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Wiseman, Nicholas
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or Cardinal and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, born at Seville, of Irish parents; studied at a Roman Catholic college near Durham and the English college at Rome, of which he became rector; lectured in London in 1836 on the Doctrines of the Catholic Church, and in 1840 became vicar-apostolic, first in the central district of England, then of the London district in 1846, and was in 1850 named Archbishop of Westminster by the Pope; this was known in England as the "papal aggression," which raised a storm of opposition in the country, but this storm Wiseman, now cardinal, succeeded very considerably in allaying by a native courtesy of manner which commended him to the regard of the intelligent and educated classes of the community; he was a scholarly man, and a vigorous writer and orator (1802-1865).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Wiseman, Nicholas'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/wiseman-nicholas.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
