Misplaced Pages

This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (February 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Alfred John Church (29 January 1829 – 27 April 1912) was an English classical scholar.

Church was born in London and was educated at King's College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857 to 1870. He subsequently served as headmaster of Henley-on-Thames Royal Grammar School from 1870 to 1873, and then of King Edward VI School, Retford, from 1873 to 1880. From 1880 until 1888 he was professor of Latin at University College, London.

While at University College in partnership with William Jackson Brodribb, he translated Tacitus and edited Pliny's Letters (Epistulae). Church also wrote a number of stories in English re-telling of classical tales and legends for young people (Stories from Virgil, Stories from Homer, etc.). He also wrote much Latin and English verse, and in 1908 published his Memories of Men and Books. Church died in Richmond, Surrey.

Publications

• The Bible Examiner: Containing Various Prophetic Expositions
• The life of Cnaeus Julius Agricola by Tacitus, Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb
• Select Letters of Pliny the Younger. (1871); translated and edited by A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb
• Stories from Virgil. (1879)
• Stories from the Greek Tragedians. (1880)
• The Story of the Persian War. (1881)
• Stories of the East from Herodotus. (1881)
• Roman life in the days of Cicero. (1883)
• Stories from Livy. (1883)
• The Count of the Saxon Shore. (1887) historical novel - with collaboration of Ruth Putnam.
• The Hammer. (1890)
• Stories from the Bible (1890)
• The Laureate's Country (1891) - with illustrations from drawings by Edward Hull.
• Callias. (1891)
• The burning of Rome: or, a story of the days of Nero. (1891)
• The Story of the Odyssey. (1892)
• The Story of the Iliad. (1895)
• Lords of the World. (1897)
• Stories from Ancient History (1907) - with illustrations by H. R. Millar.
• The Faery Queen and Her Knights (1909)

Notes

1. Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1910
2. "CHURCH, Alfred John". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 333.
3. "Select Letters of Pliny the Younger. With English Notes. By A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb". The Athenaeum (2279): 9–10. 1 July 1871.
4. "The Laureate`s country: a description of places connected with the life of Alfred Lord Tennyson / by Alfred J. Church". Royal Collection Trust. Inventory no. 1081706.

References

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Church, Alfred John" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.

External links

• Works by Alfred John Church at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Alfred John Church at the Internet Archive
• Works by Alfred John Church at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

This biography article of a United Kingdom academic is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1829 births
• 1912 deaths
• Alumni of King's College London
• Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
• English classical scholars
• Schoolteachers from Oxfordshire
• Academics of University College London
• Classical scholars of the University of London
• Schoolteachers from Nottinghamshire
• Heads of schools in England
• British academic biography stubs