It is not surprising that Bishop John Carroll, the first Catholic Bishop of the newly formed United States (The Tablet, 29 August) and the Archbishop of Baltimore should have been professed a Jesuit.
He was educated by the Jesuits at St. Omers (1748-53), the precursor of Stonyhurst. He was ordained a Bishop at Lulworth, the home of the Weld Family, in 1790.
His cousin, Charles Carroll, also an Alumnus of St. Omers, was the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and by the time he died in 1832 was the last surviving signatory of that historic document.
Yours sincerely,
Richard Brumby, Gerrards Cross
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