Compton Theodore Galton (1855-1931)

Obituary
Mgr. Compton Theodore Galton, S.J., since 1902 Titular Bishop of Petenissus and Vicar-Apostolic of British Guiana and Barbados, has died at Georgetown at the age of seventy-five. His Lordship had been in British Guiana since 1896, and suffered many hardships on mission work. During his visit to the stations on the Brazilian frontier in 1918 his boat capsized in the River Ireng, and he was nearly drowned, being in the water with a dislocated shoulder, for half an hour. All his possessions were lost, and he had a three day's journey to the nearest point where food and shelter could be found. When he arrived at Georgetown he was in such a state that his servant did not recognise him, and refused him admittance into his own house.

Compton Theodore Galton was the second son of Theodore Howard Galton, of Hadzor House, near Droitwich, and was born on December 22, 1855. When he was six years old his parents were received into the Catholic Church. He was educated at Beaumont and at the Jesuits' College at Feldkirch. In 1873 he entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Manresa, Roehampton. He secured the B.A. degree from London University in 1877, and, after studying philoso- phy at Stonyhurst, taught at .Beaumont from 1880 to 1887 Then he studied theology and was ordained in 1890. In 1896 he was sent to Georgetown as Superior of the mission, and Vicar-General to Bishop Butler, S.J. Bishop Butler was the second Jesuit Vicar-Apostolic of the colony, and was succeeded on his death by Fr. Galton, who was then raised to the episcopate. The Bishop was a brother of Fr. Charles Sigismund Galton, S.J. R.I.P.

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