ACTIVE CAREER ENDED.

FORMER RECTOR OF COTTAM DEAD

An energetic career was ended today by the death of Father Henry Bernard Roberts at St. Andrew's Presbytery, Cottam, near Preston.  He was 83 years of age.

Father Roberts had led an extremely active life and, apart from his religious work, be had been a professor, Lancashire County councillor, a District Councillor and a farmer.  Even after he had turned 80 he often walked to Preston and back from Cottam.

Born at Clayton-le-Moors in May, 1849, he went to St. Edward's College, Liverpool, in 1862.  He studied further at the English College, Lisbon, and was ordained by Bishop Goss in 1872.  After spending some time at a university in Rome he returned to his old Liverpool college as professor in modern languages.

He began his career as priest at St. Joseph's, Liverpool, where he stayed for 15 years until 1896. Then he went to Great Eccleston where he remained until 1911.

This was one of the most active periods of his life. He sat on the County Council and the District Council, was a judge of cattle, and had a farm of his own.

After leaving Great Eccleston he was at Newhouse, Barton, till 1916, and then, for five years, at Claughton-on-Brock.  Finally, in 1921, he came to Cottam where he resigned from his position as rector in October last.

The dirge is to be at 7 p.m. on Thursday, at St. Andrew's, Cottam.  On Friday morning the Bishop of Lancaster will say Requiem Mass. The burial will be in Cottam Cemetery.