Edward Atkyns Bray
Edward Atkyns Bray (1778–1857) was a British poet, vicar, and miscellaneous writer.
Bray was the only son of Edward Bray, solicitor, and manager of the
- Sermons from the Works of the most eminent Divines of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries, 1818
- Discourses from Tracts and Treatises of Eminent Divines, 1821
- Select Sermons by Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1823
- Discourses on Protestantism, 1829 (his own sermons)
His poetical productions were for the most part circulated privately. After Bray's death his widow collected and published his Poetical Remains (1859, 2 vols), and also A Selection from the Sermons, General and Occasional, of Rev. E. A. Bray (1860, 2 vols). At one time he projected a history of his native town of Tavistock, and made considerable collections for it, but the undertaking was never completed. Many extracts from his journals describing the curiosities of Dartmoor and many of his poems are inserted in his wife's A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy (1836). When she published her work on Switzerland she embodied with it many passages in the diary which her husband kept whilst on the tour.
References
Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
.External links
- Hutchinson, John (1902). . A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 30.