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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Richard Frederick Littledale (1833–1890)

Littledale, Richard Frederick. An English clergyman and religious writer; born in Dublin in 1833; died in 1890. He was curate of St. Mary Virgin, London, from 1857 to 1861, when he resigned on account of ill health and devoted himself to the study of religious subjects, particularly the Anglican ritual. Among the number of polemical, historical, exegetic, and other publications, are: ‘The Catholic Ritual in the Church of England’ (1865); ‘Pharisaic Proselytism’ (1870); ‘Plain Reasons against Joining the Church of Rome’ (1880); ‘A Short History of the Council of Trent’ (1888).