Surname: Hale Forename(s): Philip Nationality: English.
Poet and Church of England clergyman. Pseudonym: “A Priest of the Church of England.”
Educated at St. John’s College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1841. Headmaster at the Grammar
School in St-Martin-in-the-Fields (1844-1856). Vicar of Burrington, Herefordshire
(1856-1866). Master of Daventry Grammar School (1866-1868). Author of Marriage with a Deceased Wife’s Sister Repugnant to Christian Feelings and Contrary
to Christian Practice (1848), Plea for Archbishop Tenison’s Library (1851), Selene: A Christian Fairy Tale (1855), and An Apology for the Sign of the Cross (1857). Biographical information: Crockford, p. 367; Norman MacLeod, Good Words, December, Strahan & Co. Magazine Publishers, 1869, p. vi. (CC)