Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and clergyman. Alternative signature: C. R. Longfield. Born in Ballynoe, Cork, Ireland. Educated at Emmanuel College, Oxford. Ordained a priest in 1894. Curate of several parishes in Ireland (1894-1899). Married Anna Arabella Bomford on 12 July 1899. Chaplain in India (1899-1903). Died in Subathu, Bengal, India. Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for Longfield’s Exile, published on 1 April 1899, lists the author as Rev. C. R. Longfield, of St. Luke’s, Cork (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Venn, part 2. vol. 4, p. 207; Ancestry. (AC, CC)