Alexander, William

Anglican Archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland; b. at Londonderry, Ireland, Apr. 13, 1824. He was educated at Tunbridge Scool and Exeter and Brasenose Colleges, Oxford (B.A., 1854). After his graduation he was successively curate of Derry Cathedral and rector of Termonamongan, Upeer Fahan, and Camus-Juxta_Mourne (all in the diocese of Derry), whele in 1863 he was appointed dean of Emly. Four years later he was consecrated bishop of Derry and Raphoe, and in 1896 was elevated to the archbishopric of Armagh and the primacy of all Ireland. He was select preacher to the University of Oxford in 1870-71 and Bampton Lecturer in 1876. He has written Leading Ideas of the Gospels (Oxford sermons, London, 1872); The Witness of the Psalms to Christ and Christianity (1877); commentaries on Colossians, Thessalonians, Philemon, and the Johannine Epistles, in The Speaker’s Commentary (1881); The Great Question and Other Sermons (1885); St. Augustine’s Holiday and Other Poems (1886); Discourses on the Epistles of St. John (1889); Verbum Crucis (1892); Primary Convictions (1893); and The Divinity of Our Lord (1886)