English divine and author, born at Spridlington, Lincolnshire, on the 5th of September 1848. A scholar of Exeter College, Oxford, he took orders in the Church of England in 1872, but under Newman’s influence became a Roman Catholic, and from 1876–83 was a member of the Edgbaston Oratorian community. He changed his views, however, renounced Roman Catholicism, and became known as an agnostic and free-thinker. For some years he was librarian at the National Liberal Club in London, but in 1898 he was readmitted to the English Church, and from 1903 to his death he was rector of Bow Church, London. His absolute sincerity and great intellectual ability were recognized by all. He was the author of a Life of Manning (1892). He died at Blackheath on the 25th of March 1912. (See authored articles: Cardinal Henry Edward Manning, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, John Henry Newman.)
