Henry Alford
Henry Alford may refer to: *Henry Alford (theologian) (1810–1871), English churchman, theologian, poet and writer :* Alford's Law, his rule for Biblical interpretation * Henry Alford (police officer) (1816–1892), South Australian mounted policeman, hotelier * Henry Alford (writer) (born 1962), American humorist * Henry King Alford (1852–1930), mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland See also * Harry L. Alford (1875–1939), American arranger and composer of band marches *Alford plea In United States law, an Alford plea, also called a Kennedy plea in West Virginia, an Alford guilty plea, and the Alford doctrine, is a guilty plea in criminal court, whereby a defendant in a criminal case does not admit to the criminal act a ...

Henry Alford (theologian)
Henry Alford (7 October 181012 January 1871) was an English churchman, theologian, Textual Criticism, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer. Life Alford was born at 25 Alfred Place, Bedford Square, London of a Somerset, Somersetshire family, which had given five consecutive generations of clergymen to the Anglican church. Alford's early years were passed with his widowed father, who was curate of Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire. He was a precocious lad, and before he was ten had written several Latin odes, a history of the Jews and a series of homiletic outlines. After a peripatetic school course he went up to Cambridge in 1827 as a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity in 1827. In 1832 he was 34th wrangler and 8th classic, and in 1834 was made a fellow of Trinity. Service He had already taken orders, and in 1835 began his eighteen years' tenure of the vicarage of Wymeswold in Leicestershire, from which seclusion the twice-repeated offer of a colonial Dioc ...
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Alford's Law
This ''Law'' or ''Rule'' was formulated by Henry Alford (1810-1871) as a rule of biblical interpretation. It appeared in his monumental multi-volume work completed in 1861, ''The Greek Testament'', which is still consulted today. Content Alford presented the ''rule'' as follows with specific reference to the first resurrection in Rev. 20:4– 6: :"If, in a passage where two resurrections are mentioned, where certain "souls lived" at the first, and the rest of the "dead lived" only at the end of a specified period after that first, - if in such a passage the first resurrection may be understood to mean spiritual rising with Christ, while the second means literal rising from the grave; then there is an end of all significance in language, and Scripture is wiped out as a definite testimony to anything. If the first resurrection is spiritual, then so is the second, which I suppose none will be hardy enough to maintain. But if the second is literal, then so is the first, which in commo ...
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Henry Alford (police Officer)
Henry Alford (12 February 1816 – 20 February 1892) was a police trooper in colonial South Australia, the colony's first mounted constable. He left the force at a time of low morale and became a hotel owner and publican, in which pursuit he was followed by his two sons. History Alford was born in Acton, Middlesex. He emigrated to South Australia aboard '' John Pirie'' on a twelve-month contract as an employee of the South Australian Land Company, embarking at Kangaroo Island in August 1836. One of his first assignments was to purchase and accompany from Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land) two horses and two bullocks, the first brought into the colony. He was next employed by John Barton Hack, who had a small but increasing stock of farm animals. Alford and two others volunteered as special constables to bring in three escaped convicts from Tasmania, led by the outlaw Morgan, whom they apprehended near the whaling stations at Encounter Bay. In April 1838 Governor Hindmarsh inaug ...
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Henry Alford (writer)
Henry Alford is a humorist and journalist who has written for ''The New Yorker'' magazine for more than two decades. He was previously a columnist for ''The New York Times'' and a contributing editor to '' Vanity Fair''. He has written six books, including ''How to Live'' and ''Big Kiss'', an account of his attempts to become a working actor, which won a Thurber Prize. Sometimes called an "investigative humorist," Alford is primarily known for his first-person quests and exploits. These include creating a gourmet meal out of food purchased at a 99-Cent Store, eating at a nude restaurant in Paris with his boyfriend, inviting a restaurant health inspector to rate his apartment's kitchen while he was serving lunch to friends, and trying to pass the National Dog Groomers Association's certification test by applying lipstick to his cocker spaniel's snout and telling the test's judge, "I like a dog with a face." His humor pieces for ''The New Yorker'' have included his imagining Bri ...
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Henry King Alford
Henry King Alford (1852–1930) was the mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland from 1911–1912. He was born on 22 July 1852 to Thomas Alford, a pioneer in the Toowoomba district, and is reputed to be the first white child born in Toowoomba. He worked at the Australian Joint Stock Bank The Australian Joint Stock Bank was a bank in Australia. It operated from 1852 to 1910, after which it became the Australian Bank of Commerce and then was taken over by the Bank of New South Wales in 1931. History The Australian Joint Stock Ba ... as a young man before becoming involved in real estate. He died on 19 August 1930. References 1852 births 1930 deaths Colony of Queensland people Mayors of Toowoomba {{Australia-mayor-stub ...
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Harry L
Harry may refer to: Television * ''Harry'' (American TV series), 1987 comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (New Zealand TV series), 2013 crime drama starring Oscar Kightley * ''Harry'' (talk show), 2016 American daytime talk show hosted by Harry Connick Jr. People and fictional characters *Harry (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name, including **Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, (Henry Charles Albert David; born 15 September 1984) is a member of the British royal family. As the younger son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, he is fifth in the line of succession to t ... (born 1984) * Harry (surname), a list of people with the surname Other uses *"Harry", the tunnel used in the Stalag Luft III escape ("The Great Escape") of World War II * ''Harry'' (album), a 1969 album by Harry Nilsson * Harry (derogatory te ...
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