10 Facts About Alfred Hackman

Alfred Hackman was educated in France, and then spent several years as an usher in a boarding-school run by his father.

Alfred Hackman graduated from university with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1837 and then received a Master of Arts degree in 1840.

In 1837, Alfred Hackman became the chaplain of Christ Church College in Oxford, and curate to the Reverend Henry Gary at St Paul's Church in Oxford.

Alfred Hackman was appointed by his college vicar of Cowley, near Oxford, in 1839, and was from 1841 to 1873 a precentor at Christ Church.

From 1844 to 1871 Alfred Hackman was vicar of St Paul's, where he exercised a considerable influence as a preacher, not only on his own parishioners, but on the undergraduates of the university, who were attracted by his earnestness and quaint vivacity.

Alfred Hackman attended to his parish, with his free time largely occupied by his duties in the Bodleian Library, where in 1862 he was appointed sub-librarian.

Alfred Hackman published A Catalogue of the Collection of the Tanner MSS in the Bodleian, Oxford 1860.

In 1873, Alfred Hackman retired from the library and Christ Church due to poor health.

Alfred Hackman died, unmarried, in his brother's house in the village of Long Ditton, Surrey, on 18 Sep 1874.

Alfred Hackman was buried at St Sepulchre's Cemetery in Oxford.