William Alder Strange

William Alder Strange (1813–1874)[1] was a headmaster and author.[2]

William Alder Strange
Portrait of William Alder Strange
Born(1813-06-23)23 June 1813
Abingdon-on-Thames
Died17 April 1874(1874-04-17) (aged 60)
Bishop Middleham

Background and education

The son of William Strange of Jersey and Abingdon, a wine merchant, William Alder Strange was educated at Christ's Hospital, London, where he was Senior Grecian, John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon-on-Thames (now Abingdon School),[3] and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he held a college scholarship. He was awarded the first Boden scholarship in Sanskrit at Oxford in 1833.[4]

Career

Strange was appointed as a master at the Liverpool Royal Institution in 1833, then served as headmaster of Abingdon School from 1840 to 1868.[5][3][4]

Augustus Hare described a visit in 1857: "...we had lunch with the Head-master of the Grammar School, who, as soon as it was over, apologised for leaving us because he had got 'to wallop so many boys'."[6]

After retiring from Abingdon, he was vicar of Bishop Middleham in County Durham from 1868 to 1874.[3][4]

Family

Dr Strange was twice married:

  1. In 1836, to Mary Elizabeth Davis, by whom he had four daughters and three sons.
  2. In 1860, to Martha Richmond.

His eldest son Cresswell Strange was Canon Residentiary of Worcester.[7]

Publications

He published Cards on Logic, a series of his Sermons and was also a contributor to The Christian Annotator.

gollark: It means that i^i is a real number (or , strictly speaking, all the values of it are real).
gollark: This is presumably not the same as actually being drunk.
gollark: I'm immune to peer pressure up to about 712GPa.
gollark: This is NOT true. I have not in any way been sponsored by pizza companies. There have been no advertising agreements whatsoever with any companies producing pizza or otherwise to have me subliminally advertise pizza, as my profile picture is not a pizza. Since it is not a pizza, this is obviously not pizza advertisement whatsoever. No monetary exchanges or otherwise have occurred with companies engaged in pizza production for any reason relating to my profile picture. You are clearly engaged in libel and attempting to discredit my non-pizza-advertising status. It is IN NO WAY subliminal pizza advertising because I DO NOT work for pizza companies in any form. It's not pizza. There were no deals, under-the-table or otherwise, with pizza companies. No pizza companies pay for any kind of subliminal advertising involving me. People make that mistake, but I am not working for pizza companies doing subliminal advertising; that is not in any way what I am doing. I am NOT being sponsored by ANY pizza companies to display subliminal pizza advertising OF ANY KIND.
gollark: This makes sense, as alcohol is typically airborne, yes.

See also

References
  1. [billiongraves.com/grave/William-Alder-Strange/12315914 "Rev Dr William Alder Strange D.D. (1813–1874) Grave Site"]. BillionGraves.
  2. "School Notes" (PDF). the Abingdonian.
  3. Preston, Arthur Edwin (1929). St.Nicholas Abingdon and Other Papers, pre isbn. Oxford University Press.
  4. Hinde/St John Parker, Thomas/Michael (1977). The Martlet and the Griffen. James and James Publishers Ltd. ISBN 0-907-383-777.
  5. “Rev Dr William Alder Strange D.D. (1813-1874) Grave Site.” BillionGraves, billiongraves.com/grave/William-Alder-Strange/12315914.
  6. Augustus Hare, The Story of My Life, Volume I (Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1896), at pages 432-433
  7. "School Notes - Obituary" (PDF). the Abingdonian.
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