Alfred Ainger
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Alfred Ainger (9 February 1837Template:Snd8 February 1904) was an English biographer and critic.
Biography
The son of an architect in London, he was educated at University College School, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge,<ref>Template:Acad</ref> from where he subsequently entered the Church, and, after holding various minor preferments (including teaching at Sheffield Collegiate School from 1864 to 1866),<ref name="EB1911">Template:Cite EB1911</ref> became Master of the Temple in July 1894.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria 28 January 1895,<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref> and a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her Majesty 2 March 1896.<ref>Template:London Gazette</ref>
He wrote memoirs of Thomas Hood and George Crabbe, but is best known for his biography of Charles Lamb and his edition of Lamb's works in 6 volumes (1883–88).<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> He was a contributor the Dictionary of National Biography, writing the entries on Lamb, Alfred Tennyson, Frederick Tennyson, Charles Tennyson Turner and George du Maurier, under the initials "A.A.".
In 1906 Edith Sichel published a 354-page biography of Ainger.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Works
- Crabbe (1903),<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> in the English Men of Letters series
- Charles Lamb (1908)
- The Letters of Charles Lamb (Volume I – Volume II)
- Lectures and essays (Volume 1)
- Lectures and essays (Volume 2)
References
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- 1837 births
- 1904 deaths
- People educated at University College School
- 19th-century English Anglican priests
- English biographers
- Alumni of King's College London
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography
- Masters of the Temple