HOWARD, PHILIP THOMAS. - Dominican cardinal, b. in London on 12 Sept. 1629, d. in Rome on 17 June 1694. Son of Tommaso Howard Arundel, duke of Norfolk, and Elisabetta Stuart, at the age of sixteen he became a Dominican in Rome and devoted his life and possessions to the conversion of his homeland.
Ordained priest in 1654, he founded at Bornheim, in Flanders, a house for English vocations. During the reign of Carlo II, he was chaplain to Queen Margherita di Braganza, gaining a certain influence at court, from which he had to withdraw in 1674 when he was struck by banishment. Created cardinal by Clemente X in 1675, he cooperated with Giacomo II in increasing the number of apostolic vicars in England from one to four, and had the English College in Rome rebuilt.