The Universe
announces the death of the Right Rev.
Frederick T. Bergh, first Abbot of St. Augustine's Abbey,
Ramsgate, which took place at King's College Hospital,
Denmark Hill, yesterday morning. Born at Brixham, Devon,
in 1840, Father Bergh belonged to a Danish family which
settled in England in the eighteenth century. He was
educated in England, France and Italy, ordained priest in
the Roman Catholic Church in 1869, and became head in 1876
of St. Augustine's Monastery and College, Ramsgate, having
also under his control missions in the Isle of Thanet.
During his headship he erected the St. Catherine's Hospital,
a second church at Ramsgate, and a church and convent at
Minster; and he was also responsible for the establishment
of missions at Westgate and Broadstairs, as well as
for additions made to the college and monastic buildings
at St. Augustine's. In 1896 he was appointed Abbot by
Papal decree, and up to the time of his death he was
chaplain at the Convent of the Daughters of the Cross,
Carshalton. He underwent an operation a month ago, and
there followed a relapse from which he died.
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