Although the monastery may have passed into history, and the buildings taken on a different lease of life, one part of the history of the Abbey that will always remain in Fort Augustus is the life, and death, of the monks. The monks cemetery with its beautiful spot overlooking the loch was part of the monk’s garden, out of bounds to the boys. But the monks funerals often gave the boys an opportunity to see the cemetery. With the demise of the Abbey, the cemetery was more accessible. The list below provides a history of the monks (and nuns from the old convent and some laity) who made up some of the history of Fort Augustus Abbey and who are buried in the monks cemetery. There are many other monks not listed below who were monks of our Abbey and who continue God’s work on earth or whose resting place is elsewhere. These are signified with a *
| Monks | |||
| Br Wilfrid Atkinson | (1900 – 1989) | ||
| Br Raphael Auer | (1876 – 1957) | His father was Bavarian (watchmaker), mother Swiss. Was expert watch-mender. Brother to Canon Bernard Auer (Aberdeen) | |
| Fr Swithun Bell | (1880 – 1944) | ||
| Fr Francis Blackwell | (1888 – 1940) | Clothed and simply professed at Erdington: transferred to FA before Solemn vows. | |
| Fr Odo Blundell | (1868 – 1943) | Chaplain RN 1914-18. Present at the battle of Jutland May 1916. | |
| Br David Brooks | (1917 – 1987) | ||
| Fr Gregory Brusey | (1912 – 2001) | nephew of Fr Ambrose Geoghegan | |
| Fr Thomas Campbell | (1871 – 1924) | ||
| Fr Edmund Carruth | (1910 – 1988) | ||
| Fr Elphegus Cody | (1847 – 1891) | ||
| Br John Condon | (1907 – 1986) | Originally a plumber, then electrician, and head cook for fifteen years: then Porter’s lodge. Earned Long Service Medal in Auxiliary Fire Service. | |
| Fr Placid Corballis | (1866 – 1949) | ||
| Br Patrick Cullen | (1900 – 1972) | ||
| Br Stephen Cusick | (1887 – 1960) | ||
| Fr Edward Delepine * | (1918 – 2013) | Buried at Ampleforth | |
| Fr Cyril Dieckhoff | (1869 – 1950) | For the family history (escape from the Russians), see M.Butler Holme Eden: the Nuns of Fort Augustus, 2006, p48. | |
| Abbot Mark Dilworth | (1924 – 2004) | ||
| Br Gabriel Donoghue | (1895 – 1978) | ||
| Abbot Oswald Eaves | (1909 – 1975) | Family connection with St John Southworth. Completed nave of church, built Calder wing of school. Went to Sweden 1960-74, but for health returned to Carlekemp | |
| Fr Columba Edmonds | (1861 – 1923) | ||
| Br Dominic Fasseau | (1887 – 1959) | Buried beside his father, George Fasseau | |
| James Fraser | d 1906 | Postulant | |
| Br Anthony Freeman | (1888 – 1957) | ||
| Br Martin Furey | (1871 – 1950) | ||
| Fr Ambrose Geoghegan | (1882 – 1965) | ||
| Fr Cyprian Gibson | (1892 – 1960) | Army signaller 1915-18, listening in to German telephones; also studied Sanskrit in the trenches. Nashdom 1929. FA from 1932; taught Philosophy from 1939. Acquired working knowledge of Church Slavonic; familiar with French, Latin Greek, Italian. Later studied Hebrew (made caard index dictionary), Arabic: late in life started Russian. | |
| Fr Paulinus Gorwood | (1854 – 1917) | ||
| Br Placid Grady | (1905 – 1984) | ||
| Fr Augustine Grene | (1916 – 1992) | ||
| Fr Meinradus Grimm | (1864 – 1938) | ||
| Br Malachy Hanson | (1912 – 1956) | ||
| Abbot Celestine Haworth | (1911 – 1987) | ||
| Br Adrian Houghton | (1910 – 1982) | Took charge of poultry yard, then kitchen, school refectory, the shop. | |
| Abbot Oswald Hunter Blair | (1853 – 1939) | ||
| Fr Philip Hynes | (1906 – 1972) | Supplied much of the funds for first buildings at FA. Helped found St Bede’s College, Manchester. First Master of St Benet’s Hall 1898. | |
| Br Benedict Jackson | (1905 – 1969) | ||
| Fr Laurence Kelly | (1915 – 1987) | Was torpedoed with party of evacuee children on way to canada 1940. Much work in school – gamesmaster, housemaster. | |
| Fr Augustine Kirk | (1866 – 1946) | ||
| Abbot Wulstan Knowles | (1881 – 1965) | ||
| Fr John Lane-Fox | (1880 – 1974) | Cousin of Fr Jerome Vaughan. Chaplain, Irish Guards (MC; lost eye and finger). Portsmouth RI 1926-38, Washington 1939 | |
| Br Ignatius Lengenfelder | (1867 – 1943) | ||
| Abbot Leo Linse | (1850 – 1910) | ||
| Fr John-Baptiste McBride | (1913 – 1998) | A Lester student: later ran sailing for the school. Also spent time at Carlekemp. Spent last his six months at Ampleforth, in the infirmary. | |
| Fr Ninian MacDonald | (1887 – 1972) | Started in FA alumnate under Abbot Linse. Was Army Chaplain (23 Div in France, then 48 Div in Italy): negotiated cease-fire with Austrians. Worked as negotiator/interpreter for Allied Commission round Fiume till 1922. Was in USA (Portsmouth, then Newman, Delbarton for Newark Abbey). Also Chaplain to Kilgraston Convent (Sacred Heart nuns). | |
| Fr Andrew MacDonnell | (1870 – 1960) | In or about 1912, he came to Canada and served as a parish priest in Ladysmith, British Columbia. During the First World War, he was a chaplain with the Canadian forces and was decorated with the Military Cross. After the war, he devoted both time and energy to the re-settlement of Scottish Catholics in Canada, mainly in Alberta | |
| Br Michael Macguire | (1910 – 1996) | Two sisters nuns, brother priest (Glasgow). Worked as slater & plasterer, & Fire service in war (esp Clydebank blitz 1940-41), and as joiner etc at FA. Last of FA laybrothers. | |
| James McKay | d 1940 | Postulant | |
| Fr Laurence Mann * | (1963 – 1945) | ||
| Fr Simon Mackin | (1880 – 1930) | ||
| Joseph Manley | d 1880 | Postulant | |
| Fr Antony Mattes | (1865 – 1929) | ||
| Br Thomas McCafferty | (1869 – 1954) | ||
| Br Joseph McCauley | (1906 – 1974) | ||
| Fr Ethelbert McCombes | (1909 – 1960) | ||
| Fr Andrew McKillop | (1908 – 2002) | ||
| Br Pascal McLaughlin | (1900 – 1989) | ||
| Fr Thomas McLaughlin | (1914 – 1979) | ||
| Br Ignatius McNairn | (1902 – 1974) | ||
| Fr Kentigern Milne | (1856 – 1942) | Started as seminarian, then Belmont: was appointed (to his astonishment) Prior(Superior) by Rome 1886, personally selected by the Pope because he was a Scotsman (Whelan, Annals 1.272; cf M.Butler, Holme Eden: the nuns of Fort Augustus, 2006 pp 13-15). Milne was later Prior 1891-10, under Abbot Linse, and 1913-17 (Abt.Hunter-Blair), & helped found St Andrews Edinburgh (later Carlekemp) in 1930. | |
| Fr Aaroius Moody | (1855 – 1894) | ||
| Br Wulstan Neville | (1980 – 1944) | ||
| Br Magnus O’Brien | (1899 – 1967) | ||
| Br Gerard O’Brien | (1883 – 1963) | Worked mainly as carpenter: keen on walking and fishing. | |
| Fr Alphonsus O’Connell | (1891 – 1965) | ||
| Fr Bede O’Donnell | (1905 – 1978) | ||
| Fr Vincent Pirie-Watson | (1934 – 1983) | ||
| Fr Anselm Richardson | (1911 – 1987) | ||
| Fr Denys Rutledge | (1906 – 1997) | Lester student (pre-seminary) at FA 1925: First in Classics at Edinburgh (St Andrews Priory). Army Chaplain 1935-45. Hermit on Mull 1949, then Canna. Two years in ashram in India, then 1961-82 with Araucanian Indians in Chile. returned to FA 1982 (health) but always in Choir till final illness. | |
| Br Paul Scott | d 1959 | ||
| Fr Benedict Seton | (1880 – 1945) | ||
| Br James Sherry | (1889 – 1958) | ||
| Br Hugh Shields | (1906 – 1970) | 1924-27 sent to help found Washington. Then became Printer: produced EBC Ordo till 1968. Also skilled photographer. He took perpetual (rather than Solemn) vows, ‘In the presence of the VR Adrian Weld-Blundell of the Priory of St Anselm at Washington and the monks of the same monastery’ | |
| Fr Bernard Sole | (1903 – 1972) | ||
| Br Vincent Staiger | (1881 – 1950) | ||
| Fr Edward Staiger | |||
| Fr Bruno Stoton | (1871 – 1921) | ||
| Br George Tolan | (1914 – 1956) | ||
| Fr Jerome Pollard Urquhart | (1850 – 1916) | ||
| Fr Martin Wall | (1843 – 1936) | Said to have been the first man in great Britain to ride a bicycle & gave it its name while at Cambridge in 1861. In 1864 he supervised the construction of the first twenty miles of the Madras railway in India; he was for a time an Anglican minister, and a laymaster at FA. | |
| Fr Peter Walter | (1893 – 1972) | Edinburgh St Columba, Haddington, loaned to Ampleforth parish till 1939, when auxiliary Army chaplain; 1945 Liverpool St Augustine, Ormskirk. FA 1967 – Notes: His age prevented his going abroad with the Army in Second World War. |
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| Fr Basil Wedge | (1889 – 1963) | ||
| Br Joseph Basil Weld | (1874 – 1908) | ||
| Fr Adrian Weld Blundell | (1860 – 1949) | ||
| Fr Benedict Weld Blundell | (1857 – 1931) | ||
| Fr Maurice Whitehead | (1912 – 1994) | ||
| Fr Cuthbert Wilson | (1904 – 1980) | ||
| Nuns | |||
| Benedicta Carmont | (1872 – 1897) | Nun from the old convent in the village * | |
| Agnes Von Dieckhoff | (1871 – 1904) |
Nun from the old convent in the village * |
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| Adalberta Sullivan | (1882 – 1907) | Nun from the old convent in the village * | |
| Maura Gerrard | (1875 – 1908) | Nun from the old convent in the village * | |
| Philumena Fraser | (1876 – 1910) | Nun from the old convent in the village * | |
| Mildred Kighley | (1859 – 1912) | Nun from the old convent in the village * | |
| Josephine Frings | (1862 – 1917) | Nun from the old convent in the village * | |
| Lay persons | |||
| Mr William Docherty | (1908 – 1991) | ||
| Edna Clare Docherty | (1912 – 2001) | ||
| Sliam Duioins | |||
| Gilbert Farie | (1882 – 1966) | Headmaster | |
| Georgius J Fasseau | (1855 – 1917) | Father of Brother Dominic Fasseau | |
| Miss Moira Forsyth | (1905 – 1991) | ||
| Alexander Fraser | d 1939 | ||
| Peter Greenfield | (1934 – 1991) | ||
| Mr Rudolph Lipinski | (1907 – 1985) | ||
| Captain Charles MacDermot-Roe | (1891 – 1961) | ||
| Andrew McLaren | (1883 – 1975) | ||
| Miss Kathleen O’Donnell | (1902 – 1979) | Matron | |
| Miss Catherine Sanach | (1915 – 1976) | Seamstress | |
| Schoolboys | |||
| Michael Garaher | d 1882 | Schoolboy | |
| Peter Tucker | d 1960 | Schoolboy | |
| Frank Tucker | (1912 – 1993) | Father of Peter Tucker, whose ashes were scattered on his son’s grave |
On 10 October 1972, the nuns from the small convent graveyard in Fort Augustus were re-interred in the monks cemetery