James Hessey

James Augustus Hessey (17 July 1814 – 24 December 1892) was a British cleric and Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School. where he was for some years a resident fellow and lecturer. He graduated B.A. in 1836, M.A. in 1840, B.D. in 1845 and D.C.L. in 1846. and from 1850 to 1879 preacher of Gray's Inn. From 1872 to 1874 he was classical examiner for the Indian Civil Service, before being collated Archdeacon of Middlesex in 1875, a post he filled until his death in 1892. being the Bampton lectures at Oxford, London, 1860; 2nd edit. 1861; 3rd edit. 1866; 4th edit. 1880; fifth edit. 1889. Biographies of the Kings of Judah. Twelve Lectures, London, 1865. This volume includes the six lectures which were privately printed in 1858. Moral Difficulties connected with the Bible: being the Boyle Lectures for 1871–3, three series, London, 1871–3.

In 1853 he edited the Institutio Linguae Sanctae of Victorinus Bythner.