Who is Henry Alford

Henry Alford (7 October 1810 – 12 January 1871) was an English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer.

Life

Alford was born in London, of a Somerset family, which had given five consecutive generations of clergymen to the Anglican church. Alford's early years were passed with his widowed father, who was curate of Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire. He was a precocious boy, and before he was ten had written several Latin odes, a history of the Jews and a series of homiletic outlines. After a peripatetic school course he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1827 as a scholar. In 1832 he was 34th wrangler and 8th classic, and in 1834 was made fellow of Trinity.

Service

He had already taken orders, and in 18...
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Henry Alford Poems

• The Bride
  ‘Rise,' said the Master, ‘come unto the feast.'
  She heard the call and rose with willing feet;
  But thinking it not otherwise than meet
  For such a bidding to put on her best,...

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