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John Henry Newman

Anglican clergyman who converted to Catholicism in 1845 — the most celebrated religious conversion of the Victorian era — and who wrote the Apologia Pro Vita Sua and The Idea of a University, arguing that the university's purpose is liberal education rather than vocational training.

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