page_title: Heythrop College, University of London
section_title: Beginnings in exile
hierarchical_section_title: Heythrop College, University of London / History / Beginnings in exile
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Bishop John Carroll (1735-1815)
context_page_description: Heythrop College, University of London was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the University's specialist faculties of Philosophy and Theology with Social Sciences, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses and five specialist institutes and centres to promote research. It had a close affiliation with the Roman Catholic church, through the British Province of the Society of Jesus whose scholarly tradition went back to a 1614 exiled foundation in Belgium and whose extensive library collections it housed. While maintaining its denominational links and ethos the college welcomed all faiths and perspectives, women as well as men.
  Through Heythrop's close links with the Jesuits, it also served as the London centre for Fordham University, a Jesuit University in the United States. Other external groups, including A Call To Action, also used meeting facilities on the site.
context_section_description: Due to continuing anti-Catholic repercussions during the reign of James I, a network of English religious schools was established in Western Europe. Likewise the Society of Jesus preferred to establish its school for boys and its Faculties of Theology and Philosophy for training English Jesuit candidates abroad. Under John Gerard it founded them in Leuven in 1614, before moving them to a newly constructed college in Liège in 1616, what became the Collège des Jésuites anglais (Liège). William Baldwin (1563–1632), was a professor of moral theology at the college in Louvain. He, like Gerard, was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. 
  In 1624 the English Jesuit college obtained patronage from Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria and his wife, hence the colours of the Elector's coat of arms were incorporated into its own coat of arms. The Liège college was protected in the Austrian Netherlands and continued relatively undisturbed for 178 years, through the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773 under the personal authority of bishop François-Charles de Velbrück, until French troops surrounded the city in 1794.
  Notable teachers and alumni included:
  John Carroll (1735–1815) First Roman Catholic bishop (and archbishop of Baltimore), in the United States and founder of Georgetown University
  Charles Carroll (1737–1832) Maryland delegate and one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence
  Charles Plowden (1743–1821), Jesuit priest, writer and administrator; first Rector at Stonyhurst
  Francis Plowden, Jesuit priest, barrister and writer. Taught at the college during the Suppression of the Society of Jesus
  John Howard SJ was head of Liège College (1773–1783)
  William Strickland SJ was head of Liège College (1783–1790)
  Marmaduke Stone SJ (1748-1834), final director of the college (1790–1794), led the evacuation to England
caption: John Carroll
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