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Randolph (ALFRED MAGILL an American)

ALFRED MAGILL, an American clergyman; born in Winchester, Va., Aug. 31, 1836; was graduated at William and Mary College in 1855 and at the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1858; was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church; became rector of St.

George's Church, Fredericksburg, Va., in 1860, and remained there till the assault on the town by the Union troops in 1862. He was a chaplain in the Confederate army in 1863-1865, and was rector in 1867-1883. In 1892 he was elected bishop of the Southern Virginia diocese.

Published "Reason, Faith, and Authority in Christianity" (1902). He died in 1918..