Alfred Gatty (18 April 1813 – 20 January 1903) was a

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vicar and author. Mrs Alfred Gatty

He was born in London to Robert Gatty, a solicitor, and Margaret Jones. In 1831 he entered

Exeter College, Oxford (Let Exeter Flourish) , old_names = ''Stapeldon Hall'' , named_for = Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter , established = , sister_college = Emmanuel College, Cambridge , rector = Sir Richard Trainor ...

, graduating in 1836. He was ordained a deacon in 1837 and was appointed as curate of Bellerby in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was ordained priest in 1838, and was appointed vicar of

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on 23 September 1839, a position he held until his death. In 1861 he was appointed as rural dean and in 1862 as subdean of York Minster. On 8 July 1839 he married Margaret Scott, with whom he had ten children (though two died in infancy), including the judge Stephen Herbert Gatty, the author

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, antiquary, author and lecturer Charles Tindal Gatty and the officer of arms and composer Alfred Scott-Gatty. Margaret died in 1873, and in 1884 Alfred Gatty married Mary Newman.

Publications

With Margaret Gatty: *1842—Recollections of the Life of the Rev. A. J. Scott, DD, Lord Nelson's Chaplain *1860—Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff *1861—The Old Folks from Home *1872—The Book of Sundials As sole author: *1848—The Bell: its Origin, History, and Uses *1881—Key to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' *1873—Sheffield, Past and Present *1884—A Life at One Living In 1869 he published an enlarged edition of Joseph Hunter's ''Hallamshire''.

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