Author Bio Information
Alford, Henry's bio information
Sunday, October 7, 1810 - Thursday, January 12, 1871
Born: October 7, 1810, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England.
Died: January 12, 1871, Canterbury, Kent, England.
For his own epitaph, he wrote: “The inn of a pilgrim traveling to
Jerusalem.”
Buried: St. Martin’s, Canterbury, Kent, England.
Alford wrote the following in his Bible at age 16:
I do this day in the presence of God and my own soul renew
my covenant with God and solemnly determine henceforth to
become his and to do his work as far as in me lies.
Alford attended Ilminster Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1833. He was Curate at Winkfield, Wiltshire, and Ampton, and Vicar at Wymeswold, Leicestershire (where he served 18 years). In 1853, he went to Quebec Chapel, London; in 1857, he became dean of Canterbury Cathedral. He was also a scholar, producing volumes on Homer, English poetry, and the Greek New Testament. His works include:
Poems and Poetical Fragments (Cambridge, England: J. J. Deighton, 1833)
Psalms and Hymns, 1844
Poetical Works, 1845
The Year of Praise, 1867
Hymns
Brightly Did the Light Divine
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Forward! Be Our Watchword
Herald in the Wilderness
Highest and the Holiest Place, The
In Token That Thou Shalt Not Fear
Let the Church of God Rejoice
Not in Anything We Do
O Thou at Whose Divine Command
O Thou Who Hast Thy Servants Taught
O Why on Death So Bent?
Of All the Honors Man May Wear
Our Year of Grace Is Wearing to a Close
Savior, Thy Father’s Promise Send
Since We Kept the Savior’s Birth
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
Thou That Art the Father’s Word
Thou Who on That Wondrous Journey
Through Israel’s Coasts in Times of Old
Thy Blood, O Christ, Hath Made Our Peace
We Walk by Faith
When in the Lord Jehovah’s Name
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/a/l/f/alford_h.html
Died: January 12, 1871, Canterbury, Kent, England.
For his own epitaph, he wrote: “The inn of a pilgrim traveling to
Jerusalem.”
Buried: St. Martin’s, Canterbury, Kent, England.
Alford wrote the following in his Bible at age 16:
I do this day in the presence of God and my own soul renew
my covenant with God and solemnly determine henceforth to
become his and to do his work as far as in me lies.
Alford attended Ilminster Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1833. He was Curate at Winkfield, Wiltshire, and Ampton, and Vicar at Wymeswold, Leicestershire (where he served 18 years). In 1853, he went to Quebec Chapel, London; in 1857, he became dean of Canterbury Cathedral. He was also a scholar, producing volumes on Homer, English poetry, and the Greek New Testament. His works include:
Poems and Poetical Fragments (Cambridge, England: J. J. Deighton, 1833)
Psalms and Hymns, 1844
Poetical Works, 1845
The Year of Praise, 1867
Hymns
Brightly Did the Light Divine
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Forward! Be Our Watchword
Herald in the Wilderness
Highest and the Holiest Place, The
In Token That Thou Shalt Not Fear
Let the Church of God Rejoice
Not in Anything We Do
O Thou at Whose Divine Command
O Thou Who Hast Thy Servants Taught
O Why on Death So Bent?
Of All the Honors Man May Wear
Our Year of Grace Is Wearing to a Close
Savior, Thy Father’s Promise Send
Since We Kept the Savior’s Birth
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
Thou That Art the Father’s Word
Thou Who on That Wondrous Journey
Through Israel’s Coasts in Times of Old
Thy Blood, O Christ, Hath Made Our Peace
We Walk by Faith
When in the Lord Jehovah’s Name
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/a/l/f/alford_h.html
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