Converts to Romanism

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 24, 1878

Converts to Romanism.

EIGHT columns and a half of the Whitehall Review is occupied in giving lists of converts to Romanism among the upper classes during this generation. It includes the names of a duke, three marquises, five earls, fifteen barons and lords, taking no account of courtesy titles; seven baronets, three knights, a general, an admiral, ten members of parliament, four queen's counsel, four professors, one hundred and sixty-eight beneficed clergymen, of whom sixty-seven have become priests or entered the Jesuit order, and one hundred and ninety gentlemen, sons of peers, fellows, etc., of whom fifty-one have become priests or Jesuits; also five duchesses, thirty-eight peeresses, wives of baronets and knights, etc., and thirty-three other ladies of position. The tendency of the converts to "go over" in whole families is noticeable, and in many cases there are three or four relatives who have taken orders in the Catholic church. Among the converts here mentioned, omitting those not specially distinguished except by rank, are Arnold of Rugby's son, Thomas; Burnand, author of "Happy Thoughts;" Bellew, the elocutionist; Miss Emily Bowles, the authoress; Mrs. Ross Church (Florence Marryat); Miss Cusack ("The Nun of Kenmare"); Miss Froude, niece of the historian; Miss Gladstone, sister of the ex-premier; Henry J. and Charles J. Karslake, who both entered the priesthood; the Rev. R. G. Osborne, son of "S. G. O.;" Paley's grandson, a professor at Cambridge; Coventry Patmore; Pugin, the architect; Adelaide Anne Proctor, Prof. Pepper; Whately's nephew, J. O'Fallon Pope, M. A., Cambridge; the Rev. Philip Rose ("Arthur Sketchley"); Mrs. Hope-Scott, Sir Walter's granddaughter; Elizabeth Thompson, painter of "The Roll Call," and Wilberforce's eldest son, an M. P.