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Alfred Ainger (9 February 1837 – 8 February 1904) was an English biographer and critic.




Biography


The son of an architect in London, he was educated at University College School, King's College London and Trinity College, Cambridge, from where he subsequently entered the Church, and, after holding various minor preferments (including teaching at Sheffield Collegiate School from 1864 to 1866), became Master of the Temple in July 1894. He was appointed an Honorary Chaplain to Queen Victoria 28 January 1895, and a Chaplain-in-Ordinary to her Majesty 2 March 1896.
He wrote memoirs of Thomas Hood and George Crabbe, but is best known for his biography of Charles Lamb and his edition of Lamb's works in 6 volumes (1883–88). He was a contributor the Dictionary of National Biography, writing the entries on Lamb, Alfred Tennyson, Frederick Tennyson, Charles Tennyson Turner and George du Maurier, under the initials "A.A.".
In 1906 Edith Sichel published a 354-page biography of Ainger.




Works


Crabbe (1903), in the English Men of Letters series
Charles Lamb (1908)
The Letters of Charles Lamb (Volume I – Volume II)
Lectures and essays (Volume 1)
Lectures and essays (Volume 2)




References



This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.




External links



Works by Alfred Ainger at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Alfred Ainger at the Internet Archive

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