Richard Simpson (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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British Roman Catholic writer and literary scholar
Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1820
Place of Birth: Beddington, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 05-Apr-1876
Profession: literary scholar
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Richard Simpson (writer)
- Richard Simpson (16 September 1820–5 April 1876) was a British Roman Catholic writer and literary scholar.
- He was born at Beddington, Surrey, into an Anglican family, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and at Oriel College, Oxford.
- He obtained a BA degree on 9 February 1843.
- He was ordained in the Church of England, and became the vicar of Mitcham in Surrey, in 1844, the same year that he married his cousin, Elizabeth Mary Cranmer.
- He resigned his position some time before being received into the Catholic Church on 1 August 1846.
- He then spent more than a year on the continent, becoming very proficient as a linguist. Simpson returned to England in 1847, and settled in Clapham, Surrey.
- In 1850, he began to write for The Rambler, a Catholic periodical founded by converts.
- In 1856, he became its assistant editor, and in 1858, was made editor.
- When the magazine was discontinued in 1862 Simpson, with Sir John Acton, began the Home and Foreign Review.
- This met with resistance from the Catholic hierarchy, and was discontinued in 1864. Afterwards Simpson devoted himself to the study of Shakespeare, to music, and to writing.
- He was one of the first to advance the theory that Shakespeare had been a Catholic.
- Also, he was elected a member of the committee of the New Shakspere Society in 1874.
- He is probably best remembered for his biography of the English Jesuit martyr, Saint Edmund Campion; this book was praised by Evelyn Waugh in his own Campion book from seven decades later.
- Simpson's Edmund Campion was revised, edited and enlarged by Fr.
- Peter Joseph in 2010. Simpson died of cancer in Rome on 5 April 1876.
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