English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author (1872–1955)
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The Very Reverend
Cyril Alington
Dean of Durham
Alington in 1908 at the time of his appointment to Shrewsbury School
Church
Church of England
Diocese
Diocese of Durham
In office
1933 to 1951
Other post(s)
Headmaster of Shrewsbury School (1908–1916) Head Master of Eton College (1916–1933)
Orders
Ordination
1901
Personal details
Born
Cyril Argentine Alington
(1872-10-22)22 October 1872
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Died
16 May 1955(1955-05-16) (aged 82) St Weonards, Herefordshire, England
Buried
Durham Cathedral
Denomination
Anglicanism
Parents
Henry Giles Alington (1837–1928) Jane Margaret Booth (d. 1910)
Spouse
Hester Margaret Lyttelton (d. 1958)
Children
6, including Elizabeth and Giles
Cyril Argentine Alington (22 October 1872 – 16 May 1955) was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author. He was successively the headmaster of Shrewsbury School and Eton College. He also served as chaplain to King George V and as Dean of Durham.
Cyril Argentine Alington (22 October 1872 – 16 May 1955) was an English educationalist, scholar, cleric, and author. He was successively the headmaster...
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foundation of Durham University. In the 1930s, under the inspiration of Dean CyrilAlington, work began on restoring the Shrine of Saint Cuthbert behind the high...
Schools. Alington died at the village of his birth on 2 December 1928. Alington married Jane Margaret Booth (died 1910). Their son CyrilAlington was known...
look into rumours that she was seducing boys at Eton. The headmaster, CyrilAlington, was unwilling to share what he knew and was anxious to keep the story...
major fire in 1905. Moss was succeeded in 1908 by CyrilAlington, then Master in College at Eton. Alington, though a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford,...
a 1980 novel by Edward Abbey Good News, a 1945 non-fiction work by CyrilAlington Good News (Cliff Richard album), 1967 Good News!, a 1973 album by Jody...
Eastbourne, while her grandfather on her mother's side (the Very Rev CyrilAlington) had been Headmaster of Eton, Dean of Durham and author of many famous...
An Eton Poetry Book is an anthology edited by CyrilAlington and George Lyttelton, with an introduction by A. C. Benson. The editors' intentions were "to...
onward). Among Head Masters of the late 19th and 20th centuries were CyrilAlington, Robert Birley and Anthony Chenevix-Trench. M. R. James was a Provost...
in Hereford where he died aged 84. Wilkes married Joan Alington, a daughter of CyrilAlington in 1940. Her father was headmaster of Eton and Dean of Durham...
identified most closely with CyrilAlington, the school's headmaster: "Because of Alington I call myself ... an old Salopian". Alington first detected Cardus's...
served in military intelligence for the British Armed Forces. In 1915, CyrilAlington, the headmaster of Shrewsbury School, invited Knox to join the teaching...
the Art of Poetry, University of South Carolina Press, 2004, p. 58 CyrilAlington, Poets at Play Holroyd, Michael. Hugh Kingsmill, A Critical Biography...
pre-Raphaelite tradition and the ruling philosophy of Platonism, and headmaster CyrilAlington, a worldly teacher with the cult of light verse such as Winthrop Mackworth...
by a panel of experts (only one of whom seems to have been named — CyrilAlington) and they chose for each month one book which they termed a Selection...
William Hildebrand Alington (18 November 1929 – 24 February 2024) was a New Zealand modernist architect, whose work was awarded nationally, and recognised...
Wood, cricketer Kenneth Woodroffe, cricketer William Wright, cricketer CyrilAlington, headmaster, and Dean of Durham Henry Bather, Archdeacon of Ludlow 1892–1904...
Flintshire. Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Ye that know the Lord is gracious CyrilAlington Robert David Griffith. "Prichard, Rowland Huw (1812-1887), musician"...