Hugh Pidcock | ANZ Clergy


About Help Contact login Rev Hugh Pidcock SJ Title: Rev First Name: W. Middle Names: Hugh Preferred Name: Hugh Surname: Pidcock Order: SJ Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1839 Place of Birth: Lincoln Country of Birth: England Date of Ordination: Place of Ordination: Country of Ordination: Ordination Diocese: Seminary: Date of Death: 06-Feb-1919 Place of Death: Norwood SA Country of Death: Australia Date of Burial: 07-Feb-1919 Place of Burial: West Terrace, Adelaide SA Country of Burial: Australia Find A Grave URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161807398 FindaGrave - Person Photo FindaGrave - Grave Photo Biographical Notes Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017: Pidcock, Hugh Teacher; born Lincoln, England, 4 April 1839; died Norwood, South Australia, 7 February 1919, aged 79. Hugh Pidcock was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, England, where he received his BA degree. He was ordained into the Anglican ministry about 1860, and worked first in England and then in Western Australia. It is said that he paid a visit to New Norcia in 1878 with the Anglican Bishop of Perth, from which resulted his conversion to the Catholic Church. He went to Sydney, where his wife died, and he was a teacher for some years at St Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill, before offering himself to the Society at the age of 49. He entered the Society, 5 June 1888, at Xavier College, and in 1891 left Australia for Milltown Park for two years of theology studies. This was followed by tertianship at Castres, France, 1893-4, and a return to Australia and Xavier College, 1894-1916. During this time he was in charge of music and the choir, as well as procurator, and a house consultor. The choir was even able to produce a Missa Cantata from time to time. He produced the first act of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, HMS Pinafore - the first time at Xavier. He gave up teaching in 1909 and the choir in 1913. For his recreation he played the piano, especially pieces from Beethoven and Chopin. He was not really interested in sport. His occasional sermons were quaint homilies rather than anything approaching set discourses. He would give truths, illustrate them from life and finally wind up with an apt quotation from scripture. His piety was simple and sincere, with plenty of common sense. His final years, 1916-19, were spent in parish ministry at Norwood, South Australia. In his last months he was unable to say Mass. Most Jesuits knew very little about Pidcock's early life as an Anglican. It was said by contemporaries that he was 'a general friend of all'. (Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Middle Names:

Hugh

Preferred Name:

Hugh

Surname:

Pidcock

Order:

Date of Birth:

04-Apr-1839

Place of Birth:

Lincoln

Country of Birth:

England

Date of Ordination:

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

06-Feb-1919

Place of Death:

Norwood SA

Country of Death:

Australia

Date of Burial:

07-Feb-1919

Place of Burial:

West Terrace, Adelaide SA

Country of Burial:

Australia

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161807398

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Fr David Strong SJ, The Australian dictionary of Jesuit biography 1848-2015, Second Edition, 2017:
Pidcock, Hugh

Teacher; born Lincoln, England, 4 April 1839; died Norwood, South Australia, 7 February 1919, aged 79.

Hugh Pidcock was educated at Winchester and Cambridge, England, where he received his BA degree. He was ordained into the Anglican ministry about 1860, and worked first in England and then in Western Australia. It is said that he paid a visit to New Norcia in 1878 with the Anglican Bishop of Perth, from which resulted his conversion to the Catholic Church. He went to Sydney, where his wife died, and he was a teacher for some years at St Joseph's College, Hunter's Hill, before offering himself to the Society at the age of 49.

He entered the Society, 5 June 1888, at Xavier College, and in 1891 left Australia for Milltown Park for two years of theology studies. This was followed by tertianship at Castres, France, 1893-4, and a return to Australia and Xavier College, 1894-1916.

During this time he was in charge of music and the choir, as well as procurator, and a house consultor. The choir was even able to produce a Missa Cantata from time to time. He produced the first act of Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, HMS Pinafore - the first time at Xavier. He gave up teaching in 1909 and the choir in 1913. For his recreation he played the piano, especially pieces from Beethoven and Chopin. He was not really interested in sport. His occasional sermons were quaint homilies rather than anything approaching set discourses. He would give truths, illustrate them from life and finally wind up with an apt quotation from scripture. His piety was simple and sincere, with plenty of common sense.

His final years, 1916-19, were spent in parish ministry at Norwood, South Australia. In his last months he was unable to say Mass.

Most Jesuits knew very little about Pidcock's early life as an Anglican. It was said by contemporaries that he was 'a general friend of all'.

(Reproduced by permission of Fr David Strong SJ.)

Rev Hugh Pidcock SJ

Biographical Notes