Educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author; Chaplain to King George V and Dean of Durham.
Second son of the Rev. Henry Giles Alington, an inspector of schools, and his wife Jane Margaret Booth (d. 1910), daughter of Rev. Thomas Willingham Booth.
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, England, Cyril A. Alington, was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1901. He had a teaching career that included being headmaster at Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He was dean of Durham from 1933-1951 as well as chaplain to the king of England. His writings include literary works and Christianity in England, Good News (1945). Many of his hymns appeared in various twentieth-century editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Alington, who had become DD at Oxford in 1917, received other honours: he was chaplain to the king from 1921 to 1933, and he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1926, and an honorary DCL at Durham in 1937. He died at his home, Treago, St Weonards, Herefordshire, on 16 May 1955 and was buried at Durham Cathedral.
He married, on 5 April 1904, Hester Margaret (1874 - 1958), youngest daughter of George William Lyttelton, the fourth Lord Lyttelton. The couple had two sons and four daughters:
Kathleen Lucy Alington (1908–1938)
Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909–1990), married Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home), British prime minister
Lavinia Sybil Alington (1911–1994), married Sir Roger Mynors, academic and classical scholar
Giles Alington (1914–1956), Dean and Senior Tutor of University College, Oxford
Joan Argentine Alington (1916–2000), married Rev. John Vaughan Wilkes, Master in College and later housemaster at Eton, Warden of Radley College and later vicar of Marlow
Patrick Cyril Waynflete Alington (1920–1943), killed at Salerno in World War II
Second son of the Rev. Henry Giles Alington, an inspector of schools, and his wife Jane Margaret Booth (d. 1910), daughter of Rev. Thomas Willingham Booth.
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, England, Cyril A. Alington, was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1901. He had a teaching career that included being headmaster at Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He was dean of Durham from 1933-1951 as well as chaplain to the king of England. His writings include literary works and Christianity in England, Good News (1945). Many of his hymns appeared in various twentieth-century editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Alington, who had become DD at Oxford in 1917, received other honours: he was chaplain to the king from 1921 to 1933, and he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1926, and an honorary DCL at Durham in 1937. He died at his home, Treago, St Weonards, Herefordshire, on 16 May 1955 and was buried at Durham Cathedral.
He married, on 5 April 1904, Hester Margaret (1874 - 1958), youngest daughter of George William Lyttelton, the fourth Lord Lyttelton. The couple had two sons and four daughters:
Kathleen Lucy Alington (1908–1938)
Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909–1990), married Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home), British prime minister
Lavinia Sybil Alington (1911–1994), married Sir Roger Mynors, academic and classical scholar
Giles Alington (1914–1956), Dean and Senior Tutor of University College, Oxford
Joan Argentine Alington (1916–2000), married Rev. John Vaughan Wilkes, Master in College and later housemaster at Eton, Warden of Radley College and later vicar of Marlow
Patrick Cyril Waynflete Alington (1920–1943), killed at Salerno in World War II
Educationalist, scholar, cleric, and prolific author; Chaplain to King George V and Dean of Durham.
Second son of the Rev. Henry Giles Alington, an inspector of schools, and his wife Jane Margaret Booth (d. 1910), daughter of Rev. Thomas Willingham Booth.
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, England, Cyril A. Alington, was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1901. He had a teaching career that included being headmaster at Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He was dean of Durham from 1933-1951 as well as chaplain to the king of England. His writings include literary works and Christianity in England, Good News (1945). Many of his hymns appeared in various twentieth-century editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Alington, who had become DD at Oxford in 1917, received other honours: he was chaplain to the king from 1921 to 1933, and he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1926, and an honorary DCL at Durham in 1937. He died at his home, Treago, St Weonards, Herefordshire, on 16 May 1955 and was buried at Durham Cathedral.
He married, on 5 April 1904, Hester Margaret (1874 - 1958), youngest daughter of George William Lyttelton, the fourth Lord Lyttelton. The couple had two sons and four daughters:
Kathleen Lucy Alington (1908–1938)
Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909–1990), married Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home), British prime minister
Lavinia Sybil Alington (1911–1994), married Sir Roger Mynors, academic and classical scholar
Giles Alington (1914–1956), Dean and Senior Tutor of University College, Oxford
Joan Argentine Alington (1916–2000), married Rev. John Vaughan Wilkes, Master in College and later housemaster at Eton, Warden of Radley College and later vicar of Marlow
Patrick Cyril Waynflete Alington (1920–1943), killed at Salerno in World War II
Second son of the Rev. Henry Giles Alington, an inspector of schools, and his wife Jane Margaret Booth (d. 1910), daughter of Rev. Thomas Willingham Booth.
Educated at Trinity College, Oxford, England, Cyril A. Alington, was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1901. He had a teaching career that included being headmaster at Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He was dean of Durham from 1933-1951 as well as chaplain to the king of England. His writings include literary works and Christianity in England, Good News (1945). Many of his hymns appeared in various twentieth-century editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Alington, who had become DD at Oxford in 1917, received other honours: he was chaplain to the king from 1921 to 1933, and he was made an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1926, and an honorary DCL at Durham in 1937. He died at his home, Treago, St Weonards, Herefordshire, on 16 May 1955 and was buried at Durham Cathedral.
He married, on 5 April 1904, Hester Margaret (1874 - 1958), youngest daughter of George William Lyttelton, the fourth Lord Lyttelton. The couple had two sons and four daughters:
Kathleen Lucy Alington (1908–1938)
Elizabeth Hester Alington (1909–1990), married Sir Alec Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of Home), British prime minister
Lavinia Sybil Alington (1911–1994), married Sir Roger Mynors, academic and classical scholar
Giles Alington (1914–1956), Dean and Senior Tutor of University College, Oxford
Joan Argentine Alington (1916–2000), married Rev. John Vaughan Wilkes, Master in College and later housemaster at Eton, Warden of Radley College and later vicar of Marlow
Patrick Cyril Waynflete Alington (1920–1943), killed at Salerno in World War II
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