18 Facts About John Lingard

John Lingard was an English Catholic priest and historian, the author of The History of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an eight-volume work published in 1819.

John Lingard's mother was from an old Catholic family who had been persecuted for their beliefs; his father was, by trade, a carpenter, who had converted to Catholicism upon his marriage.

When John Lingard learned that a number of his students from Douai had made it to Arthur Storey's school in Tudhoe, he asked leave of the Baron to join them, which was granted.

Nominally John Lingard held the chair of philosophy; practically, besides the duties of vice-president to Eyre, he undertook in addition those of prefect of studies, procurator, and of professor of Church history.

John Lingard remained at Crook Hall for fourteen years until, in 1808, the seminary moved to St Cuthbert's College.

John Lingard donated a stained glass window to St Cuthbert's Chapel at Ushaw.

John Lingard built St Mary's Church with the proceeds from volume IV of the History of England.

John Lingard would refer to it in jest as "Henry VIII's Chapel".

John Lingard died at Hornby on 17 July 1851 at the age of eighty-one.

John Lingard was buried, at his request, in the cloister of the college cemetery at Ushaw.

The Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church arose from a series of informal talks John Lingard gave at Ushaw.

John Lingard emphasized that he drew his information wherever possible from original works.

John Lingard himself argued that one of his chief duties as an historian was:.

John Lingard adopted a non-controversial and sober approach to history with the emphasis on incontrovertible fact and using primary rather than secondary sources.

John Lingard possesses little sense of "preaching to the converted", and aims his work more at influencing Protestants than placating his Ultramontane opposition.

John Lingard's religion had to a large extent isolated him from the mainstream nationalism which surrounded Protestant historians, as well as from the growing "providentialist" concept of history.

John Lingard was devoted to absolute accuracy and detail and the History was a groundbreaking work in its use of primary sources.

John Lingard authored the very popular Catholic hymn to the Virgin Mary titled Hail Queen of Heaven, the Ocean Star, loosely based on the medieval Latin plainchant Ave maris stella.