The Bergh Family Records

Right Reverend Abbot F Thomas Berg O.S.B.

"DAILY TELEGRAPH". 13/8/24.

ABBOT OF ST. AUGUSTINE'S.

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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