Bourne, Francis (1861–1935)

English cardinal. In 1889 he founded and became the first head of a theological seminary in the diocese of Southwark, London, of which he was made bishop in 1897. In 1895 he had been appointed domestic chaplain to Pope Leo XIII. When Cardinal Herbert Vaughan died in 1903 Bourne succeeded him as Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster. He was made a cardinal in 1911.

Bourne was born in Clapham, London, and studied at St Sulpice, Paris, and the University of Louvain. He was ordained in 1884 and served as curate at Blackheath, Mortlake, and West Grinstead.