| William Alder Strange | |
| Birth Date: | 23 June 1813 |
| Birth Place: | Abingdon-on-Thames |
| Death Place: | Bishop Middleham |
William Alder Strange (1813–1874)[1] was a headmaster and author.[2]
The son of William Strange of Jersey and Abingdon, a wine merchant, William Alder Strange was educated at Christ's Hospital, London, where he was Senior Grecian, John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon-on-Thames (now Abingdon School),[3] and Pembroke College, Oxford, where he held a college scholarship. He was awarded the first Boden scholarship in Sanskrit at Oxford in 1833.[4]
Strange was appointed as a master at the Liverpool Royal Institution in 1833, then served as headmaster of Abingdon School from 1840 to 1868.[5] [3] [4]
Augustus Hare described a visit in 1857: "...we had lunch with the Head-master of the Grammar School, who, as soon as it was over, apologised for leaving us because he had got 'to wallop so many boys'."[6]
After retiring from Abingdon, he was vicar of Bishop Middleham in County Durham from 1868 to 1874.[3] [4]
Dr Strange was twice married:
His eldest son Cresswell Strange was Canon Residentiary of Worcester.[7]
He published Cards on Logic, a series of his Sermons and was also a contributor to The Christian Annotator.