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b 5 Sep 1847 in Bath
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d 7 Feb 1891
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died aged 43.5
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clothed 28 Sep 1865 at Belmont Abbey
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solemn profession 8 Dec 1869
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ordained 29 Jun 1874
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Baptised: George Cody to George and Sarah (née Winter)
Educated at Belmont
Missions involved with included Redditch 1877-78
Originally clothed for St Gregory’s. Fr Elphegus taught philosophy at Belmont 1873-77 and moved to Fort Augustus in 1879 (he was in Prague Abbey 1881-82); formally transferred to FA on separation 1888. He was an energetic defender of Fort Augustus’s position in the financial dispute with the English Benedictine Congregation in 1884 (text quoted in M.Butler, Holme Eden Abbey, 2006, p19 n35)
