HOWARD, PHILIP THOMAS - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. VI, p. 868

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

HOWARD, PHILIP THOMAS. — Dominican cardinal, b. in London on 12 Sept. 1629, d. in Rome on 17 June 1694. Son of Thomas Howard Arundel, Duke of Norfolk, and of Elizabeth Stuart, at the age of sixteen he entered the Dominican Order in Rome and devoted his life and wealth to the conversion of his native land.

Ordained priest in 1652, he founded a house for English vocations at Bornheim in Flanders. During the reign of Charles II, he served as chaplain to Queen Margaret of Braganza, gaining some influence at court, from which he was forced to withdraw in 1674 after being struck by banishment. Created cardinal by Clement X in 1675, he worked with James II to increase the number of apostolic vicars in England from one to four and had the English College in Rome rebuilt.

BIBL.: C. Palmer, The life of P. Th. H., cardinal of Norfolk, London 1867; W. Lescher, Life of card. H., ibid. 1905; id., s. V. in Cath. Enc., VII, p. 502; B. Jarret, Card. H.'s letters (Publications of Catholic Record Society, 25) London 1925; Pastor, XIV, V. indice; A. Walz, I cardinali domenicani, Rome 1940, p. 42 (with bibliography).