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{{Short description|English churchman, scholar, poet and writer (1810–1871)}}
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|resting_place= [[St Martin's Church, Canterbury]]
|nationality = English
|spouse = Frances Oke Alford (cousin)
|children = 2 sons and 2 daughters
|occupation = churchman, scholar, poet and writer
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==Life==
Alford was born at 25 Alfred Place, Bedford Square, London<ref name=odnb>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/341|title=Alford, Henry}}</ref>
<blockquote>of a [[Somerset|Somersetshire]] 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 lad, and before he was ten had written several [[Latin]] odes, a history of the [[Jew]]s and a series of [[homiletic]] outlines. After a peripatetic school course he went up to Cambridge in 1827 as a scholar of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity]] in 1827. In 1832 he was 34th wrangler and 8th classic, and in 1834 was made a fellow of Trinity.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}</blockquote>
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<blockquote>In September 1853 Alford moved to [[Church of the Annunciation, Marble Arch|Quebec Street Chapel]], [[Marylebone]], London, where he had a large and cultured congregation. In March 1857 [[Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston|Lord Palmerston]] advanced him to the [[Dean of Canterbury|deanery of Canterbury]], where, till his death [...], he lived the same strenuous and diversified life that had always characterized him.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}</blockquote>
==Personal life==
He had been the friend of many of his eminent contemporaries, and was much loved for his amiable character. Henry Alford was buried at [[St Martin's Church, Canterbury]]. A description of the funeral and a tribute to Dean Alford were published in ''The Times''.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The late Dean Alford|location=London|newspaper=The Times|date=18 January 1871|page=5}}</ref> "The inscription on his tomb, chosen by himself, is ''Diversorium Viatoris Hierosolymam Proficiscentis'' ('the lodging place of a traveller on his way to Jerusalem')."{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} <!-- <ref>{{cite book|last = Duffield|first = Samuel Willoughby|title = English hymns : their authors and history|year = 2005|publisher = Kessinger Publishing|location = [England]|isbn = 9780766154292|page = 120|author-link = Samuel Willoughby Duffield}}</ref> -->▼
Henry Alford married his cousin Frances (Fanny) Oke Alford on 10 March 1835 in [[Curry Rivel]], [[Somerset]]. They had four children, all born in Wymeswold, of whom both the sons died in childhood.<ref name=odnb>{{Cite ODNB|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/341|title=Alford, Henry}}</ref> The first was Clement Henry Oke, who died in 1844, aged 11 months; the second was his elder brother Ambrose Oke, who died in [[Babbacombe]], [[Torquay]] aged 10, on 31 August 1850.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Deaths|newspaper=Trewman's Exeter Flying Post|page=8|date=12 September 1850}}</ref>
Henry and Francis' two daughters were:
{{block indent|(1) Alice Oke, born on 23 October 1836 and who died on 13 June 1908. She married William Thomas Bullock in Canterbury Cathedral. William, who was 18 years her senior, became the chaplain at Kensington Palace; he died on 27 February 1879.<ref>Personal communication from Chris Sutton, May 2024</ref>}}
{{block indent|(2) Frances Mary Oke, who married the Reverend Henry Edmund Tilsley Cruso on 12 February 1867 in Canterbury.}}
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[[File:Alfords Greek testament.png|thumb|''New Testament in Greek'', now in 3 volume set]]
Frances Alford died in [[Middlesex]] on 18 November 1878.
==Published works==
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==References==
{{Reflist}}
==Further reading==
*{{Cite news|title=The Late Dean Alford|location=London|newspaper=The Times|date=3 April 1874|page=3}}
*{{Cite web|title=Biographical Sketches: Henry Alford|website=The Hare Society Website|url=https://augustus-hare.tripod.com/bsalford.html|access-date=26 May 2024}}
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