Life, journals and letters of Henry Alford

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. vii, 528 pages ; 20 cm "Henry Alford (7 October 1810 – 12 January 1871) was an English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer." -- Wikipedia Includes bibliographical references (page 528) and index CHAPTER 1. 1810--1828. Parentage--Birth--Childhood -- At School and with a Private Tutor. CHAPTER 2. 1828--1832. Life at Cambridge as an Undergraduate -- Goes to read at Portsmouth -- Meeting with W. Wordsworth -- Hell's Scholar. CHAPTER 3. 1832--1840. First publishes Poems -- Pupils -- Curacy at Ampton -- Fellow of Trinity - Marriage -- Becomes Vicar of Wymeswold -- Tour to Belgium, Switzerland, and North Italy -- Edits Dearden's Miscellany. CHAPTER 4. 1840-1847. Visitation Sermon --Correspondence with Miss E. Mott -- Appointed Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge, and Examiner in Logic in the University of London -- Tours on the Continent -- Death of Youngest Son -- New Vicarage built --Restoration of Wymeswold Church begun -- National School room built -- Compiles a larger Hymn Book for Wymeswold, and publishes a Volume of Sermons --Visits Bonn. CHAPTER 5. 1847--1851. Gives up Pupils--Publishes another Volume of Sermons --Publishes the First Volume of Greek Testament -- Candidate for the Regius Professorship of Divinity, Cambridge -- Death of his Eldest Son -- CHAPTER 6. 1851-1853. Letters concerning the Greek Testament -- Three Months' Residence in London -- Death of his Father -- Removal to London as Minister of Quebec Chapel. CHAPTER 7. 1853--1857. London Work -- Crimean War -- Tour to the Pyrenees -- Controversy on the Sabbath Question -- Tour in Scotland -- Revision of Part of the Authorized Version of the New Testament -- Appointed to the Deanery of Canterbury . CHAPTER 8. 1857-1860. Work at Canterbury --Tour in Germany --The Evangelical Alliance at Berlin --Tour in the West of Scotland --Visits the West of England --