 Finally, a meeting with Ambrose Phillipps de Lisle, a recent English convert to Catholicism, set George on the road to conversion.After several encounters with de Lisle and a number of priests, George resigned his living of Brington, and on 30 January 1830 the Honourable and Reverend George Spencer was received into the Catholic Church.To remove himself from the public eye and to lessen the blow to his parents, George went to Rome to study at the Venerable English College.