Keble, John, 1792-1866

Prof. of Poetry at Oxford 1831-41, Vicar of Hursley Hursley 1836; prominent in the Tractarian movement; ed. of Hooker's works 1836; author of 8 of the Tracts for the Times. Of his Christian Year, 1827, near 500,000 copies were sold. Psalter, 1839; Lyra Innocentium, 1846; Poems, 1869. hymns.