James Moyes (1851–1927) was a Scottish writer,

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, and controversialist.

Biography

Moyes was born in

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in 1851. He was educated in

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, and

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at the Venerable English College, Rome.

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into the priesthood in 1875, he was later appointed

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, England. He was appointed canon

of Salford Chapter, 1891, and of the

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Chapter, 1895. In 1896, he served on the

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Commission in

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matters on which he was an authority. In 1903 he was chosen as sub-delegate Apostolic for the Cause of English Martyrs. He edited the '' Dublin Review'' until 1903, contributed a vast amount of controversial literature on

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subjects to '' The Tablet'', and wrote ''Aspects of Anglicanism'', 1906. Moyes died at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in London on 11 March 1927.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moyes, James 1851 births 1921 deaths Clergy from Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish Roman Catholic priests 20th-century British Roman Catholic theologians 19th-century British Roman Catholic theologians Contributors to the Catholic Encyclopedia