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James Hildyard

1809–87

Clergyman and classical scholar. Shrewsbury School, 1820–9. BA, Cambridge, 1833; fellow, Christ’s College, 1833. Ordained priest, 1834. Hebrew lecturer and tutor, 1840. Relished acrimonious disagreement in university politics. Incumbent of Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, 1846–87. An advocate for the revision of the Book of Common Prayer.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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