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- M. A., London, Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge.
He entered Trinity College in July 1867, aged 26. He was born in County Antrim; his father's name was Adam McClure, described as a merchant. They were C of E. Previously, he had studied at Queens College, Belfast. He graduated BA from Trinity in Winter 1870.
He was deaconed in 1865 and priested in 1866, and was curate of St George's in Belfast 1865-75 (while he was registered at Trinity). Before that, however, he'd worked in gold-fields in Australia and Peru, and served in the American Navy
He published children's books at SPCK, favouring the 'muscular Christianity' line. He also published a few of Christina Rossetti's poems, which gave rise to somewhat acrimonious correspondence (on line) with her brother Michael when it came to obtaining permission to print them in a collected edition.
- (Research):McClure, Revd Edmund (d.1922), - 1922, Canon of St George's, Belfast 1865-75; editorial secretary, Society for Promoting...
The Rev. Edmund McClure, curate of St George, Belfast, married there on 1 July 1873 Emily, eldest dau. of the late John Davison of Raceview, Broughshane, Co. Antrim, and his wife Mary Harrison n?e Stevens or Stephens [announcement in Freeman's Journal and I think the Belfast News-Letter]. She d. in Hastings 12 Dec. 1887 [announcement in The Times].
His use of the McClure coat of arms on a bookplate seems to refer to a coat of arms, rather cleverly, as a motif on a ship's sails, so that it doesn't appear in full. It seems that he couldn't prove a right to use the coat of arms through tracing his ancestry to the armigerous branch.
McClure. ? November 18th. At the advanced age of 85, the Rev. Edmund McClure, for forty years (from 1875 to I9I5) editorial secretary of the S.P.C.K. He graduated at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1864, and at Trinity- College, Dublin, in 1870. He was for ten years curate of St. George's Church, Belfast, and in 1913 was appointed honorary canon of Bristol. In his youth and early manhood he had a varied md adventurous experience, serving in the American Navy, voyaging to the ...
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