William Alder Strange

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

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

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.

See also

• List of Old Abingdonians

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.