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AINGER, ALFRED (1837–1904)

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 440 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AINGER, See also:ALFRED (1837–1904) , See also:English divine and See also:man of letters, was See also:born in See also:London on the 9th of See also:February 1837, the on of an architect. He was educated at See also:King's See also:College, London, and at Trinity College, See also:Cambridge, and was ordained in 186o to a curacy at Alrewas, near See also:Rugeley. There he remained until 1864, when he became an assistant See also:master at the See also:Sheffield Collegiate School. His connexion with the See also:Temple See also:church, in London, began in 1866, when he was appointed reader; and in 1894 he succeeded Dr See also:Vaughan as master. In 1887 he was presented to a canonry in See also:Bristol See also:cathedral, and he was chaplainin-See also:ordinary to See also:Queen See also:Victoria and King See also:Edward VII. He died on the 8th of February 1904. See also:Canon Ainger's See also:gentle wit and See also:humour, his generosity and lovable disposition, endeared him to a wide circle. In literature his name is chiefly associated with his sympathetic appreciation of See also:Charles See also:Lamb and See also:Thomas See also:Hood. His See also:works include: Charles Lamb (1882) and See also:Crabbe (1903) in the " English Men of Letters " See also:series; See also:editions of Lamb's Essays of See also:Ella (1883) and of his Letters (1888; 2nd ed., 1904), of the Poems (1897) of Thomas Hood, with a See also:biographical introduction; The See also:Life and Works of Charles Lamb (12 vols.,1899–1900); articles on See also:Tennyson and Du Maurier in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography; The See also:Gospel and Human Life (1904), sermons; Lectures and Essays (2 vols., 1905), edited by the Rev. H. C. See also:Beeching.

See also Edith Sichel, The Life and Letters of Canon Ainger (1906).

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