Mark Aloysius Tierney
British historian
Mark Aloysius Tierney (September 1795 in Brighton – 19 February 1862 at Arundel) was an English Catholic historian.
Life
After his early schooling under the direction of the Franciscans in Baddesley Green, Warwickshire, he was educated at St. Edmund's College, old Hall, which he entered in 1810 and where he was ordained priest, 19 Sept., 1818. He remained at the college as professor and procurator in 1818-19. He then served as assistant priest in Warwick Street, London, and afterwards at Lincoln's Inn Fields until his ill-health necessitated his removal to the country mission of Slindon in Sussex. In 1824 he was appointed chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk at Arundel, where he spent the rest of his life, devoting himself to historical and antiquarian studies.
His chief object was to bring out a new edition of Dodd's Church History of England, which was to incorporate documents collected by himself and John Kirk. The first volume appeared in 1839, but on the publication of the fifth volume in 1843 the work was discontinued, as the revival of the history of the seventeenth-century disputes between seculars and regulars was thought inopportune and gave offence. Meanwhile, his position as an antiquarian had received public recognition, for in 1833 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and in 1841 a Fellow of the Royal Society. He also acted as Secretary to the Sussex Archaeological Society.
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