Author: Dallas, Alexander Robert Charles
Biography:
DALLAS, Alexander Robert Charles (1791-1869: WBIS)
One of the seven children of Robert Charles Dallas (q.v.) and Sarah (Harding) Dallas, he was born in Colchester, educated at a good school in Kennington, and in 1805 was appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury. He served as an officer in the British army during the Peninsular War: Felix Alvarez, a novel based on his experience in Spain, was published in 1818. In the same year, he married a widow, Mary Anne (Ferguson) Edge; they went on to have six children. (After her death in 1847, he married Ann Biscoe Tyndale.) In 1821 he was ordained and after that, with the exception of the notorious edition of his father's memoir of Byron, he devoted himself to books and pamphlets related to his work for the Church. Allibone's Critical Dictionary, published during his lifetime, describes him as "one of the most exemplary and distinguished of the clergy of the Church of England." Rector of Wonston, near Winchester, from 1828 until his death, he was a zealous Evangelical and a pillar of the Society for Irish Church Missions. (Allibone; ODNB 3 July 2018) HJ
Other Names:
- Alexander R. C. Dallas