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lAyineu won; niartj'rcd at Tvlmrti or Tower UiU' in- cluding Ven.Wiiliam Howard, Viscount Stafford, anlii'-i- iif ediiealioii for tho clergy of the London District. His successor opened the large church at -Moorlields, which long served as the Pro-tatheflral of London (I820-I86.5). In 1829 the Catholic Emancipation Act removed from Catho- lics nearly all their remaining restrictions and since then they have taken their places in Parliament, on the judicial bench, and at the bar. Among ministers of tlic Crown there ha\'e been Sir C'harles Russell (afterwards Ixird Russell of Killowen), Attorney General (1892-1894), Mr. Henrv Matthews, now Lord LlanHaff, Home Secretary (1885-18<)2), the Duke of Norfolk, Postmaster General (1885-1000), and the
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Coiimics (1892-189.-.), \x,n\ Privy Seal (1905-1908).
In the High t.'ourt of Jui^licc then- have l>een five
Catholic judges:— Sir William Shee (186:1-1808), Sir
James Mathew (ISSl-lMMl), Sir John Dav (1882--
1901), Lord Russell of Killowen, Ix)rd Chief Justice ot
of England(1895-1900).and Sir Joseph Walton (1901).
Two Catholics, father and son, have attained the posi-
tion of Lord Mavor of London. Sir Stuart Knill (1892-
1893) and Sir John Knill (19(t9-1910). Since the
EmancijMilion Act there has lieen an extraordinary
development of Catliolic life in every ilireclioii, gn>atly
hcl[>eil by two movements, the large Iri.'ih immigra-
tion in 1847 and the conversions resulting from the
Oxford Mo\fment, The increase in nimil«rs ia
shown by the episcopal reports to Proi)aganda previ-
ous to the restoration of the hierarchy.
In 1810 Pope Gregory XVI rediHtributed England into eight vicariates, on which occasion the London District lost Bedfordshire and Buckinghamsliire. Ten years later Pope Pius IX restored the hierarchy; the London District ceased to exist and its place was taken by the new Dioceses of Westminster and South-
