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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4307, 16 March 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

- The death of an aged priest, who is part of the religions history of London is reported. This was the Kev Eichard Stanton, of the Oratory, South Kensington. Fifty-five years ago he joined the Homan Catholic Church, in company with his friend, Frederick William Faber, the popular hymn-writer. Father Stanton was the first of the little convert community to return from Italy to England clothed in the Oratorian habit—the precursor of Newman, Faber, and the rest. In King William street. Strand, the building that afterwards became Toole’s Theatre was the first resting-place of the Oratorians. Three years ago, at the great establishment which adjoins the South Kensington Museum, Father Stanton celebrated, in tremulous old age, the golden jubilee of his priesthood English singers and pianists are gradually making their mark in Germany. 'Mr Frederick Dawson, Mr Leonard Berwick, and Mr Ben Davies are already appreciated there. The amateurs of the Fatherland have recently applauded the singing of Mr Gregory Hast, the well-known tenor, who has just made such a success at Frankfort.