James Hildyard (1809–87)

Clergyman and classical scholar. Shrewsbury School, 1820–9. BA, Cambridge, 1833; fellow, Christ’s College, 1833. Ordained priest, 1834. Hebrew lecturer and tutor, 1840. Relished acrimonious disagreement in university politics. Incumbent of Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire, 1846–87. An advocate for the revision of the Book of Common Prayer.