EG
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British priest
A.K.A.
Edwin Hamilton Gifford
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Male
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Birth:
18 December 1820
Death:
4 May 1905
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Education:
Shrewsbury School
St John's College
The details
Biography
Introduction
Edwin Hamilton Gifford, DD (18 December 1820 – 4 May 1905) was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the second half of the 19th century.
Edwin Gifford was educated at Shrewsbury and St John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1845.He was Second Master at his old school then Chief Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham and an honorary Canon of Worcester. Later he was Rector of Walgravethen Much Hadham. From 1884 to 1889 he was Archdeacon of London.
He died on 4 May 1905.
Emma Lavinia Gifford, the first wife of Thomas Hardy, was his niece.
Works
- Glory of God in Man, 1864
- Voices of the Prophets
- Romans in the Speaker's Commentary, 1881
- Authorship of Psalm cx, 1892
- St Cyril of Jerusalem in the Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1894