Quotes:Rivington, Luke

Zirkoff, Boris

Rivington, Luke, b. in London, May, 1838; d. there, May 30, 1899. Son of a publisher; educ. at Magdalen Coll., Oxford. Ordained as Anglican clergyman, 1862; noted as preacher at All Saints, Margaret St., London; became superior of the Cowley Fathers’s house in Bombay. Becoming unsettled in his religious ideas, he visited Rome, 1888, and was ordained priest in the Roman Church, 1889. Returning to England, he devoted himself to preaching and writing controversial works. Some of these were: Authority; or a plain reason for joining the Church of Rome; Dust; Dependence; Anglican Fallacies; The Roman Primacy A. D. 430–51 (1889), and a number of pamphlets. He was very active in the Catholic Truth Society.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, p. 451