Jelf, RICHARD WILLIAM, theologian, was born 25th January 1798, the second son of Sir James Jelf. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, took a second-class in 1820, and became Fellow of Oriel, and later, tutor. In 1826 he was appointed preceptor to Prince George of Cumberland, afterwards king of Hanover, in 1839 Canon of Christ Church, and in 1844 Principal of King's College, London. He died September 19, 1871. His most important work is his Bampton Lectures for 1844, The Means of Grace. Dr Jelf was a pillar of orthodoxy, and his name will be best remembered for the part he took in the proceedings which led to Maurice being deprived of his professorship at King's College for unsound views on the question of eternal punishment expressed in his Theological
Essays. His Thirty-nine Articles Explained was edited by J. R. King in 1873.