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THOMAS WILLIAM ALLIES (1813-1903)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 696 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS WILLIAM ALLIES (1813-1903)  ,
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English
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historical writer, was born at Midsomer Norton, near Bristol, on the 12th of
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February 1813 . He was educated at
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Eton and at Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became a
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fellow in 1833 . In 1840 Bishop Blomfield of
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London appointed him his examining
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chaplain and presented him to the rectory of Launton, Oxfordshire, which he resigned in 1850 on becoming a
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Roman Catholic . Allies was appointed secretary to the Catholic poor school committee in 1853, a position which he occupied till 1890 . He died in London on the 17th of
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June 1903 . Allies was one of the ablestof the English churchmen who joined the Church of Rome in the early period of the Oxford
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movement, his chief
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work, The Formation of Christendom (London, 8 vols., 1865–1895) showing much originality of thought and historical knowledge . His other writings: St Peter, his Name and Office (1852); The See of St Peter, the Rock of the Church (1850); Per Crucem ad Lucem (2 vols., 1879), have gone through many
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editions and been translated into several
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languages . See his autobiography, A
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Life's Decision (1880) ; and the study by his daughter, Mary H . Allies, Thomas Allies, the Story of a Mind (London, 1906), which contains a full bibliography of his
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works .

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