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Bishop Alexander and the Jews of Jerusalem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Patrick Irwin
Patrick Irwin*
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Pembroke College, Cambridge
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The Devastation reached Palestine on 20 January 1842. She brought with her Michael Solomon Alexander, first Anglican bishop in Jerusalem. The bishop was originally to have been transported to Palestine in HMS Infernal. At this his Lordship demurred and the Admiralty obligingly thought again. So it was that HMS Devastation was the carrier of the bishop to the Holy Land. The Admiralty’s assistance was supplemented by Mr Arthur Guinness, who in the first of his firm’s timely benefactions to the Anglican church had provided without charge a supply of stout.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 21: Persecution and Toleration , 1984 , pp. 317 - 327
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1984

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1 Jerusalem and the East Mission Private Papers box 1 files 1–3 in the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford, contain a typed biography and correspondence of Alexander. I wish to acknowledge the Jerusalem and Middle East Church Association’s generosity in granting me access to them.

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18 Ibid 501, Aberdeen to Young 3 May 1842.

19 Ibid 368 no 2, Bidwell to Young 31 January 1839.

20 Ibid 501 no 7, Young to Aberdeen 11 October 1842.

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