Charles Alford

Charles Richard Alford (13 August 1816 – 13 June 1898) was an Anglican bishop and author in the last third of the 19th century.

[3] He was educated at St Paul's School, London and Trinity College, Cambridge.

[5] Alford married Sarah Jacosha Fleet at St Margaret Pattens in the City of London, on 20 July 1840.

He was then Principal of Highbury Training College for a decade then vicar of Holy Trinity, Islington.

Between September and December 1868 Alford made pastoral visits to the newly established treaty ports of Japan, arriving in Yokohama on the 24th of November just in time to witness the procession of the Meiji Emperor as the Imperial capital was relocated from Kyoto to Edo.