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New Zealand Tablet, 31 January 1918, Page 13

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Colonel Rankin, head of the military hospitals in the Oxford area, has recently been received into the Church by Father Charles Plater, S.J., at Oxford. Mr. Morcom, the superintendent of the L. and N.-W. Railway Co. in the Midlands, has been received into the Church by Father Fred. J. Sandy, of Oscott College. : : y ; The Rev. Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, youngest son of the Bishop of Manchester, has been received into the Church. Mr. Knox.has frequently occupied the pulpits of the most extreme "ritualist" churches in London, .and was until recently a Fellow and chaplain of Trinity College, Oxford. He was received on September 22, at Farnborough Abbey, by the Abbot Cabrol, 0.5.8.... .....,.,,.,,....,? m .~v , ..,,:,, ~.^: . After being in the Anglican community for 23 years, Miss Pemberton, an American lady, has been received into the Catholic Church. . Sh» met the late Father Maturin when he was. in Philadelphia, and coming to England later, entered the All Saints' Sisterhood, an Anglican community, at St. Margaret Street, London, making her "profession" in 1885. Sent out to the branch of the Sisterhood in Baltimore, U.S.A., she was recalled on account of her religious doubts. Early this year she corresponded with a former Sister of this Anglican communitysince a convert, and now the Mother Superior of a convent in Sussex—and ultimately was received into the Church on the eve of All Saints' Day. A recent conversion to Catholicism of some note is that, of Colonel George Speirs Alexander Ranking, University Reader in Persian at Oxford, and at present Director of the Oxford Military Hospitals. Colonel Ranking, who was received into the Church a few weeks ago, is of Scots descent. He had a distinguished career at Cambridge, graduating with honors in medicine, has held various important appointments in India, and is a Fellow of Calcutta University, where he was formerly Professor of Chemistry. He is ; an M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford, as well as a B.A. of Cambridge, and has published valuable works, and many articles in reviews, dealing chiefly with questions of Oriental philology. He is one of the most accomplished Persian scholars now living. .-; - : The Tablet announces that Rev., Sydney Joseph Hall, 8.A., late curate of St. John's, Limehouse, and Rev. H. Norman Pole, of St. Philip's, Plaistow, Essex, have been received into the Catholic Church. - It is also announced that Revs! E. F. Nugent and W. A. Spence, recent converts, have arrived in Rome . and are pursuing their studies for the priesthood at the Accademia del Nobili Ecclesiastici. -.;...,... a | ;-..y - / The Tablet announces another notable conversion viz., that of Rev. Philip AldertonHighmore^-till lately Vicar of Huntshaw, in Devonshire, who has been received into the Church at Ilfracombe.