Short Name: |
A. J. B. Beresford Hope |
Full Name: |
Beresford Hope, A. J. B. (Alexander James Beresford), 1820-1887 |
Birth Year: |
1820 |
Death Year: |
1887 |
Hope, Alexander James Beresford, LL.D., born Jan. 25, 1820, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, was M.P. for his University for several years, and died Oct. 20, 1887. He is connected with hymnology through his Hymns of the Church, literally translated, for the use of English Congregations, Lond., J. & F. Rivington. 1844. None of these translations have come into common use. In the Cambridge University Calendar he is entered as “Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope PC (25 January 1820 – 20 October 1887), known as Alexander Hope until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854 and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a British author and Conservative politician.
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