Rev Cornelius Hartnett SJ
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Rev
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Cornelius
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Hartnett
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SJ
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Westbury TAS
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Australia
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Sydney NSW
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Australia
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Gore Hill NSW
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Australia
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Biographical Notes
Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Hartnett, Cornelius
Pastor; born Westbury, Tasmania, 20 March 1873; died Sydney, 25 June 1948, aged 75.
Cornelius Hartnett was a native of Tasmania, and was educated at St Ignatius' College, Riverview. He entered the Society, 18 March 1891, at Loyola College, Greenwich. This was followed by two years studying rhetoric at Greenwich, after which, from 1894-1900, he taught and was successively first and second prefect, and hall prefect at Xavier College, Kew.
In June 1900 Hartnett left Australia for philosophy at Vals, France, but when religious congregations were expelled from France, he went to Holland. Theology was at Milltown Park, Dublin, 1903-07, and tertianship at Tronchiennes, Belgium, 1907-08.
He returned to Australia in 1908 and taught at Riverview, 1908-13, and at St Patrick's College, 1913-15, before working in the parishes of Richmond, Norwood, Hawthorn, Lavender Bay, and North Sydney. From 1930-40 he was spiritual father at St Aloysius' College and worked in the church of Star of the Sea.
Hartnett was a good cricketer when young, and intellectually gifted, but too nervy to make the most of his talents. He was very gentle and unassuming, warm-hearted, genial and greatly liked at Milson's Point and Lavender Bay. He held strong views against bodyline bowling, but on other subjects was mild and tolerant.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)