educated several of his sons at Ampleforth. In 1986, their correspondence, edited by the Saint Louis lawyer Christian Peper, is collected in An Historian's Conscience. During this period he also helped to establish a Catholic seminary in Cameroon. In his later years, he returned to Ampleforth, but made ecumenical and spiritual renewal visits to Catholic communities and clerical establishments in the Philippines, Australia, India, and Chile. At nearly 90, he was appointed the Titular Abbot of Westminster in 1992. Death Dom Columba Cary-Elwes died on 22 January 1994, aged 90, at York Hospital. He was buried at Ampleforth. Family Columba Cary-Elwes is related to the painters Dominick Elwes and Simon Elwes and the diplomat and tenor Gervase Cary Elwes, respectively the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of the actor Cary Elwes, the painter Damian Elwes, and the film producer Cassian Elwes. Bibliography An Historian's Conscience: The Correspondence of Arnold J. Toynbee and Columba Cary-Elwes- Monk of Ampleforth with Christian B., Peper and Arnold Joseph Toynbee (1986) The Beginning of Goodness (1947) A Simple Way of Love, edited and introduced by Cary-Elwes (1948) Law, Liberty and Love; A Study in Christian Obedience; Foundation of European Civilisation (1949) Ampleforth and its Origins. Essays ... by members of the Ampleforth Community, edited with Abbot Justin McCann, with plates by Philip Justin Maccann and Cary Elwes (1952) The Sheepfold and the Shepherd (1956) China and the Cross; a Survey of Missionary History (1957) Monastic Renewal (1967) Experience with God: A Dictionary of Spirituality (1986) Work & Prayer: The Rule of St. Benedict for Lay People, with Catherine Wybourne. London: Burns & Oates, Turnbridge Wells (1992) References Further reading In Good Soil: The Founding of the Saint Louis Priory and School, 1954–1973 by Fr. Timothy Horner, OSB External links Columba Cary-Elwes at CatholicAuthors.com Obituary at English Benedictine Congregation website Obituary at The Independent Saint Louis Abbey 1903 births 1994 deaths 20th-century English Roman Catholic priests 20th-century British Roman Catholic theologians Alumni of St Benet's Hall, Oxford English Benedictines English priors Schoolteachers from Yorkshire People educated at Ampleforth College Writers from London