William Beal (writer)

William Beal (9 September 1815, Sheffield – 20 April 1870, Aigle, Switzerland) was an English religious writer.

Life

William Beal was born 9 September 1815 in Sheffield, the son of William Beal, a Wesleyan minister. He was educated at King's College London, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1841.^[1] In the same year he was ordained deacon. Headmaster of Tavistock Grammar School from 1837 to 1847, he was made vicar of Brooke near Norwich in 1847. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the university of Aberdeen. He is best known as the promoter of harvest homes for country districts in 1854. At Norwich he was vice-president of the People's College, and corresponding member of the Working Men's Congregational Union. He died in 1870. He was the editor of the West of England Magazine.

Works

An Analysis of Palmer's Origines Liturgicæ, 1850
The Nineveh Monuments and the Old Testament
A Letter to the Earl of Albemarle on Harvest Homes.
A First Book of Chronology, 1846
(ed., with preface) 'Certain godly Prayers originally appended to the Book of Common Prayer

References

↑ "Beal, William (BL834W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

"Beal, William". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

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