Carroll, George Edward, 1905-1990, Jesuit priest
- IE IJA J/702
- Person
- 30 January 1905-06 September 1990
Born: 30 January 1905, Warrenpoint, County Down
Entered: 14 September 1927, St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg, County Offaly
Ordained: 31 July 1940, Milltown Park, Dublin
Final vows: 08 December 1978
Died: 06 September 1990, Gonzaga University, Spokane WA, USA - Oregonensis Province (ORE)
Transcribed HIB to CAL : 1929; CAL to ORE
Father was a Solicitor in Newry, County Down and later Resident Magistrate for County Clare. Father has died and mother then lived at Sandycove Avenue East, Sandycove, County Dublin supported by private means and assistance from her sons.
Educated at Presentation Brothers College, Glasthule. In January 1922 he went to work for the National Bank.
by 1938 came to Milltown (HIB) studying
◆ Irish Province News
Irish Province News 18th Year No 1 1943
Fr. George Carroll, of the Oregon Province, who had been doing his studies in Ireland and finished his tertianship last summer, reached home safely and is now attached to the College at Seattle. The Seminary News, October, 1942, mentions that “in the same Atlantic convoy with the ill-fated Wakefield, the sight of her disaster was not as thrilling as the presence one day of an enemy submarine a few hundred feet from his ship”.