Cardinal Thomas Weld (1773-1837)

Born in London, Thomas Weld belonged to an old English Catholic family, and he was educated at home in Catle Lulworth. King George III used to visit Lulworth, and always expressed the greatest regard for the family. He married at age 23 and had a daughter. After his wife died and his daughter married, Weld renounced his inheritance and became a priest. He was ordained in 1821 in France. After a few years as a pastor in England, he was named an auxiliary bishop in Canada. He never got there, however, because his daughter was sick and he acoomapnied her and her to Italy, where she recuperated. In 1830 he was named a cardinal with residence in Rome. On his elevation to the Sacred College he received assurances from persons of high influence and dignity in England that his nomination had excited no jealousy, but on the contrary had given general satisfaction. His apartments in the Odescalchi Palace were splendidly furnished, and periodically filled by the aristocracy of Rome, native and foreign, and by large numbers of his fellow-countrymen He died on 19 April 1837, and his remains were deposited in the church of Santa Maria Aquiro. The funeral oration, delivered by Nicholas (afterwards Cardinal) Wiseman, has been published.
(From Wikipedia)