Francis Grimshaw

Born in Bridgwater, Somerset on 6 October 1901, and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers at St Brendan's College, Bristol, then in Berkeley Square in central Bristol; in 1960 he would dedicate the new school in Brislington. He was ordained in Bristol as a priest for the Diocese of Clifton on 27 February 1926.[1]

He was appointed Bishop of Plymouth on 2 June 1947. His consecration to the Episcopate took place on 25 July 1947. The principal consecrator was Joseph Masterson, Archbishop of Birmingham; and the principal co-consecrators were William Lee (Bishop of Clifton), and Edward Ellis, Bishop of Nottingham.[2]

He was translated to the Archdiocese of Birmingham as Archbishop of Birmingham on 11 May 1954. In 1958 he led the Christian Brothers schools of England on a pilgrimage to Lourdes in the centenary year of the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St Bernadette. He participated in the first three sessions of the Second Vatican Council, held between in 1962 and 1965.[2]

He died in office on 22 March 1965, aged 63.[2]

Several schools have been named after him, including Archbishop Grimshaw School, Solihull. St Boniface's Catholic College in Plymouth has a House named after him.