SALUSBURY
,
JOHN
(
1575
-
1625
), or
John
Parry
,
Jesuit and scholar
;
b. in
Merionethshire
,
1575
, a member possibly of the
Salusbury
of
Rug
family (q.v.)
. He went to the
Jesuit College
at
Valladolid
,
22 June 1595
, was ordained
priest
21 Nov. 1600
, and was sent in
May 1603
to
England
where, in
1605
, he joined the
Society of Jesus
. When
Fr.
Robert Jones
d. in
1615
,
Salusbury
succeeded him as
Superior of the North and South Wales District
and went to live at
Raglan castle
where he was
chaplain
to
lady
Frances
Somerset
. In
1622
he founded the
College of S. Francis Xavier
, of which he became
principal
, at
Cwm
in the parish of
Llanrhyddol
,
Hereford
. He d. in
1625
when on the point of leaving for
Rome
to take up the post of
procurator
of the province of
England
of the
Society of Jesus
.
Salusbury
translated
into
Welsh
an
Italian
book by
cardinal
Bellarmine
to which he gave the title
Eglurhad Helaethlawn o'r Athrawiaeth Gristnogawl
; it was printed at
S. Omer College
,
1618
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
and the authorities quoted therein.
Author:
Emyr Gwynne Jones, M.A., (1911-72), Bangor
