Charles Ingham Black

Charles Ingham Black was born about 1821. A na­tive of Sligo, Black was ed­u­cat­ed at Trin­i­ty Coll­ege, Dub­lin, and in 1855 be­came Cur­ate of Burl­ey in Wharfe­dale where he served for 40 years. It was said that Black was a stu­dent all his life, an ex­cell­ent the­o­lo­gian and class­ic­al schol­ar, and a writ­er of prose and verse. He com­posed a num­ber of car­ols. Black died about May 1896 in Burl­ey in Wharfe­dale, West York­shire, Eng­land.

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