Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

r in the firm of "Ramsbottom, Newman, Ramsbottom & Co., 72 Lombard Street, which appears in the lists of London bankers from 1807 to 1816 inclusive." He tells us that the family of "Newman" (or,

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p of the school. Frank was captain in 1821. There was some talk of removing John Henry after he had spent some years there, but he himself begged to be allowed to remain a little longer. Miss Anne Mozley, in her Life and Correspondence of John Henry Newman, quotes Dr. Nicholas as having said, "No boy had run through the school from

gly curious chances which sometimes change a man's, or a woman's, whole outlook; and beginning, as it seems at the time, quite

lays the hand that none can resist on the handle of some door which opens of itself into a new, a wider world. Before one is a

e, Oxford), who was one of the classical masters. Long religious talks with him had a great effect upon his mind, and he himself traces much of his spiritual development to Mr. Mayer's point of view in religion. He was what is known as a "h

ions in preparation for entering Worcester College in 1822. [Footnote: They lodged first at Scale's Coffee House in 1821, then at Palmer's, in Merton Lane, in 1822. Both now are pulled down.] In Anne Mozley's volume there occur several entries regardin

nism between them as regarded their points of view- religious, social, political, etc. And this notwithstanding the fact that a very real affection for eac

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ies. Both, when the time came for judging for themselves, threw aside the grim tenets whi

fore Frank Newman went to college, which reveals to the thoughtful reader a

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ught it a sin to write a letter on Sunday. I found dear F-- had refused to copy one. A scene ensued more painf

he writings of Dr. Doddridge.] was certainly under the Calvinistic influence still, and that he was very dogged in upholding its rules and restrictions. During the last months of the year 1822, the latter read with his broth

a language, in fact is a much better Greek scholar than I.... Again, he is a much bette

trial; for though his father took the Alton brewery and tried to make his way in this new line, yet it was not a successful venture. Happily, by this time, J. H. Newman was not only able to maintain himself, but also to help his people. Rev. T. Mozley mentions

The college authorities described his as one of the best "Double Firsts" ever known. As, however, he felt conscientious

eable to that irreligious old sensualist, the father of Queen Elizabeth. One sees that it dated back to the time when the Church in this country began to be more especially "by Law established," instead of "by Christ established," as was the case in early ages of its formation. One sees, too, that part of the reasons for this preface being set forth was very evidently th

c religion (some writers, I am aware, consider that to have been more Puritan than Calvinistic), given them by their mother in their childhood days, John Henry Newman had drawn ever closer to the authority of the Church, while Francis found himself seceding more and more from her, and

ne in every five could be called religious-minded. So that the influence of these two young men, whose very evident p

communions at certain stated intervals because of the fact that he himself had seen some of them get intoxicated at the college "break

oodstock, near Oxford. Mr. Bateman, in his Life of Bishop Wilson (1860), says "their united population, consisting of farmers and agricultural labourers, does not exceed two hundred." From one village to the other is a distance of about three-quar

to have preached too "straight" for some, for after some sermon he had given in an adjoining parish, a lad

844 "as almost to destroy its identity." The chalice in Over Worton Church has the date 1574 upon it. The rectory is about one hundred years old. The low building attached to it on the left (in the photograph) was added in 1823. The p

asked Frank Newman, during the Long Vacation, to come and help him in teaching the pupils who came to read with him at Worton. Newman was then nineteen. He had been four years longer at the Ealing School, under the tuition of Walter Mayers, than his brother, who had gone to Oxford, according to the notion preva

rne that the two families of Newman and Giberne first became acquai

ne, Sieur de Gibertène, in the sixteenth century. The family owned two castles in the country of the Cevennes, which were destroyed by the Camisards. In the seventeenth century some of the family came

Pearson. It was in the spring of 1823 that Sarah and Charlotte Giberne spent a week with John Whitmore and his wife, Maria, the daughter of their father's partner, Mr. St

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side at Walthamstow, about two miles from our home" (they were living at Wanstead), "the Rev. William Wilson

. On making enquiry concerning him, we found that he was Mr. Wilson's curate at Worton, in Oxfordshire, and that he received pupils into his house. Later, their brother, Charles Gibe

and Frank Newman. The latter was spending the Long Vacation with Mr. Mayers to assist him in teaching the young men, though he

as our daily companion, and took great pains in instructing Sarah (Mrs. Walter Mayers) and myself in Political Economy. His talents and piety attracted my admiration, for I had neve

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Mayers, and then began my first acquaintance with John Henry Newman and his brother Frank. The former having walked over from Oxford,

red converted in early youth, and so uncommon an event was it to me to meet with Christian young men" (men, that is, whose religion was their motive power, and not only used in the conventional and cold formality then usual in the

rth-the time when they first meet "the Woman they Never Forget." It does not follow that they are able to marry her, bu

only twenty-one whe

us subjects passed between them. But though he cared for her, evidently her feeling for him was only that of friendship and interest, for when, later, he asked her to marry him, she refused. He did not, however, take t

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extracts are taken from an autobiography of hers, which was originally written in French for the nuns of the "Order of the

iption of Worton (to which I have ac

e two friends appeared, and I enjoyed hearing them talk, having a great respect for learned men, although far from being learned myself. I asked them questions and propounded religious difficulties which troubled me. I was struck with his (Frank Newman's) piety, which had nothing affected about it like the manner of some good people. We often talked whilst I was s

Harriet who had a way I could not understand, and who embarrassed me greatly by her knowledge of religious matters, because I had thought that I might be able to lead them to the good way, [Footnote: In some notes she expressly says this was Frank Newman's suggestion primarily.] and behold, they seemed to know all beforehand, and

d no settled home, but moved from place to place. It happened that one of Maria Rosina's married sisters was

Newman. It was a great pleasure, for I had heard so much about him, and I enjoyed seeing him though he spoke very little to me, and paid me no compliments or special attentions like most youn

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ch other young men paid her, could yet appreciate and admire these delicate thoughtfulnesses which this young man, who saw so much further into the inner he

By the kindness of Father Bacchus.] there is a rather different account, in which the

st altogether with the thought of how to rid myself of the narrow religion which was becoming every day more unbearable, and also because I had no other thought for him than for Robert." (Ro

endship which lasted unbroken to the end. When he went to Rome for the red hat, he was too i

ttle cottage at Horspath (near Nuneham, in 1829), at which the Newmans were staying. It had been o

ne nose, well-formed mouth, dark penetrating eyes, and a luxuriance of glossy black hair. She would command attention anywhere.... She was very early the warmest and most appreciative of Newm

o send to her eldest brother, George Giberne (at Dhoolia, Candeish), afterwards Judge in th

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went to Rome, where for twenty years she studied art and copied pictures "for the use," Mr. Mozley says, "of English chapels." Years after, when my aunt was in the convent of the Order of Visitation at Autun, she wrote an interesting letter to

ssing in my heart of hearts all the circumstances of those few days-my first visit to your dear family.... Who could ever have been acquainted with the soul and heart that lent their expression to that face, and not love her? My sister Fanny and I arrived at you

n ill at dinner, and on t

collect that you and I are the

of Oxford, 1838, it is said that in former days Littlemore was beautifully wooded, and that in Saxon times there was a convent (of which there still remain some ruins) which was called by the Saxon name of the "Mynchery," and which belonged to the nuns of the Benedictine Order, and the church which Alfred built on the site of the University Church of to-day, was known as early as the Conquest as "Our Lady of Littl

, did not approve of his popularity with the undergraduates, and in Canon Carter's Life and Letters of Archdeacon Hutchings, there is a note showing this:-"I went to Christ Church in 1827.... Newman was at Oriel, a

in them, more than for any hint of the spirit of Churchmanship which distinguished his other works so much. J. H. Newman had been a tutor at Oriel College since 1826. Oriel College, Rev. Thomas Mozley tells us, was then "held to be in the very front of academic progress ... with a Provost" (Edward Hawkins) "who owed his electio

adowed" him in the eyes of the world to a large extent. A friend of mine, writing to me a short time since, said that a state

Both were mental Samsons- giants among the crowd of those who never see a yard beyond their own narrow scope of vision

ey worked. And it is possible to have a great brotherly affection notwith