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Brennan, Robert
Persona · 1829-1896

Robert Brennan (1829-1896), Catholic priest, was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, circa 1829. Brennan died at St. John's on 17 September 1896 and was buried in Belvedere Cemetery, St. John's.

Brennan completed his studies for the priesthood in Ireland and was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, on 24 June 1855 by John Thomas Mullock, Bishop of St. John's.

Rev. Brennan's first appointment was in St. John's. In 1857 he was appointed the parish priest of Holy Apostles Parish, Renews (1857-71). In 1871 he was named parish priest of Holy Rosary Parish, Argentia, succeeding Rev. Plagius Nowlan. Father Brennan retired in 1895.

Kinsella, John
Persona · 1839-1871

John Kinsella (1839-1871), Catholic priest, was born at St. John's, Newfoundland, 9 September 1839, son of Mary (Ryan) and Patrick Kinsella. He studied for the priesthood at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's, and was ordained a priest on 8 December 1866 in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's, by Bishop John Thomas Mullock.

Following his ordination, Rev. Kinsella was appointed a curate in St. Patrick's Parish, Burin, with residence in St. Lawrence, Placentia West. He ministered in this parish from 1867 to 1871.

Rev. Kinsella died at St. Bonaventure's College residence, St. John's on 14 September 1871.

Phippard, Richard
Persona · 1856-1888

Richard Phippard (1856-1888), Catholic priest, was born at Placentia, Newfoundland, in February 1856. He died at Sandy Point, Bay St. George, on 28 July 1888. His body is buried in the parish cemetery at Placentia.

Phippard was ordained a priest on 27 March 1880. He was the first native-born priest to work on the West Coast of Newfoundland. Phippard served in the Bay of Islands area (1883) and as the parish priest of the Roman Catholic Parish at Sandy Point, Bay St. George (1884).

Saunders, Sadie
Persona · 1898-

Sadie Saunders (Cummings) b. 1898. Private secretary to Sir William Coaker, until 1926. Carbonear correspondent for the Daily News. Married Fred Saunders.

Anderson, Torsten
Persona · 1834-[19-]

Torsten Anderson (1834-19-) was born in Norway on 9 February 1834 as Torstein Kverna. He married Mary Thomas in 1859; they had six boys and four girls.

Torstein Kverna arrived in Labrador in the late 1840s as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company. He adopted a new name following his arrival in Labrador, altering the old Norwegian spelling of Torstein to Torsten and changing his surname from Kverna to Anderson as the latter was considered too difficult to pronounce. He chose the Anderson as his father's name was Anders and the name Anders had been in the family for about two hundred years. Torsten Anderson was the first European to settle in Makkovik, Labrador.

Persona · 1888-1986

Leonard Cecil Outerbridge (1888-1986), Newfoundland businessman and lieutenant-governor, was born at Ashville, North Carolina, on 6 May 1888, son of Maria Harvey (Tucker) and Joseph Outerbridge, businessman and Vice President of the Patriotic Association of Newfoundland. He married Dorothy Winifred Strathy, and they had one daughter, Nancy Diana (Winter). Outerbridge died on 6 September 1986.

Outerbridge was educated at Bishop Feild College, St. John's, Marlborough College, England, and the University of Toronto, where he obtained his LL.B. After serving in the Canadian Army (rank of major) in World War I, Outerbridge practiced law in Toronto before returning to St. John's to manage Harvey and Company with his brother, Herbert. Over the next several decades, Outerbridge was involved with the Harvey Group of Companies in various capacities: Vice President, Director, President, and Chairman. He was President of the Newfoundland Board of Trade (1923-24); Chairman, Newfoundland Committee of the British Empire Exhibition (1925) Director, Bank of Montreal; Board of Directors, Bishop Feild College (1920-24), and Bishop Spencer College (1921-46).

In addition to his business activities, Outerbridge served as honourary private secretary to Newfoundland governors from 1930 to 1944. In 1941, Outerbridge, with lawyer Charles Hunt, publicly supported the Anglo-American Leased Bases Agreement, which authorized the United States to establish military bases in Newfoundland. He volunteered as full-time director of Civil Defence in World War II, and supervised the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) team in St. John's. He supported confederation in the second referendum in 1948. In 1949, he succeeded Albert B. Walsh as the second lieutenant-governor of Newfoundland; his term ended in 1957.

Outerbridge was also active in the Anglican church: he served as Rectors Warden at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist from 1923 to 1941, and again from 1944 to 1948; he was involved with church committees; and he was on the Executive Committee of the Anglican Diocese of Newfoundland from 1920 to 1969.

Outerbridge was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (1918) and Companion of the British Empire (1926); knighted (1946); appointed Honourary Colonel of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment (1950) and Knight of Grace, Order of St. John of Jerusalem (1951); made a Companion of the Order of Canada (1967); received a Special Services Award, Canadian Institute of the Blind, for his service as director from 1959-75 (1985); and appointed Companion of the Order of the Red Cross (1985).

Davidson, Stewart Alexander
Persona · 1921-

Stewart Alexander Davidson (1921- ), World War II veteran, teacher, university professor, sports researcher, was born in Montreal in 1921. After serving in the RCAF during World War II, he returned to Montreal where he enrolled in a Bachelor of Physical Education program at McGill University. Following graduation, Davidson taught in Montreal schools for a number of years before continuing his studies at Columbia University. He continued his teaching career after receiving his EdD from that institution and subsequently taught in the School of Physical Education (later the School of Human Kinetics) at the University of Ottawa until his retirement in 1986.

While conducting research on Canadian sports pioneers, Davidson encountered Frank Graham, who encouraged him to examine the history of sport in Newfoundland. Davidson obtained funding from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to make a research trip to the province in the summer of 1980. With Graham's assistance he interviewed fourteen members of the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame. Most of the interviews, all with men, were conducted in the Sports Archives office. The resultant paper, "An Oral History of Newfoundland Sport", was presented at the Fifth Canadian Symposium on the History of Sport and Physical Education at the University of Toronto in 1982 and published as part of the Symposium's proceedings.

Rabbitts, John Victor
Persona · 1909-1964

John Victor (JVR, Jack, Bunny) Rabbitts (1909-1964), athlete, civil servant, coach, sports writer, was born in St. John's on October 4, 1909, the son of Jessie (Clarke) and Fred Rabbitts. On October 4, 1957, he married Dorothy Elizabeth Hewerdine. They had no children. Rabbitts died in St. John's on 8 August 1964.

Rabbitts attended the Methodist College, St. John's, where he participated in football (soccer), hockey, and track and field (athletics). He joined the Church Lads Brigade (CLB) in 1923, where he played football (soccer), hockey, basketball, and track and field, and was a member of the rowing crew in the St. John's Regatta (1925-1928). He also participated in tennis and curling.

Rabbitts attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston before returning to St. John's to work as a civil servant with the Newfoundland Government. He was an executive member of the Newfoundland Amateur Athletic Association (NAAA), founder (1935) and president of the Newfoundland Lawn Tennis Association, and served on the executives of hockey and basketball sport governing bodies. An avid bowling enthusiast ("Mr. Bowling"), he organized tournaments and developed public interest in the activity. He also coached gymnastics at the CLB and Bishop Feild College (1950). He organized the All-Newfoundland Football Association (and was first president in 1950) and was later made an honourary life member of the association.

Rabbitts involvement in sport also included research, writing, and chronicling. For forty years he was a regular sports contributor to local newspapers. In 1979 he was inducted posthumously into the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame. The Basketball Newfoundland Hall of Fame inducted him as a builder in 1984. The Newfoundland Soccer Hall of Fame inducted him in 1985, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Tennis Hall of Fame followed suit in 1986.

Bergin, Martin Joseph
Persona · 1809-1841

Martin Joseph Bergin (1809-1841), Catholic priest, was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1809. Bergen died at Tilton Harbour 28 September 1841.

At the invitation of Michael Anthony Fleming, Bergin came to the Vicariate of Newfoundland, arriving in 1834. He served St. Patrick's Parish, Tilton (Tilting) Harbour, Fogo Island, from 1834 to 1841.

FitzPatrick, William
Persona · 1846-1881

William FitzPatrick (1846-1881), Catholic priest, was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, on 23 January 1846, the son of William and Mary (Morey) Fitzpatrick. After completing high school at St. Bonaventure's College, St. John's (1866), he began his studies for the priesthood at All Hallows College, Dublin, Ireland. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Thomas Joseph Power in the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's in 1870.

Rev. FitzPatrick served as a curate at the Cathedral Parish in St. John's from 1870-72. In 1872, he was appointed a professor at St. Bonaventure's College, and he became president of the college in 1878. He died of tuberculosis in St. John's 4 January 1881. He was buried in his family's plot, Belvedere Cemetery, St. John's.

Shortly after his death, an article in The Adelphian, a St. Bonaventure's publication, noted that during his time at the college, Rev. FitzPatrick had been in ill-health and had often been confined to his room. Nevertheless, he made a significant impact on the students. He was also a supporter of the Irish Christian Brothers, providing accommodations for them in St. Bonaventure's College during the construction of Mount St. Francis Monastery.