Francis Mostyn (vicar apostolic of the Northern District)

Francis George Mostyn (1800–1847) was a Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England from 1840 to 1847.[1] He was born in 1800, the son of Charles Browne Mostyn, of Kidlington, Oxfordshire, by his second wife, Miss Tucker.[2] Francis began his education at St Mary's College, Oscott in 1813, leaving three years later, only to return as an ecclesiastical student in December 1822.[3] He was appointed the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District and Titular Bishop of Abydus on 22 September 1840.[1][2] He died in office at Durham on 11 August 1847, aged 47,[1] and was buried in the cemetery at Ushaw College.
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