John Henry Newman

21 February 1801 - 11 August 1890

Standard Name: Newman, John Henry

Used Form: Cardinal Newman

Used Form: J. H. Newman

JHN 's many writings on theology and education were an important component of his career as Victorian religious seeker, teacher, and man of letters.

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Cultural formation	Harriett Mozley	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...
Cultural formation	Muriel Spark	The writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman were very influential in MS 's religious education, since she found she could identify with Newman's personal style as well as his ideas. Father Philip Caraman , a...
Cultural formation	Emily Hickey	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. qtd. in Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927. 43, 41 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 169 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Cultural formation	John Oliver Hobbes	Before this she had worshipped, like her parents, at the City Temple , a leading Nonconformist church. Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton, 1945. 36 Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934. 99 The conversion surprised her friends and family, and her mother was particularly upset and hostile. Hobbes...
Education	C. E. Plumptre	Though nothing is know of CEP 's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...
Education	James Joyce	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...
Education	Sara Coleridge	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 . Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 94
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriett Mozley	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. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. xvi In 1828 John wrote to HM
Family and Intimate relationships	Ethel M. Arnold	Her father, Thomas Arnold the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold , of Rugby . The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican family, but her father shocked his family by converting to...
Family and Intimate relationships	Agnes Giberne	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)....
Family and Intimate relationships	May Laffan	ML 's elder brother, William Mackay Laffan , became a dilettante medical student at what May called the unchartered useless Catholic University qtd. in Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 36 (the future National University of Ireland , founded in 1854 with John Henry Newman
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW 's mother, born Julia Sorell , was the granddaughter of William Sorell , who was Governor of Tasmania from 1775 to 1848 and a flagrant adulterer. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 6, 5 Julia Sorell's mother, born Elizabeth Julia Kemp
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriett Mozley	HM became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman (after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism . Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. 33, 163
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Sewell	The leaders she met included John Keble , John Henry Newman , and Henry Wilberforce ; she also met Charlotte Yonge . Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907. 62-3 It was soon after this meeting that Newman, Wilberforce, and Edward Bellasis all joined the Catholic Church .
Friends, Associates	Frances Power Cobbe	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 ...

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Later 1841

Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England to aid the Roman Catholic missions; he later became a famous missionary through his conversions, the most notable of these being John Newman .