WILLIAM HENRY ANDERDON. - English Jesuit and writer, b. in London on 22 Dec. 1816, d. at Roehampton on 28 July 1890. Of Protestant family, after his studies at Oxford he was elected parish priest of St. Margaret in Leicester (1846-50). Having abjured heresy in Paris at the hands of the celebrated Fr. De Ravignan and ordained a Catholic priest in 1853, he first became a professor at the University of Dublin and then private secretary to his uncle Cardinal Manning. In 1872 he entered the Society of Jesus and soon distinguished himself as a preacher and controversialist, as he had previously made himself known for his clear and attractive narrative style.
Principal works: Owen Evans, the Catholic Crouse, London 1862; Afternoons with the Saints, IV 1863; In the snow, Tales of Mount St. Bernard, IV 1866; Luther’s Word and the Word of God, IV 1883; What sort of man was Luther, IV 1883.