Robert Parsons

Robert Parsons was born in Nether Stowey, and became a Jesuit priest of equal contemporary fame with Edmund Campion[?]. He was associated with Cardinal William Allen in their hopes of a swift conquest of England by the Spanish Armada. With the failure of that enterprise, he spent nine years in Spain, and hoped to succeed Allen as Cardinal on the latter's death. Unsuccessful, he was rewarded with the rectorship of the English College at Rome.