Foley, Henry. – Jesuit, historian, born at Astley (Worcester) on 9 August 1811, died at Roehampton on 19 November 1891. Under the influence of the Oxford Movement he embraced Catholicism in 1846, and five years later, after the death of his wife, he requested admission into the Society of Jesus as a lay brother. For thirty years he served directly under the Provincial, collecting and publishing *The Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus* (8 vols., London 1877–83); a compilation rather than a continuous history, but extremely rich in documents on the religious struggles and Jesuit martyrs in England during the 16th and 17th centuries. He also wrote *Jesuits in Conflict* (London 1873), a series of biographies of missionary fathers during the persecutions of the same period.
