Alfred Gurney

His father having died in 1862, the five children were brought up by Russell and Emelia Gurney, their uncle and aunt.

This was a false start, because Charles Ellicott as bishop refused to ordain Gurney, citing Randall's ritualism.

[8] Gurney was from 1879 vicar of St Barnabas, Pimlico, in London—an 1850 church associated with the Oxford Movement—and became known for religious verse.

[12] During the 1890s Gurney had the original decoration of St Barnabas, by Thomas Cundy, elaborated by George Frederick Bodley.

[15] He gave a lecture on her late brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1883 at Somerville College, Oxford, and wrote a work of criticism, A Dream of Fair Women.

[22] In 1891, Gurney encouraged the young, ailing Aubrey Beardsley, who was now working in London, to go into illustration; he was then supported by friends such as Aymer Vallance.