[Born at Seville, in Spain, 1802. Still living.]
Came to England in 1808. Educated at the English college in Rome, where
he took his degree of D.D. in 1824. Consecrated Bishop of Melipotamus in
1840, and made Vicar Apostolic of the London district in 1849. Created
Cardinal, 1850. Cardinal Wiseman is a man of vast learning and eminent
ability. His lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed
Religion constitute a noble and masterly vindication of the cause which
the lectures are intended to maintain, and are full of the happiest
illustration. The style of Cardinal Wiseman is forcible, logical, and
eloquent; and it is said that he writes with equal ease the language of
nearly all the European nations. He is the seventh English Cardinal
since the Reformation.
[By Christopher Moore. 1850.]
KINGS AND QUEENS.