Sebastian Redford
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Sebastian Redford (27 April 1701 – 2 January 1763) was an English
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.


Life

Educated at St. Omer, Watten, and
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, he became a Jesuit and lived as chaplain with the Wrights of
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, then with the Herberts of Powis (1733–48). Redford was much trusted by the second Marquess of Powis (died 1745), but the third was unfriendly. When he died (1748), a Protestant succeeded, the chaplaincy lapsed, and Redford had, as he says, "to rue the ruin" of his former flock. He was next stationed at
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, the seat of Lord Molineux.


Works

While at Croxteth, he published "An important Enquiry; or the Nature of Church Reformation fully considered" (1751). The book was a success, but the excise officers seized and destroyed 400 copies, the last half of the edition. A second and enlarged edition appeared in 1758. Many Redford's letters were preserved by the English Jesuits.


References

;Attribution * The entry cites: ** Henry Foley, ''Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus'', VII (1882), 640. {{DEFAULTSORT:Redford, Sebastion 1701 births 1763 deaths 18th-century English Jesuits 18th-century English people