Nicola Mobbs, who left Princethorpe College in 2008, and her partner Joe shared the happy news of the birth of their daughter Alice Lily May at 5.22am on 12 September 2019 weighing in at 7lb 7oz.
Congratulations and best wishes to them all.
Belated congratulations to Rosie Hunter and Gavin Pinchin who married back in the summer of 2019.
Rosie writes, "The wedding took place at St Mary's in Newbold on Stour, Whitchurch. We had a small ceremony of 100 people. We then returned to Talton Lodge to enjoy our wedding breakfast in a teepee! It was beautiful day."
We wish them every happiness for the future.
Princethorpians were saddened to hear, on 28 November 2019, about the death of Sr Mary Lawrence OSB, formerly of the Benedictine community at Princethorpe, which moved to Fernham in Oxfordshire in 1966. Sr Mary Lawrence last visited Princethorpe in 2001 when she attended the Mass commemorating the centenary of the church of Our Lady of the Angels, when the chief celebrant was the then Archbishop of Birmingham and now Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols.
Shortly afterwards, when the house at Fernham was dissolved because of a diminishing community, Sr Mary Lawrence and Sr Mary Placid, joined the Augustinian community at Boarbank Hall in Cumbria, where they quickly settled. Sr Mary Placid died a few years ago, but Sr Mary Lawrence lived with the community for over fifteen years where, strong in faith, she continued to receive visits from Princethorpe friends and past pupils, but became increasingly frail in recent years.
We extend our condolences to the former Fernham community and that at Boarbank Hall, but give thanks for a long and fulfilled life devoted to prayer and charity.
