James Beresford (28 May 1764 – 29 September 1840) was a writer and clergyman. He was born in Upham in Hampshire and educated at Charterhouse School and became a fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He made translations and wrote religious books, but was chiefly known as the author of a satirical work, The Miseries of Human Life, considered to be a "minor classic in the genre".[1] Beresford also wrote under the pseudonyms An Aspirant, Ignato Secudno, Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy.[2] He was rector of Kibworth from 1812 until his death.
James Beresford | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 May 1764 |
| Died | 29 November 1840 (aged 76) |
| Occupation(s) | writer, clergyman |
| Notable work | The Miseries of Human Life (1806–07) |
Bibliography edit
This list of works is taken from Beresford's obituary, published in the May 1841 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine.[3]
- The Æneid of Virgil (1794)
- The Song of the Sun (1805)
- The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- The Miseries of Human Life (1806)
- A Discourse on Cruelty to the Brute Creation (1809)
- Bibliosophia, or Book-Wisdom (1810)
- A Thanksgiving Sermon (1814)
- Does Faith Insure Good Works? (1814)
- A Letter to Philo, in Answer to his Objections Against an Essay on Faith and Works (1815)
- An Examination of the Doctrines of Calvin (1818)
- On the Objects and Services of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and its Diocesan and District Committees (1819)
- The Cross and the Crescent, an Heroic Metrical Romance (1824)
- Stand! An Earnest Address to the Friends of an Embodied Church in England and Ireland (1835)
References edit
- ^ Anon (2004). "Beresford, James (1764–1840)". Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Revised by Matthew, H. C. G. (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2194. Retrieved 4 May 2010. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (subscription required)
- ^ Michael Peschke (2006). Encyclopédie Internationale Des Pseudonymes. Walter de Gruyter. p. 249. ISBN 978-3-598-24961-7.
- ^ "Obituary: Rev. James Beresford, M.A.", The Gentleman's Magazine, p. 574, May 1841, retrieved 4 May 2010
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