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Webster, Reverend Douglas Raymund, o.s.b., m.a., b. at Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 June, 1880.
Education: Harrow; New College, Oxford. Became
a Catholic 1899; entered the Benedictine Order 1902;
assistant Classical master (1906- ) and Librarian
(1913- ), Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse,
England; ordained 1912, army chaplain to the British
forces 1915. Contributor to the "Downside Review".
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Weimar, Anton, writer, b. at Vienna, Austria, 3
October, 1861. Education: Gymnasium and Univer-
sity, Vienna. Editor of the "Reichspost", Vienna,
1894-1897; writer, resident at Vienna. Member of
the Board of Directors and President of the Art
Section, Austrian Leo Society. Author of: "Prak-
tischer Führer auf dem Gebiete der christlichen
Kunst Österreichs" (Vienna, 1905); "Die deutsche
Presse in Österreich" (Vienna, 1907); "Die Kindheit
unseres Kaiser" (Vienna, 1910).
ARTICLE: Periodical Literature, Catholic: Austria.
Welch, Reverend Sidney Read, d.d., ph.d., j.p.,
b. in Japan, 4 July, 1871. Education: St. Joseph's
Academy, Cape Town; Propaganda, Rome. Ordained
1894; attached to the cathedral (at present, ad-
ministrator). Cape Town, 1894- ; Justice of the
Peace for Cape Division, Cape Colony. Founded
Catholic Association of Cape Town, 1897. Member
of the South African Society for the Advancement of
Science; member of the Academy of Liturgy, Rome.
Has contributed to: "Ephemerides Liturgicæ"
(Rome); "Catholic Magazine for South Africa";
editor of "Catholic Magazine for South Africa"
(since 1908).
ARTICLES: Good Hope, Eastern Vicariate of the Cape of; Good Hope, Western Vicariate of the Cape of; Hotten- tots; Kafirs; Pfanneb, Franz; Santos, Joao dos.
Weld, Everard A., Grassmere, England.
ARTICLE: Weld, Frederick Aloysius.
Weld-Blundell, Reverend Edward Benedict,
O.S.B. , b. at Ince BlundeU, Lancashire, England, 4
November, 1856. Education: Stonyhurst College,
Blackburn, and St. Michael's Abbey, Belmont,
England; St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus,
Scotland. Entered the Benedictine Order 1877;
ordained 1883; at one time professor of humanities
and formerly (ten years) in charge of the young
religious, St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus; for
a number of years engaged in parish work; chaplain.
Stanbrook Abbey, Worcester, 1906- . Edited:
Baker, "Contemplative Prayer"; "Life and Writings
of Dame Gertrude More"; Brother Ricerius of
Marchia, "Speedy Way to Perfection"; contributor
to: "Downside Review"; "Cathohc Fireside".
ARTICLES: More, Helen (Dame Gertrude); Stanbrook Abbey.
Welsh, Reverend Martin Stanislaus, o.p.,
B.A., s.T.Lect., J. CD., b. at Cambridge, Mass., 4 June,
1876. Education : Shepard Grammar School and Eng-
lish High School, Cambridge, and Boston College,
Boston, Massachusetts, various Dominican scholasti-
cates; Minerva, Rome. Professed in the Dominican
Order 1902; ordained 1906; professor of science and
Greek, St. Patrick's (since 1912, Aquinas) College,
Columbus, Ohio, 1909- . Spent three years in
Europe in study and travel. Contributor to "Rosary
Magazine" and other periodicals.
ARTICLES: Aduarte, Diego Francisco.
West, Albert Benjamin, a.m., ll.b., lawyer, b.
at Providence, Rhode Island, 21 January, 1883. Ed-
ucation: Classical High School and Brown Univer-
sity, Providence; Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Practising lawyer, Providence,
1907- ; admitted to United States Circuit Court
1911; member Rhode Island Legislature from Eighth
Representative District, 1911, 1912.
ARTICLE: Rhode Island.
Westlake, Nathaniel Hubert John, p.s.a.,
painter, designer and writer, b. at Romsey, England,
son of John Westlake. Became a Cathohc 1857;
married Frances Lloyd; former Chairman of the
Board of Guardians, St. Giles's and St. George's
Parishes, Bloomsbury, and former Manager and
Chairman of the Central Sick Asylums, Cleveland
Street and Hendon, London; Borough Councillor,
Holborn, London; painter, designer, and writer, resi-
dent in London. Has frequently exhibited at the
Royal Academy, Arts and Crafts, etc.; paintings in
St. John's Church at Richmond, cathedral at Ports-
mouth, St. Thomas's Church at St. Leonard's, St.
Augustine's Church at Tunbridge Wells, England;
Bute Memorial Chapel, Cardiff Castle, Wales;
Chapel, Maynooth College, Ireland; has designed
glass for St. Paul's Cathedral, London; Cathedrals
of Peterborough and Worcester, England; Gate of
Heaven Church, South Boston, Massachusetts;
painted the Stations at St. Francis's Church, Netting
Hill, London; designed Salviati's mosaic of Blessed
James of Ulm, South Kensington Museum, London;
did the Apse Mosaic, Newman Memorial Church,
Birmingham, England; has collaborated with many
famous architects. One of the original committee.
Arts and Crafts Society; member of British and
American Archaeological Society of Rome; member
British Archaeological Society of London; member
of the International Association of Fine Arts. Author
of: "OutUnes of the History of Design in Mural
Painting", 3 vols.; "History of Painted Glass", 4
vols.; "True Portraiture of St. Francis"; "Sketches
at Mahnes Exhibition"; edited: Reproduction of
Royal Manuscripts, 2BVII, British Museum; "Queen
Mary's Psalter", XIV Century Manuscript; con-
tributor of articles and illustrations to: "Archaclogia";
"Magazine of Art"; "Art Journal"; "Journal of the
Royal British Institute of Architects", etc.
ARTICLE: Mosaics.
Whitfield, Reverend Joseph Louis, m.a., b. in
London, 16 December, 1876. Education: Friars'
Grammar Schools, Stratford and Forest Gate, Lon-
don; St. Edmund's College, Ware, and Oscott College,
Birmingham, England; Cambridge University. Or-
dained 1904; natural science master (1904^1906) and
procurator (1906-1908), St. Edmund's CoUege,