William Walter Roberts
1830–1911
Roman Catholic priest. MA, Oxford (Merton College). Converted to Catholicism. Attended T. H. Huxley’s lectures and was a friend of St G. J. Mivart. Seceded from the Catholic Church. Married Anne Shannan Caird in 1878.
Sources
Alum. Oxon.
England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1966 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 May 2013)
familysearch.org (Community Trees; accessed 14 May 2013)
London, England, births and baptisms, 1813–1906 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 May 2013)
Nineteenth Century 42 (1897): 994
‘Rome’s recruits:’ a list of Protestants who have become Catholics since the Tractarian Movement (London: The Whitehall Review, 1878).
Bibliography
Alum. Oxon.: Alumni Oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1886: … with a record of their degrees. Being the matriculation register of the university. Alphabetically arranged, revised, and annotated by Joseph Foster. 8 vols. London and Oxford: Parker & Co. 1887–91.
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