CONVERTS TO ROME A LIST OF ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND PROTESTANTS WHO HAVE RECENTLY BECOME KOMAN CATHOLICS. COMPILED BY W. GORDON GORMAN, EDITOR OF THE TWO LAST EDITIONS OF "ROME'S RECRUITS." SECOND im^mT^^^mll EDITION. LONDON : AY. SWAN SONNENSCHEIN AND CO., PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1885. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. the CONSIDERING the reception which has been accorded to " new issue of Converts to Eome," and bearing in mind the comments of the Press, 1 think it necessary to make a few observations on points which will interest my readers. As several reviewers, notably those connected with Dissenting Organs, have been under the impression that I have been honoured by the assistance of the Premier in the compilation of my work, it will be as well to state that the following of the letter, written by Mr. Gladstone to the late Editor Whitehall Review, has been the sole cause why the right honourable gentleman's name appears in my preface : "Hawarden, Oct. 11, 1878. " DP;AR SIR, " I thank you for sending me the Whitehall Review with the various lists of secessions to the Koman Church. I am glad they have been collected, and I am further glad to hear they are to be published in the form of a pamphlet. For good, according to some, or for evil, according to others, they form as a group an event of much interest and significance. "It would very greatly add to the value of the coming pamphlet, if an approximate statement of dates could be made part of it. To give the year in each case would probably be difficult it difficult to decades 1 very ; but would be give Say IV PKEFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. from 1820 or 1830. Even to divide yet more largely would still be useful ; as thus : 1. Before 1840. 2. 18401860. 3. Since 'I860. "You will, I am sure, excuse this suggestion, and again accept my thanks. " I remain, " Yours very faithfully, "W. E. GLADSTONE." I regret to find that the following names inadvertently appeared in the lists : Rev. S. W. Wayte, B.D., late President of Trinity College, Oxford. General Brine, K.E. D. C. Lathbury, Esq., Brasenose Coll., Oxon. J. O. Halliwell-Phillips, Esq. The late Lucius Kelly, Esq., Barrister. These gentlemen have not joined the Catholic Church, and my apologies are due to them for being the unwilling medium of propagating that which was not correct. The name of Lady Chichester should not have been given, as I am informed by a near relative of her ladyship that the " family never deserted the Old Faith." A doubt which I confess to having at first entertained as to the propriety of giving publicity to a spiritual change, of which the world took little note, has long since proved, I am glad to say, to be without foundation. Not one letter of an objecting nature has reached on the yet me ; contrary, publicity has been courted with a frankness which speaks well for the con- stancy, the self-respect, and even enthusiasm of the con- verts. In a critique which appeared in the columns of the Record PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. V it was stated that the converts from Koine to Protestantism greatly outnumbered my list. Xow I have a brochure entitled, " Protestant Recruits," compiled by Montagu Eussell Butler, " Esq. The little work gives the names of 420 Converts to Protestantism" from all parts of the habitable globe, but I beg leave to question whether one half of the number have really become Protestants. Had I acted on the suggestions of some, and had given a list embracing all members of society, I should have had to publish a volume which for dimensions would have favourably " compared with the Post-Office Directory," a task from which, I think, I have wisely shrunk. My main object has been to " issue a work which, according to the Christian Globe, gives one a startling view of the rapid advancement which Roman late Catholicism has made of years in certain quarters ;" and the " Christian says, A glance through its pages will astonish some people who doubt the increase of Popery in these days." In justice to myself, I have to state that I had nothing to do " with the early editions of Rome's Recruits." Most of the inaccuracies, I find, have occurred in those editions, therefore I am not answerable for them. At the same time, I must say, in all fairness to the late editor of the Whitehall Review, that it was that gentleman's great desire to have the lists most scrupulously accurate. I have been enabled to add new names to this edition many ; have obtained dates of conversion, and have corrected a few orthographical errors. Some who have taken a great interest in my work would have been glad to be able to ascertain from what denomination each convert has been recruited, and the individual cause of to the Roman Church to submitting ; but with regard these matters, I can only add that the necessary information would be most difficult to procure. In conclusion, it will be found by a cursory inspection of the that there is lists, hardly a single English noble family that has not given one or more of its members to the Roman VI PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. Catholic Church, and the intercourse thus opened between the two formerly uncommunicating camps has resulted in a feeling of mutual good-will and friendliness which the greatest intellects and the largest hearts on each side cordially W. G. G. CONVERTS TO ROME. THE NOBILITY AND GENTKY. THE late Duke of Leeds The late Earl of Buchan. (Francis, 7th), who sat in The late Edward, Earl of Castle the House of Commons as Stuart. (1834.) Marquis of Carmarthen. The Earl of Denbigh (Rudolph The Marquis of Bute (John William Basil Feilding), Count - Patrick Crichton Stuart), of the Holy Roman Empire : LL.D., K.T., Knight Grand Knight Grand Cross of the Cross of the Order of Pius Yice- President Holy Sepulchre, ; Knight of the Order of St. of the Aged Poor Society. Gregory the Great and Here- (1850.) ditary Keeper of Rothesay The late Earl of Dunraven. Castle ; Christ College, Ox- (1855.) ford. (1869.) The late Earl of Gainsborough The Marquis of Ripoii (George (Charles George Noel), Knight Frederick Samuel Robinson), of the Order of Christ : K.G., P.C., G.M.S.I., D.C.L., Lord-Lieutenant and Gustos ox-Grand Master of Free- Rotulorum of Rutlandshire. masons of the ; Chairman (1851.) Catholic Poor-School Com- The Earl of Granard (George mittee Lord Pre- Arthur ; formerly Hastings Forbes), sident of Council, sometime K.P., Knight and President Governor-General of India. in Great Britain and Ireland of the Order of Malta (1874.) ; Knight The Earl of Abingdon, Lieu- Grand Cross of the Order of St. the Great Lieu- tenant-Colonel of the Berk- Gregory ; shire Militia and President of tenant - Colonel commanding the Portsmouth Voluntary 9th battalion P.C.O, Rifle School Association. one of the Senate (1858.) Brigade ; The Earl of Ashburnham (Ber- of the Royal University of tram Ashburnham), Knight Ireland, and President of the of the Order of St. John of Catholic Union of Ireland. Jerusalem, and Knight Grand (1869.) Cross of the Order of Pius. The Earl of Orford (Horatio (1872.) William Walpole), of Trinity 1 CONVERTS TO ROME. College, Cambridge, formerly Lord North (William' Henry M.P. for Norfolk and J.P. and North), grandson of the 3rd D.L. for same county. Earl of Guilford, and son of The late Earl of Eoscommon. the late Baroness North. (1850.) Lord Bennet, of the Rifle Viscount Bury (William Coutts Brigade, second son of the Lord Earl of Tankerville at one Keppel, Ashford), P.C., ; F.R.G.S., Knight Commander time Midshipman, Royal Navy, of St. Michael and and St. George ; A.D.C. to Lord -Lieu- late Under-Secretary of State tenant of Ireland. (1879.) for War (during the late Lord The late Lord Albert Sidney Beaconsfield's Administration, Pelham-Clinton, son of the 5th 1874-80) ; Lieutenant-Colonel Duke of Newcastle. of the 12th Middlesex R.V.C. ; (1884.) Vice-President of the Ports- Lord Courtenay, of Christ Col- mouth School As- Oxford and D.L. Voluntary lege, ; J.P. sociation eldest son of the for for time ; Devonshire, some Earl of Albemarle, who fought Captain 1st Devon Yeomanry at Waterloo. for (1879.) Cavalry ; formerly M.P. Lord Beaumont Exeter and East (Henry Staple- Devonshire ; ton), of the 17th Lancers, eldest son of the Earl of Knight Grand Cross of the Devon. (1870.) Holy Sepulchre, and Knight Lord Archibald Edward Douglas, of Malta J.P. for West son of the of ; 7th Marquis of York for a ; D.L. Director Riding Queensberry ; priest, Middlesex, has Military Orders of St. Vincent's Home for from King of Bavaria and Boys, Harrow Road, London, Grand Dukes of and Mecklenburg W. ; Chaplain of the and Baden. of St. de (1869.) Society' Vincent Lord Braye (Alfred Thomas Paul. Townshend Verney-Cave), of Lord Nigel Kennedy, brother of Christ Church, Oxford, for- the Marquis of Ailsa. (1850.) merly Captain 3rd Battalion Lord A. Gilbert Kennedy, ditto. Leicestershire J.P. Regiment ; (1850.) and D.L. for Leicestershire and The late Rev. Lord Henry of Francis of St. Northamptonshire ; Knight Kerr, M.A., Malta. John's (1870.) College, Cambridge ; Lord Emly (William Monsell), J.P. for Devonshire and Rector of Oriel of Dittisham of P.C., M.A., College, ; son the Oxford Lord-Lieutenant of 6th ; Marquis of Lothian.