To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best Within the first five minutes of the Gifford Lec­tures that Lord (Rowan) Wil­liams delivered  in November 2013, he cited “the seminal and condensed work of the Dominican theologian Cornelius Ernst”: how many even of the handful of Catholics present recognised the name? William Henry Ernst died on 17 November 1977. He was born in Ceylon on 16 October 1924, and was sent to boarding school in England but, caught at home when war broke out in 1939, he completed his schooling in Colombo. In 1944 he returned to England to read philosophy as at Magdalene College, Cambridge. After a r