Jimmy Carlton MSC
Title:
First Name:
James
Middle Names:
Andrew
Preferred Name:
Jimmy
Surname:
Carlton
Order:
MSC
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Lismore NSW
Country of Birth:
Australia
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne VIC
Country of Ordination:
Australia
Ordination Diocese:
Seminary:
Date of Death:
Place of Death:
Waitara, Sydney NSW
Country of Death:
Australia
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial:
Ryde NSW
Country of Burial:
Australia
Find A Grave URL:
Biographical Notes
Athlete. Missionary priest 1939-1945. Married 1945. Teacher. Coach.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography entry: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/carlton-james-andrew-5505
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Runner Becomes Priest, The Age, Melbourne, 24 July 1939, p 10, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204937531:
Few, if any, athletes have equalled the "record", of Rev. Father ("Jimmy") Carlton in relinquishing all claims to fame in the world of sport almost at the very moment of stepping on to the threshold of international achievement. Carlton's retirement from the track in January, 1932, when he was a "certainty" for selection as No. 1 in Australia's Olympiad team, caused a sensation, and gave sporting writers one of the best "human interest" stories they had had for a long time. Yesterday the sequel to this story occurred when the former "Jimmy" Carlton, then simply James Carlton, divinity student, was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Mannix. As a schoolboy at St. Joseph's College, Sydney, "Jimmy"—who had as a school mate F. A. Bradley, winner of the 1937 Stawell Gift—quickly showed his prowess as a sprinter. He won the public schools' sprint champion- ship of New South Wales, from which achievement he went on to win the Australian sprint title in 1928, and, in the same year, to represent Australia at the Amsterdam Olympic Games. In the year of his retirement he defeated the United States sprint champion, George Simpson, in the 100 yards and 220 yards contests in New Zealand. Rev. Father James Carlton left Melbourne by mail plane for Sydney yesterday. He will celebrate his first Mass there to-day.