Aldrich, HENRY

Aldrich, HENRY, born at Westminster in 1647, passed in 1662 from Westminster School to Christchurch, Oxford, of which he became a canon in 1682, and dean in 1689. He designed the Peck-water Quadrangle, and wrote the well-known catch, 'Hark, the bonny Christchurch Bells;' but he is less remembered as architect or composer, or even as an inveterate smoker, than as the author of the Artis Logice Compendium (1691), of which a new edition appeared in 1862. He died 14th December 1710.