Educator, born London, England, 1859; died Rome, Italy, 1928. He was educated at Ushaw, was ordained in 1886, taught for several years at Saint Cuthbert's Grammar School, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and was headmaster from 1890 till 1917. From 1917 until his death, he was rector of the Beda Collegc at Rome, corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History, member of the Royal Societa Rom. di Storia Patria and of the Accademia d'Arcadia. He wrote the "Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages" from Saint Gregory I (590-604) to Innocent IV (1243-1254) in fourteen volumes.