Allies

Allies, THOMAS WILLIAM, born at Bristol in 1813, passed from Eton to Wadham College, Oxford, where he obtained a first class in 1832. He became examining chaplain to Bishop Blomfield, who in 1842 presented him to the rectory of Launton, Oxfordshire. In 1850 he joined the Roman Catholic communion, and published the See of St Peter, accounting for his conversion. His marriage excluding him from the priestly office, he became secretary to the Catholic Schools Committee in 1853, and published a number of able controversial works, among them Per Crucem ad Lucem, the Result of a Life (1879), The Throne of the Fisherman (1887), Monastic Life (1896), &c.