Writer; born Shrewsbury, England, 1802; died Islington, England, 1880. He was a Fellow of Balliol and Anglican incumbent of Margaret Chapel, London, but followed Newman into the Catholic Church, and was ordained priest, 1847. His chief works include: Aristotelean and Platonic Ethics; The Subject of Tract XC examined; Life of Saint Augustine; Historical Notes on the Tractarian Movement. He exercised wide influence by his personality and his writings.
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