Basil W. Maturin

Deceased Person

1847 – 1915

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Who was Basil W. Maturin?

Basil William Maturin was an Irish-born Anglican priest, preacher and writer who later became Roman Catholic. He died on board the RMS Lusitania, during the First World War.

Dr. Maturin was born in Ireland in 1847 to William Basil and Jane Maturin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was a grandson of writer Charles Maturin and the second cousin of Oscar Wilde. In 1876, he was sent to Philadelphia. There, Maturin had been the rector of Saint Clement's Church, Philadelphia. Maturin became a Roman Catholic in 1897 and was ordained by his friend Herbert Vaughan in 1898. Maturin was also author of several books on religious and psychological topics including Laws of the Spiritual Life, Self-Knowledge and Self-Discipline, Christian Self-Mastery, and The Price of Unity

In 1913 he was appointed the Catholic chaplain to the University of Oxford. In 1915, at the age of 68, he made a successful preaching tour of the United States, booking a return passage on the Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania. He was among the 1198 victims when the Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk on 7 May, 1915 by a German submarine.

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Born
Feb 15, 1847
Ireland
Also known as
  • Basil Maturin
Education
  • Trinity College, Dublin
Died
May 7, 1915
Atlantic Ocean

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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