Bede JarrettBede Jarrett OP (22 August 1881 – 17 March 1934) was a notable historian and author as well as an English Dominican friar and Catholic priest. Jarrett, known for works such as Mediaeval Socialism and The Emperor Charles IV, also founded Blackfriars Piory at the University of Oxford in 1921, formally reinstalling the Dominican Order at that university for the first time since King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. Cyril Jarrett was born in Greenwich, the fifth of six sons to Colonel H.S. Jarrett, Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE), and Agnes (Beaufort) Jarrett. Jarrett began his studies at Stonyhurst in 1891 and entered the Order of Preachers (OP), generally known as the Dominican Order, in August 1898 at St Dominic's Priory in London. Jarrett resumed his studies at the novitiate at Woodchester and was ordained as a novice on September 24, 1898, with the new name Friar Bede. His religious name was derived from Bede, also known as "the Venerable Bede," an early British Catholic saint revered as the "Father of English History." Jarrett traveled to Hawkesyard Priory on August 30, 1900, to pursue his studies in philosophy, theology, and history. He gained minor orders, the subdiaconate, and the diaconate in 1902. Read More Read Less