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WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1824— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 565 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:ALEXANDER (1824— )  , See also:Protestant See also:archbishop of See also:Armagh and See also:primate of all See also:Ireland, was See also:born at See also:Londonderry on the 13th of See also:April 1824 and educated at See also:Tonbridge See also:Grammar School and Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford . After holding several livings in the See also:north of Ireland he was made See also:bishop of Derry and Raphoe in 1867, and was elevated to the primacy in 1896 . Hewas See also:Hampton lecturer in 1876 . An eloquent preacher and the author of numerous theological See also:works, he is best known to literature as a See also:master of dignified and animated See also:verse . His poems were collected in 1887 under the See also:title of St See also:Augustine's See also:Holiday, and other Poems . His wife, See also:Cecil See also:Francis See also:Humphreys (1818—1895), wrote some tracts in connexion with the Oxford See also:movement, but is famous as the author of " Jesus calls us o'er the tumult," " There is a See also:green See also:hill far away " and other well-known See also:hymns (nearly four See also:hundred in all) . A collection of her verse was published in 1896 .

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