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New Zealand Tablet, 25 April 1918, Page 39

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a ... The Pall Mall Gazette (London) the^other day contained this item: “It would be 'interesting to know the exact number of people of great intellect who were received into the Catholic Church in "England in recent years. The result “would cause -great - surprise.” So' it would ! v After reading the above it occurred to me, writes Scannell O'Neill, to make up a list of converts from the ranks of men and women of letters. The following list enumerates names of only such persons as have been received into the Church in England in recent years:— ‘ ; ■

Compton Mackenzie, Mary Angela Dickens (Charles Dickens’ grand-daughter), Max Pemberton, Lucas Malet (Mrs. St. Leger Harrison), Charles Kingsley’s daughter; Mrs. Blanche Warre Cornish (Thackeray’s niece) and her daughter, Mrs. Reginald Balfour; Cecil Chesterton (editor The Xew Witness) ; Ernest Oldmeadow ; “Guy Thorne” t (author of When It Was Dari;, etc); John William Conybeare-; Charlotte Graves (“Richard Dehan”) ; Anita Bartle ; Laurence Alma-Tadema ; Etheldreda Wilmot-Buxton ; Baroness d’Anethan' (Rider Haggard’s sister) ; Joseph Clayton Honorable Maurice Baring Edward Harrison Barker; Mrs. Stephen G Wynne ; John E. De Hirsch-Davies ; Lord Alfred Douglas Constance, Countess De La Warr; Ladv Alfred Douglas (Olive Custancc) : John E. Crawford Flitch ; Leslie Moore: Mrs. Robert Goff ; C. C. Martindale, S.J. : Frederick Landseer Griggs; Theodore Maynard (the poet) : Mrs. Coulson Kernahan ; Isabel Clarke L Mary Alice Vialls ; Rothay Reynolds; Robert Coningsby Clarke : Professor John Swynnerton !jPhillimore ; Bernard Holland: Christopher St. John ; Herbert Moore Pvm ..(“A. Newman”) ; Helen Parry Eden Norman Wise Sibley.; Richard Johnson Walker, editor of the Jin-fish Iferieir: ‘ Sir Charles PastonCooper ; Percy Cross Standing; Mrs. Arthur W. Hutton; Captain Henry Curteis.