Newman, John Henry, a distinguished cardinal
of the Roman Catholic Church, was
born in London February 21, 1801; was
graduated at Oxford in 1820, and for several
years was a tutor in the college. He
was a leader of the High-Church party in
the Church of England from the first, and
had great influence among the young men
at Oxford. He was ordained to the ministry
in the Church of England in 1824, but
in 1845 left that communion and united
with the Roman Catholic. He was made a
cardinal in 1879. He died in London August
11, 1890. He was the most prominent
and influential English Roman Catholic of
the nineteenth century. His collected works
include many well-known volumes on doctrinal
and ecclesiastical subjects. His
translations of Latin hymns and his original
hymns are found in Lyra Apostolica,
1836, and in Verses on Various Occasions,
1868. Only a few are in common use.
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