Roger Baxter

Roger Baxter (1784–1827) was an English Jesuit who traveled to the United States in 1817 to serve as a Catholic missionary in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. From 1819 to 1824, he served as Prefect of Studies at the newly founded Georgetown College (now Georgetown University). After a year in Europe in 1825, he left the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) but returned to the US and continued to serve missions in the mid-Atlantic. He died in Philadelphia. Provided by Wikipedia