Roman Catholic cardinal and historian, born in London on the 5th of October 1846. He was educated at Downside College, Bath, afterwards becoming superior of the Downside Benedictine monastery (1878–84). He was created cardinal in 1914. He has produced various works on mediæval church history and liturgies, among them being Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries (1888–89); A Short History of the Catholic Church in England (1903); Parish Life in Mediæval England (1906) and The Bosworth Psalter (1908).
