Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 A Church Divided and the Educational Solution
- 2 The Status of Catholic Education at Mid-Century and the Catholic Educational Philosophy
- 3 Educational Obstacles to Overcome
- 4 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1847–70: Preparing for Battle
- 5 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1870: The Battle Begins
- 6 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1871–90: Engaging With the Enemy
- 7 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1891–1902: A Strategy for Success
- 8 Catholic Education and Identity after the Balfour Act: The Battle Ends but the Fight Continues
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
7 - English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1891–1902: A Strategy for Success
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- 1 A Church Divided and the Educational Solution
- 2 The Status of Catholic Education at Mid-Century and the Catholic Educational Philosophy
- 3 Educational Obstacles to Overcome
- 4 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1847–70: Preparing for Battle
- 5 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1870: The Battle Begins
- 6 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1871–90: Engaging With the Enemy
- 7 English Catholics and the Politics of Education, 1891–1902: A Strategy for Success
- 8 Catholic Education and Identity after the Balfour Act: The Battle Ends but the Fight Continues
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
Although much of the political analysis of Catholics in the late nineteenth century has focused on Cardinal Manning, this chapter contends that Bishop, and later Archbishop and Cardinal, Vaughan was, at the very least, equal to the efforts of his predecessor in the political arena, especially after he moved to Westminster in 1892. Prolific in authoring pamphlets, petitions, articles and letters to the editors of several newspapers, Vaughan also travelled the country industriously to speak on behalf of denominational education. Along with the new archbishop's increased lobbying efforts was the heightened political effort of Catholics in Parliament. Whereas not one Catholic spoke in the Commons during the initial debate on the 1870 Education Act, the education debates of the 1890s featured much greater Catholic input. Part of the explanation for this change can be found in the fall of Irish leader Charles Parnell and the subsequent split in the Home Rule party that weakened the Irish cause. After Gladstone's second Irish Home Rule bill fell to defeat in the Lords in 1893, the issue faded from the political stage for nearly a decade, allowing Catholic MPs to refocus their efforts on an acceptable education settlement.
A few months before the 1892 general election returned a minority Liberal government to power under Prime Minister's Gladstone's fourth ministry, English Catholicism experienced the death of the long-time Gladstone confidant, Oxford convert and socially-radical-leaning Manning and his subsequent replacement by the old Catholic, conservative-leaning Vaughan.
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- English Catholics and the Education of the Poor, 1847–1902 , pp. 119 - 148Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014