Introduction

Biography

Alfred was the son of Ed­ward Gra­ham Als­ton, Queen’s Ad­vo­cate at Si­er­ra Le­one, and An­na Ca­ro­line Ab­bott, and hus­band of Aud­rey Ffolkes (mar­ried No­vem­ber 4, 1912, Lon­don, Eng­land).

He was edu­cat­ed at St. Paul’s School and Glou­ces­ter Theo­lo­gi­cal Col­lege.

He was or­dained an Ang­li­can dea­con in 1886, and priest in 1887.

He served as cur­ate of St. Mark’s, Glou­ces­ter (1886–87), and rec­tor of Fram­ing­ham Earl (1887).

Works

• Ordinale Ang­li­can­um. A Brief Di­rec­to­ry of Di­vine Service in Ac­cord­ance with the Book of Com­mon Pray­er, 1902
• Some Li­tur­gi­cal Hymns New­ly Ren­dered from the La­tin, with the An­cient Me­lo­dies (Nor­wich, Eng­land: 1903)
• Crede Mihi: Sug­gest­ions for the Rubrical Re­ci­ta­tion of Di­vine Serv­ice in Ac­cord­ance with the Prin­ci­ples of the Book of Com­mon Pray­er, 1904
• A Study of the Ro­man Mass: Sug­gest­ed by Re­cent Cri­ti­cism, 1906
• Origines Eu­cha­ris­ti­cae: A Stu­dy of the Li­tur­gy Un­der the Light of Re­cent­ly Pub­lished Do­cu­ments, with Zouch Hor­ace Tur­ton (Wells Gar­dner, Dar­ton, 1908)