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Parsons (HERBERT an American lawyer)

HERBERT, an American lawyer and politician, born in New York in 1869. He graduated from Yale in 1890 and afterward studied at several law schools. He was admitted to the in 1869. He graduated from Yale in 1890 and afterward studied at several in New York City he was elected a member of Congress, serving from 1905 until 1911. For many years he was chairman of the Republican County Committee and was also a member of the Republican National Committee, and was a member of the Seventh Regiment and for a time served as major and as judge-advocate was also a member of the Republican National Committee, and was a member New York National Guard. In 1917 he of the Seventh Regiment and for a time served as major and as judge-advocate Service. He was one of the most promi- New York National Guard. In 1917 he M. Cox for president in 1920. degrees PARSONS Roman Catholic and set out on foot to Rome, and offered himself to the So- Cardinal) Allen, superior of ciety of Jesus. He was ordained priest in 1578. When in the following year Dr. (afterward Car the Douay seminary, succeeded in persuading the Jesuits to join with the semilected. Parsons in 1580 landed at Dover, nary priests in the work of the English mission, Parsons and Campion were sedisguised as a merchant of jewels. He employed six printers on a secret press, and for 12 months baffled all the attempts of the government to catch him. But after the apprehension of his comschemed for the subjection of England panion, Campion, in July, 1581, Parsons to the Pope by force of arms. He conescaped to the Continent, where he spired in France with the Duke de Guise, the Provincial of the French Jesuits, the of England. Now began his intimacy and Papal Nuncio and others for an invasion series of political enterprises which culinfluence with the Spanish king, and the Rouen in 1582 he had finished his book, minated in the Armada of 1588. At the "Christian Directory," which has and, with the aid of the Duke of Guise, he founded at Eu a seminary for youth. After the failure of the Armada he orfound favor with Protestant divines; he founded at Eu a seminary for youth.

After the failure of the Armada he organized seminaries or clerical establish- emnts for his countrymen at Valladolid Parsons, who went from Madrid to Rome to again assume the rectorship of the in 1589, St. Lucar in 1591, Seville and Lisbon in 1592, and at St. Omer in 1593.

English college, now persuaded the Pope English sh college, now persuaded the Pope secular clergy, with the view of keep to appoint George Blackwell, a partisan of the Jesuits, an archpriest over the own hands. The appointment was reing the chief direction of affairs in his sisted by the leaders of the seculars. appointment chiefly fell, was accused of country. An appeal carried to Rome deceiving the Pope, of tyranny over the clergy, and of continued treason against by four delegates of the secular clergy His industry and power of work were led to a diminution of the Jesuits' power. extraordinary. His domineering spirit His industry and power of work were him bitter enemies, while his mode of to charges of double dealing, equivocaprosecuting his ends justly exposed him tion, and reckless slander of his opponents. Among the best known of his voluminous publications is "The Con-