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- 1896 (Creation)
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vi, 174 pp; 19 cm x 13 cm
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James Doogan was born in Dublin in 1841. He was received into the Capuchin Order in their novitiate in Bologna in 1860 and remained in Italy following his ordination. He arrived in India in about 1867 and was appointed principal of St. George’s School in Mussoorie in the northern state of Uttarakhand. The school had been founded by the Capuchin fathers in 1853. Doogan remained principal until 1873 when the school was entrusted to the care of the Society of the Brothers of St. Patrick (the Irish Patrician Brothers). Afterwards, he was appointed a military chaplain with British forces stationed in India. He served in Nusseerabad (also known as Nasirabad) where he contracted cholera but recovered. He served with distinction during the Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80) and returned to India at the conclusion of the hostilities. He was a life-long temperance campaigner and wrote several pamphlets on the dangers of intoxicating liquor. He contracted influenza in May 1899 which led him to be hospitalised in the Military Station Hospital in Chakrata in Uttarakhand. He died there on 29 July 1899. He was given a ceremonial military funeral by the British Army.
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Author: Fr. James Doogan OFM Cap. (1841-1899)
Publisher: Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.
Language: English
Full title: 'Manual of temperance / “the League of the Cross” / Roman Catholic Temperance Society'; Portrait of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on frontispiece.
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Bound in contemporary hard covers with gilt title to spine. Internally, the volume is firmly bound.