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Born in London of Anglican parents, his father being a merchant of good means in the City, he was educated first at Street Paul"s School (London). Then at Queen"s College, Oxford.
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Thomas Harper
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Education
Saint Paul"s School; The Queen"s College.
Career
His first mission was in Barnstaple in Devon. Here he manifested High Church proclivities and took a vigorous part in ecclesiastical controversies in the local press Getting into collision with his bishop on some points of doctrine, he left Devon and purchased a small proprietary chapel in a poor district in Pimlico, London.
But his ritualistic views and practices here again brought him into conflict with his diocesan Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London.
He passed through his noviceship and philosophical studies in Belgium. Ordained priest in 1859, he was appointed professor of theology the following year at Saint Beuno"s College.
Two years later he was transferred to the chair of logic and general metaphysics at Saint Mary"s Hall, Stonyhurst. A man of highly-strung nervous disposition and intense mental application, his health made frequent changes necessary.
During the last half-dozen years of his life he suffered from prolonged attacks of mental prostration, the malady at times assuming an acute form.
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The Metaphysics of the School, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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The Metaphysics of the School: By Thomas Harper .. Vol. III
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The Metaphysics of the School, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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August 29, 1893 (aged 71) -
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Religion
Catholic