Born: May 30, 1796, Bristol, England.
Died: October 31, 1872, Costessey, Norfolk, England.
Frederick was the son of a Bristol wine merchant (emigrated from Mannheim, Germany, to England), and a Miss James (from a Cornish family).
A convert to Catholicism, he was sent at age seven to Sedgley Park School in Staffordshire, and at fourteen entered his father’s counting-house.
Having resolved, three years later, to study for the priesthood, he returned to Sedgley, going afterward to Oscott College, where he was ordained by John Milner in February 1820.
After serving the Stourbridge mission, near Oscott, for a time, he was sent to Cossey Hall, Norfolk, as chaplain to Sir George Stafford Jerningham, who became Baron Stafford in 1825. He took up his residence in a cottage in the village, and ministered to the Catholics of the mission until within a few months of his death.
During this period of more than half a century, he is said to have been absent from his mission only on three Sundays. Seven years after his appointment to Cossey, he became grand vicar under Bishop Walsh, successor of Bishop Milner as vicar Apostolic of the Midland District.
In 1841 he opened St. Wulstan’s Chapel, for which he had collected funds, and in 1850 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Rome.
Shortly after the restoration of the English hierarchy by Pope Pius IX, Husenbeth was nominated provost of the Chapter of Northampton, and Vicar-General of the diocese. In the spring of 1872 he resigned his mission, and he died at St. Wulstan’s Presbytery on the last day of October in the same year.
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