"His bright spirits and kindly genial ways, the outward expression of a soul which combined with its deep sense of religion a noble and generous disposition, won not only from his personal friends, but from all with whom he came in contact, an admiration and kindly feeling such as only a few have the power to excite."
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Edmund Knight, Memoirs of Francis Kerril Amherst, D. D., Lord Bishop of Northampton (1903)
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Francis Kerril Amherst
Francis Kerril Amherst (21 March 1819 – 21 August 1883) was an English prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Northampton.
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