Alfred Gatty

Alfred Gatty (18 April 1813 – 20 January 1903) was a Church of England vicar and author.

He was born in London to Robert Gatty, a solicitor, and Margaret Jones, and was educated first at Charterhouse and then at Eton College. In 1831 he entered Exeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1836. He was ordained a deacon in 1837 and was appointed as curate of Bellerby in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was ordained priest in 1838, and was appointed vicar of Ecclesfield on 23 September 1839, a position he held until his death. In 1861 he was appointed as rural dean and in 1862 as subdean of York Minster.

Gatty received the degree Doctor of Divinity (DD).

Publications

With Margaret Gatty: 1842—Recollections of the Life of the Rev. A. J. Scott, DD, Lord Nelson's Chaplain 1860—Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff 1861—The Old Folks from Home 1872—The Book of Sundials

As sole author: 1848—The Bell: its Origin, History, and Uses 1881—Key to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' 1873—Sheffield, Past and Present 1884—A Life at One Living

In 1869 he published an enlarged edition of Joseph Hunter's Hallamshire.