3-038-987 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Very Rev. Dr. Alford, Dean of Canterbury, 1871. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co, of an '...accomplished scholar, a liberal and enlightened, as well as zealous, minister of the Christian Church, and an ornament to its English Establishment...His preaching here attracted some attention; he had delivered the Hulsean lectures at Cambridge ten years before. He held during some years the post of Examiner in Logic and Moral Philosophy for the University of London. He was appointed Dean of Canterbury in 1857. His edition of the Greek Testament, in four volumes, with a revised text and an English commentary, was the work of twenty years. He also translated Homer's "Odyssey" into English eleven-syllable blank verse, and produced several volumes of graceful original poetry and pleasant books of travel, besides many sermons and essays, and a little treatise on English grammar... The Dean's little book on New Testament synonyms is a collection of gems of infinite value to the Christian student...He was a frequent tourist. His conciliatory disposition, and the openness and candour of his mind, engaged the esteem both of Churchmen and Dissenters, in spite of all differences of opinion'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.