# Daniel Rock > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Rock > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Rock.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rock > Source revision: 1270260133 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English Roman Catholic priest, ecclesiologist and antiquarian (1799–1871)}} {{for|the English cricketer|Daniel Rock (cricketer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{more citations needed|date=July 2014}} '''Daniel Rock''' (31 August 1799, [Liverpool](/source/Liverpool) – 28 November 1871 [Kensington](/source/Kensington), London) was an [English](/source/England) [Roman Catholic](/source/Roman_Catholic) priest, ecclesiologist and antiquarian. He was educated at [St. Edmund's College](/source/St_Edmund's_College%2C_Cambridge), Old Hall, where he studied from April, 1813, to December, 1818. There he came under the influence of Louis Havard from whom he acquired his first interest in liturgy, and was the intimate friend of [Mark Aloysius Tierney](/source/Mark_Aloysius_Tierney). He was then chosen as one of the first students sent to reopen the [English College](/source/English_College%2C_Rome) at Rome, where he remained until he took the degree of D.D. in 1825. He had been ordained priest, 13 March 1824. On his return to London he became assistant priest at St. Mary's, [Moorfields](/source/Moorfields), until 1827, when he was appointed domestic chaplain to [John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury](/source/John_Talbot%2C_16th_Earl_of_Shrewsbury), with whom he had contracted a friendship based on similarity of tastes while at Rome. He accordingly resided at [Alton Towers](/source/Alton_Towers), [Staffordshire](/source/Staffordshire), till 1840, with the exception of two years during which Shrewsbury's generosity enabled him to stay at Rome collecting materials for his great work, ''Hierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass'', which was published in 1833. He had previously published two short works: ''Transubstantiation vindicated from the strictures of the Rev. Maurice Jones'' (1830), and ''The Liturgy of the Mass and Common Vespers for Sundays'' (1832). In 1840 he became chaplain to Sir [Robert Throckmorton](/source/Sir_Robert_Throckmorton%2C_8th_Baronet) of [Buckland](/source/Buckland%2C_Oxfordshire) (then in [Berkshire](/source/Berkshire), nowadays in [Oxfordshire](/source/Oxfordshire)), and while there wrote his greatest book, ''The Church of Our Fathers'',[https://books.google.com/books?id=lUNV0ORUFOEC&dq=%22church+of+our+fathers%22+%22canon+rock%22 "The Church of Our Fathers: As Seen in St. Osmund's Rite for the Cathedral of Salisbury"], by Daniel Rock, D.D., canon of the English Chapter, a new edition in 4 volumes, 1903, [John Hodges](/source/John_Hodges_(publisher)), London in which he studies the [Sarum Rite](/source/Sarum_Rite) and other medieval liturgical observances. This work, which has profoundly influenced liturgical study in England and which caused his recognition as the leading authority on the subject, was published in 1849 (vols. I and II) and 1853-4 (vol. III). After 1840, Rock was a prominent member of the ''Adelphi'', an association of London priests who were working together for the restoration of the hierarchy. When this object was achieved, he was elected one of the first canons of [Southwark](/source/Southwark_Cathedral) (1852). Shortly after, he ceased parochial work, and having resided successfully at [Newick](/source/Newick), Surrey (1854–64), he went to live near the [South Kensington](/source/South_Kensington) Museum in which he took the keenest interest and to which he proved of much service. His ''Introduction to the Catalogue of Textile Fabrics'' in that Museum has been separately reprinted (1876) and is of great authority. He also contributed frequent articles to the Archæological Journal, the [Dublin Review](/source/Dublin_Review_(Catholic_periodical)), and other periodicals. For many years before his death he held the position of President of the [Old Brotherhood of the English Secular Clergy](/source/Old_Brotherhood_of_the_English_Secular_Clergy). ==References== {{Catholic|wstitle=Daniel Rock}} {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rock, Daniel}} Category:1799 births Category:1871 deaths Category:19th-century English Roman Catholic priests Category:English College, Rome alumni Category:Clergy from Liverpool Category:People from Kensington Category:People from Buckland, Oxfordshire Category:People from Newick --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniel Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rock) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rock?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.