Thomas Doyle (priest)

[2] Doyle was sent to the site of the future St. George's Cathedral, then the Royal Belgian Chapel, on the London Road in Southwark, in 1820, and nine years later he became the senior priest there.

St George's Fields was a site associated with the Gordon Riots, and Doyle was instrumental in the construction of the cathedral there, designed by Augustus Pugin.

[2] Doyle began a discussion with Pugin on a large parish church, to accommodate an expanding Catholic population in South London, around 1839.

[2] Doyle was a good friend of John Henry Newman, and wrote to him in 1841, expressing the regrets of Southwark Catholic clergy for the attack on the Tractarians made by Joseph Rathborne.

[8] Popular interest in the issue linked anti-Catholic feeling with Augusta Talbot's status as an heiress to £80,000, around the allegation that the Catholic Church would profit if she died a nun.