Mr. HUGH ROSS WILLIAMSON IS RECEIVED

MR. H ugh Ross Williamson and Mrs. Ross Williamson were received into the Church on Sunday by Fr. Basil Fitzgibbon S.J. in the Farm Street Jesuit Church, London.
Mr. Ross Williamson, who was horn in 1901, was ordained in the Church of England in 1943 after a Nonconformist upbringing and the " Free Catholicism " of Dr. Orchard.
He was called to London by Archbishop Temple for special work which did not mature because of the Archbishop's death.
Never in charge of a parish, he was a prominent member of the Anglo-Catholic Annunciation Group. and served at the Church of the Annunciation. Bryanston Street, London, helping the vicar, the Rev. W. G. Bennett.
Broadcaster
Writer, journalist, historian, dramatist, publicist, Mr. Ross Williamson, who has written some 20 hooks and nearly as many plays, has become a well-known name to the public in recent years owing to regular broadcasting.
For the past few weeks he has been the Chairman of the B.B.C. Television Brains Trust.
His play " The Gunpowder Plot," in which the Catholic version of what really happened was vigorously maintained, was televised some months ago.
A play on Cardinal Pole. " His Eminence of England." was presented in Canterbury Cathedral.
On his reception into the Church, Mr. Ross Williamson said: " In the Convocations of July, 1955, the Archbishops and bishops of the Church of England officially, with no dissentient, proclaimed that the orders of the recently formed and admittedly schismatic and heretical Church of South India ' were as valid as those of the Church of England. They thereby defined what they mean by ' Holy Orders.'
The end
" Many who realised at the time that this decision marked the end of the Church of England as we have known it hoped nevertheless that. since the July action was taken in the course of one day, without any forewarning of the Church as a whole, without anyone outside Convocation being allowed to know the terms of the intended resolution, without any theological reasons for it being stated and without any adequate debate, it would be rescinded at the October sessions of Convocation which ended on Friday.
" This has not happened: an attempt to have the matter reopened has been defeated -and a ruling given that the July decision has now become ' effective.' The implications are inescapable.
'I see clearly
" For myself, I now see clearly that the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church into which 1, in common with all Christians everywhere, was baptised and in which, in the Creeds, I have regularly affirmed my belief. is in truth the Church of Rome and I have, in consequence. made my immediate submission."
Mr. Ross Williamson's conversion follows within a few weeks the reception into the Church of Mr. Walton Hannah, secretary of the Annunciation Group. Mr. Hannah has gone to the Beda College in Rome to study for the priesthood.