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and the controversy about John Henry Newman's Jewish Ancestry notes by Patrick Killough (a work in progress)
Leonard Feeney in the 20th Century drew on Canon William Barry as his source that the father of John Henry Newman was of Jewish ancestry. When challenged on this point by Newman biographer Wilfrid Ward, Canon Barry apparently said that his source was Arthur Wollaston Hutton. Hutton then told Ward that he had never categorically said that Newman was of Jewish ancestry. There is some problem with chronology. The earliest
statement I have found on "Newman the Jew" by Canon Barry dates from his 1904
NEWMAN. The Enclyclopedia Britannica article appears to date, however, seven
years later -- from 1911. It is, of course possible, that Hutton published
(or spoke) his opinion earlier than 1911. Barry could have heard the opinion
directly from Hutton (who for years lived in Cardinal Newman's Birmingham
Oratory as a Roman Catholic priest converted from the Anglican faith by
Newman himself. After Newman's death Hutton returned to the Church of England. Much remains to be resolved. Patrick Killough "The author of the llth edition Britannica article was Arthur Wollaston Hutton, Rector of Bow Church Cheapside, London, formerly Librarian of the National Liberal Club and author of a Life of Cardinal Manning and the editor of the late century 6 volume edition of the Lives of the English Saints. This information is in the author notes of my edition of the llth." [Source 1/25/2004 private email communication from a professor at Yale University. TPK] ==-=-=-=-= And here is what Hutton wrote on the
subject in 1911. http://63.1911encyclopedia.org/N/NE/NEWMAN_JOHN_HENRY.htm
"JOHN HENRY NEWMAN NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY (1801-1890), English
Cardinal, was born in London on the 21st of February 1801, the eldest son
of John Newman, banker, of the firm of Ramsbottom, Newman and Co. The
family was understood to be of Dutch extraction, and the name itself, spelt
Newmann in an earlier generation, further suggests Hebrew origin. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=- Christian Classics Etherial Library
HUTTON, ARTHUR WOLLASTON: Church of England; b. at Spridlington (28 m. s. of Hull), Lincolnshire, Sept. 5, 1848. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford (B.A., 1871), and was ordered deacon in 1871 and ordained priest in 1872. He was curate of St. Bamabas, Oxford, from 1871 to 1873, when he succeeded his father as rector of Spridlington. In 1876 he was received into the communion
of the Roman Catholic Church by John Henry Newman. He was then a member of
the Birmingham Oratory until 1883, in close association with
the cardinal. He returned to the Church of England in 1898,
became rector of Easthope, Shropshire, in 1899, curate
of St. Luke's, Richmond, in 1901, and rector of St. Mary-lo-Bow,
Cheapside, London, in 1903. In theology he is a liberal Evangelical. His
writings include: Our Position as Catholics in the Church of England
(London, 1872); The Anglican Ministry (1879); Cardinal
Manning (1892); Eccleaia discena (1904) ; Burford Papers (1905); The Church
and the Barbarians (1906); and William Stubbs (1906). He edited
S. R. Maitland's Essays on Subjects connected with the Reformation
in England (1899); J. H. Newman's Lives of
the English Saints (2 vols., 1900); and J. Tauler's
The Inner Way 1901).
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