803. He died at Merasheen, Placentia Bay, on 12 July 1873.

Walsh studied for the priesthood in St. Kieran's College, Kilkenny, and, in 1831 was ordained a priest in Dublin, Ireland by Michael Anthony Fleming, Bishop of St. John's.

At the invitation of Bishop Fleming, Rev. Walsh arrived in the Vicariate of Newfoundland in 1835. He was appointed as priest at Carbonear where he was an active member of the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS).

In the latter part of 1841 Rev. Walsh was transferred as parish priest to the Sacred Heart Parish, Placentia. He set out from Carbonear in the month of December to walk to Placentia in order to be available to celebrate the Masses for the Christmas Season in his new parish. The journey was arduous and tragic as some of his companions died along the route after being caught in a bitter snow storm.

Rev. Walsh also served at St. Joseph's Parish, Bonavista (1855-57). In 1862 he was appointed as the parish priest of Sacred Heart Parish, St. Kyrans, Placentia Bay, where he resided until his death in 1873. Rev. Walsh was also a member of the Board of Education for Placentia West.