John Henry Newman

Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...

Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman , became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church , then a Catholic , and eventually a Cardinal. In 1828 John wrote to HM

This was the first of several moves made under the patronage of the eldest son, John Henry Newman , whose Oxford college, Oriel, was able to offer them a succession of tenancies. In October that...

HM was one of those for whom religion and politics were hardly distinguishable. In 1832, during the time leading up to the Reform Bill, she sounds like a Tory in politics as she observes with...

More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...

ML 's elder brother, William Mackay Laffan , became a dilettante medical student at what May called the unchartered useless Catholic University (the future National University of Ireland , founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman

JJ began his university studies. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (at pass level only) in 1902 from University College, Dublin, which had been founded in 1854 by John Henry Newman as the...

Before this she had worshipped, like her parents, at the City Temple , a leading Nonconformist church. The conversion surprised her friends and family, and her mother was particularly upset and hostile. Hobbes...

Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.

AG 's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman and his brother Francis W. Newman . Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG 's grandfather)....

In 1888 Pauline Craven (author of the novels Anne Severin and Eliane, both translated into English by Fullerton) published a biography of GF in French. Its subsequent translation and revision by Henry James Coleridge

JAF initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford , joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.

Because of her interest in contemporary theological debate, SC devoted her spring and summer to studying the works of John Henry Newman and of her father .

By this point in her life she was corresponding regularly with Frank Newman (younger brother of Cardinal Newman and of Harriett Mozley , who was an agnostic for most of his life). James Martineau ...

It was recommended to James Martineau by Francis W. Newman , brother of the famous tractarian , as a revelation of a pure, tender, ardent spirit. It was reviewed alongside Francis Newman 's Theism...