He was appointed on February 21, 2001 to succeed Basil Hume.

Anthony Howard, Basil Hume: the monk cardinal, Headline, London, 2005, pp 124-5.

BH - abbreviating St. Basil Hume.

Hume - Named after Basil Hume.

He specialised in church design and restoration, so in the 1960s and 1970s he was consultant architect for the Benedictines, taking instructions from Basil Hume.

In 1976 he persuaded the Vatican to appoint Basil Hume as Archbishop of Westminster.

Legend has it that Basil Hume tried to teach him to play rugby.

Brought up as a Roman Catholic, he was educated at Ampleforth College, where he became friends with Basil Hume.

You can imagine the bile coming from these comments pages if Basil Hume was the author of that piece !

During this time he served under Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.