1. Cyril Argentine Alington was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author.
17 Facts About Cyril Alington
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Cyril Alington was successively the headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College.
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Cyril Alington served as chaplain to King George V and as Dean of Durham.
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Cyril Alington's father came from a long line of clerics, a branch of the landed gentry Alington family of Little Barford Manor House, St Neots, Huntingdonshire, and was descended from the Alingtons of Horseheath, an ancient Cambridgeshire family, from which descended the Barons Alington.
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Cyril Alington was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford.
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Cyril Alington gained a First in Classical Moderations in 1893 and a First in Literae Humaniores in 1895.
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Cyril Alington was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1896.
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Cyril Alington was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1901.
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Cyril Alington moved to Eton College in 1899, but left to become headmaster of Shrewsbury School in 1908.
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From 1933 to 1951 Cyril Alington served as Dean of Durham.
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Cyril Alington had become a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford in 1917 and received other honours: he was chaplain to the King from 1921 until 1933; he was made an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford in 1926, and an honorary DCL at Durham University in 1937.
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Cyril Alington received the freedom of the City of Durham in 1949.
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Cyril Alington appeared on the cover of Time magazine on 29 June 1931.
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In 1904, Cyril Alington married Hester Margaret Lyttelton, the youngest daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton.
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Cyril Alington died at the age of 82 and was buried at Durham Cathedral, where there is a memorial in the north transept.
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Cyril Alington wrote more than 50 books, including works on religion, biography, history, poetry, and a series of detective novels.
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Cyril Alington wrote several popular hymns, including Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing, Ye that know The Lord is gracious and The Lord of Hosts Our King Shall Be which is used as the epigraph to Nevil Shute's novel In the Wet.