ANDERDON, WILLIAM HENRY. - English Jesuit and writer, b. in London on 22 Dec. 1816, d. at Roehampton on 28 July 1890. Born into a Protestant family, after his studies at Oxford he was appointed rector of St. Margaret’s in Leicester (1846–50). Having abjured heresy in Paris at the hands of the celebrated Fr. De Ravignan and having been ordained a Catholic priest in 1853, he was first a professor at the University of Dublin and then private secretary to his uncle, Card. Manning. In 1872 he entered the Jesuit order and soon distinguished himself as a preacher and controversialist, just as he had earlier attracted notice for his clear and engaging narrative style.
Principal works: Owen Evans, the Catholic Crouse, London 1862; Afternoons with the Saints, ibid. 1863; In the snow, Tales of Mount St. Bernard, ibid. 1866; Luthers Word and the Word of God, ibid. 1883; Wath sort of man was Luther, ibid. 1883.