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ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824 )

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 565 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824 ) ,
Protestant
  archbishop of
Armagh
  and primate of all Ireland, was born at Londonderry on the 13th of
April
  1824 and educated at
Tonbridge
  Grammar School and Brasenose College,
Oxford
 . After holding several livings in the north of Ireland he was made
bishop
  of Derry and Raphoe in 1867, and was elevated to the primacy in 1896. Hewas Hampton lecturer in 1876. An eloquent preacher and the author of numerous theological works, he is best known to literature as a master of dignified and animated verse. His poems were collected in 1887 under the title of St
Augustine
 's Holiday, and other Poems. His wife, Cecil Francis
Humphreys
  (18181895), wrote some tracts in connexion with the
Oxford
 
movement
 , but is famous as the author of " Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," " There is a green hill far away " and other well-known hymns (nearly four hundred in all). A collection of her verse was published in 1896.


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