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media type="custom" key="10484436" = = John Bede Polding (1794-1877), Catholic archbishop, was born on 18 November 1794 at Liverpool, England. His father's family was dutch and his mother came from the Brewer family, since the sixteenth century. His family name was also spelt poulden or polten.

His parents died, and at the age of 8 he was placed in the care of his uncle, Father Bede Brewer. Polding was first taught by the Benedictine nuns of the Convent of Our Lady of Consolation of Cambray, who as refugees from France were located at Much Woolton, near Liverpool. At 11 he was sent to St Gregory's Benedictine College, at Acton Burnell, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire. On 15 July 1810 Polding was admitted to the religious community, taking the name of Bede.

Father John Bede Polding died on the 16th March 1877 at the age of 83 years old.