Alfred Lilley Explained

Alfred Leslie Lilley (14 August 1860 – 31 January 1948) was an Anglican priest^[1] and author.^[2]

Lilley was born in Clare, County Armagh,^[3] and educated at the Royal School, Armagh, and Trinity College Dublin. After a curacy in Glendermott he served at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street and St Mary on Paddington Green.^[4] He was a Canon Residentiary of Hereford Cathedral from 1911 to 1936; its Chancellor from 1922 to 1936; and Archdeacon of Ludlow from 1913 to 1928.^[5]

Character

E. H. Visiak describes Lilley in his 1968 memoir Life's Morning Hour as having "the aspect of a monk with a genial and sagacious mind", with "a capacity for suffering bores gladly".^[6] (Lilley provided the introduction for Visiak's 1911 poetry collection Flints and Flashes.)

Notes and References

1. http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/efa7f38d-c80e-44e1-8382-716b32160edc The National Archives
2. Amongst others he wrote Sir Joshua Fitch: his Life and Work, 1906; Adventus Regni, 1907; Modernism, 1908; The Soul of St Paul, 1909; The Religion of Life, 1910; Nature and Super-nature, 1911; Prayer in Christian Theology, 1924; Worship; Its Necessity, Nature, and Expression, 1926; Sacraments, their Meaning for Christian Worship, 1928; and Religion and Revelation, 1932 > British Library web site accessed 09:13 GMT Thursday 4 May 2017
3. Web site: Papers of Canon Alfred Leslie Lilley . Jisc Archives Hub . 9 August 2020.
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929-30 p792/2 London: Oxford University Press, 1929
5. 'LILLEY, Canon Alfred Leslie', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 4 May 2017
6. Book: Visiak . E. H. . Life's Morning Hour . 1968 . John Baker . London . 196.