Background
Source: Wikipedia
Daniel Rock (31 August 1799, Liverpool – 28 November 1871 Kensington, London) was an English Roman Catholic priest, ecclesiologist and antiquarian. He was educated at St. Edmund's College, 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.
