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Description: | s. inscr. base "A. Allison A[M or N?] / 180[0 or 2?] / John Henning F." CRE HENNING, John; (1771-1851) 1802 Alison, a Scottish Episcopal clergyman and writer on aesthetics, was educated at the University of Glasgow and at Balliol College, Oxford. Alison is best known for his Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste which he published in 1790. In that year he was also given the curacy of Kenley in Shropshire where he enjoyed "literary study with active beneficence and easy independence". In 1800 Alison and his family returned to Edinburgh where he became minister of the Episcopal church in the Cowgate where he remained for the rest of his career. He published a two volume collection of Sermons, Chiefly on Particular Occasions in 1814. He retired from the ministry in November 1830 following a period of ill-health and died, aged 81, in 1839.
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