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Bishop William Wareing was the first Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Northampton.Born 14 February 1791 in London and after studying at Oscott College William Wareing was ordained as a Catholic priest on 28 September 1815 aged 24 by Bishops Thomas Walsh Nicholas Wiseman (later Cardinal Wiseman) and George Hilary Brown.He worked first on the mission at Moseley then at Creswell Staffordshire until in 1831 when he moved to Grantham in Lincolnshire.