Charles Alford

Charles Richard Alford (13 August 1816 – 13 June 1898) was an Anglican bishop and author in the last third of the 19th century.[1]

Alford was born into an ecclesiastical family in Somerset, England[2] on 13 August 1816. His father was the rector of West Quantoxhead.[3] He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] He was ordained in 1839 and served curacies at Holy Trinity, Finningley and St Matthew's Rugby.[5] In 1846 he became Vicar of Christ Church, Doncaster,[6] a post he held for eight years. He was then principal of Highbury Training College for a decade then vicar of Holy Trinity, Islington. In 1867 he was ordained to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, resigning in 1874. On returning to England he held further incumbencies at Christ Church, Claughton, Merseyside[7] and St Mary's Kippington.[8] From 1880 until his retirement in 1881 he was a commissary to the Diocese of Huron.[9] He died on 13 June 1898.[10]