James Beresford
Born(1764-05-28)28 May 1764
Died29 November 1840(1840-11-29) (aged 76)
Occupation(s)writer, clergyman
Notable workThe Miseries of Human Life (1806–07)


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.

Bibliography

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

  1. ↑ 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)
  2. ↑ Michael Peschke (2006). Encyclopédie Internationale Des Pseudonymes. Walter de Gruyter. p. 249. ISBN 978-3-598-24961-7.
  3. ↑ "Obituary: Rev. James Beresford, M.A.", The Gentleman's Magazine, p. 574, May 1841, retrieved 4 May 2010


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