Then and Now
The Antigonish ' Casket ' gives, in a recent number, a pleasing evidence of the gentler feeling now prevailing towards Catholics in British official circles, as compared with that which existed in the days when Nelstm swept the soas. ' The growth of toleration in England,' says our Nova Scotia contemporary, ' is seen in the fact that while Dr. Henry Dounet, a surgeon under Nelson, was never allowed to attain rank in the /navy, because of his being a Catholic, his son, Sir James Dounet, who died the other day iat the age of eightynine, was a K.C.B.— the first of his faith to receive that distinction— lnspector General of Fleets and Hospitals,, and honorary physician to Queen Victoria and King Edward.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 18
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122Then and Now New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 16, 20 April 1905, Page 18
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