Henry Digby Beste
Henry Digby Beste (1768–1836) was an English writer and aristocrat, who converted to Catholicism. He is seen as a precursor to the Oxford Movement.[1]
Life
Beste was born in
In September 1791, Beste took deacon's orders in the Anglican church, and a little later retired to Lincoln, where he was active as a preacher. Doubts about the spiritual authority of the Established Church sprang up in his mind, which were strengthened by intercourse with Beaumont, then in charge of the small Catholic chapel at Lincoln. As a result, he was received into the Catholic Church by Joseph Hodgson, Vicar-General of the London district, on 26 May 1798.
In 1800, he married Sarah, daughter of Edward Sealy, with whom he became the father of the author John Richard Digby Beste (e. g. Modern Society in Rome. A novel, 1856).[2] He died in Brighton on 28 May 1836.
Works
Beste's first works were a treatise entitled The Christian Religion briefly defended against the Philosophers and Republicans of France (octavo, 1793) and in the same year a discourse on Priestly Absolution, which was republished in 1874. The latter anticipated some
References
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ XIX Century Fiction Part I: A–K. Jarndyce: Bloomsbury, 2019.
- ^ Beste, Henry Digby (1828). Italy as it is.
External links
- Works by Henry Digby Beste at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Henry Digby Beste at Internet Archive
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Henry Digby Beste". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.