Miscellaneous
NEWMAN
(John Henry, 1801-1890, Cardinal & Church Reformer)
Unsigned Autograph envelope front addressed
to the very Rev the Dean of Salisbury, Salisbury, 5 x 4, postmarked Birmingham, 2nd November
Item Date: 1885
Background
He was a theologian, academic, intellectual, philosopher, polymath, historian, writer, scholar and poet, first as an Anglican priest and later as a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century. He was known nationally by the mid-1830s,sig and was canonised as a saint in the Catholic Church in 2019.
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