Acton, Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton
Acton, Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton ( 1834 – 1902 ),born at Naples, the son of a Roman Catholic English father and a German aristocrat mother: he was brought up in a well-connected cosmopolitan world and was educated at Paris, Oscott, Edinburgh, and Munich, where he studied under the distinguished German church historian Döllinger. In the Rambler (converted under his direction to the Home and Foreign Review) he advocated Döllinger's proposed reunion of Christendom, but stopped the Review on the threat of a papal veto. He opposed the definition by the Catholic Church of the dogma of papal infallibility, and published his views in his Letters from Rome on the Council ( 1870 ). In 1874 , in letters to The Times , he criticized Gladstone 's pamphlet on ‘The Vatican Decrees’. His literary activity was great, and took the form of contributions to the North...
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