Life, journals and letters of Henry Alford

Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library 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 E