Letters And Diaries of John Henry Newman : The Final Step, November 1843 – 6 …
It begins with Francis Rivington’s refusal to publish. John Henry Newman (1801-90) was brought up in the Church of England in the Evangelical tradition. An Oxford graduate and Fellow of Oriel College, he was appointed Vicar of St Mary’s Oxford in 1828; from 1839 onwards he began to have doubts about the claims of the Anglican Church and in 1845 he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
