Rev Joseph Tuite SJ
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Rev
First Name:
Joseph
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Tuite
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SJ
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Mullingar, Co Westmeath
Country of Birth:
Ireland
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Place of Death:
Greenwich, Sydney NSW
Country of Death:
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:
Tuite, Joseph
Teacher; born Mullingar, Ireland, 11 November 1837; died Greenwich, Sydney, 29 May 1909, aged 71.
Joseph Tuite entered the Society at Beaumont Lodge, Windsor, England, 6 September 1859, and from 1865-66, taught grammar and arithmetic at Clongowes College, Ireland. He went to Laval, France, for philosophy studies, 1866-69, and returned to teach writing at Tullamore College, Ireland, from 1869-70, where he was also prefect of discipline.
From 1870-74 he studied theology at St Beuno's and Roehampton, England, taught French and arithmetic at Belvedere College, Dublin, 1874-5, and did tertianship at Tronchiennes, 1875. He returned to Belvedere College, 1879-86, teaching French, arithmetic and writing, and was in charge of the preparatory school, 1881-85.
Tuite arrived in Australia in 1886, teaching at both Xavier College and Riverview for a few years before returning to Xavier, 1888-93, where he was minister, and in charge of the study.
He was again sent to Riverview, 1893-1903, and except for a year, 1904, when he worked in the parish of Richmond, he remained teaching at Riverview until his death. His subject was French, and he was well known for his teaching of deportment and courtesy. As minister, he showed every consideration for the material welfare of the boys. He was a generous, kind-hearted man, and finally died of a heart condition.
(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)