The convert cardinal

John Henry Newman was born in 1801 to a banker father and mother of Huguenot descent

He was a founder of the Oxford Movement of the 1830s, which sought to revive some of the traditions of the early Christian church within Anglicanism

He converted to Catholicism in 1845 and spent 30 years in Birmingham looking after the sick and poor

A prolific writer and poet, he was ordained in 1847 and became a cardinal in 1879

When he died, tens of thousands lined the streets of Birmingham to see his coffin pass