GASQUET, FRANCIS ), English Roman Catholic cardinal and historian, was born in London Oct. 5, 1846. He was educated at Downside College, Bath, afterwards becoming superior of the Downside Benedictine monastery (1878-84). Created cardinal in 1914, in 1918 he was appointed prefect of the Vatican archives. Cardinal Gasquet was president of the international commission for the revision of the Vulgate. He carried out extensive researches in English history from mediaeval times to the Reformation. He died in Rome on April 5, 1929.