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.

Articulated the philosophy of liberal education — The Idea of a University argues that a university exists to cultivate the intellect for its own sake, not for utility — and the Grammar of Assent's analysis of how real assent (as distinct from notional assent) operates in religious belief.