Alfred Gatty (18 April 1813 – 20 January 1903) was aChurch of England vicar and author.
He was born in London to Robert Gatty, a solicitor, and Margaret Jones, and was educated first atCharterhouse and then atEton College. In 1831 he enteredExeter College, Oxford, graduating in 1836. He was ordained a deacon in 1837 and was appointed as curate of Bellerby in the North Riding of Yorkshire. He was ordained priest in 1838, and was appointed vicar ofEcclesfield on 23 September 1839, a position he held until his death. In 1861 he was appointed as rural dean and in 1862 as subdean ofYork Minster.
Gatty received the degreeDoctor of Divinity (DD).[1]
On 8 July 1839 he marriedMargaret Scott, daughter of Rev. Dr. Scott, a chaplain to Lord Nelson.[1] They had ten children (though two died in infancy), including the judgeStephen Herbert Gatty, the authorJuliana Horatia Ewing, antiquary, author and lecturerCharles Tindal Gatty and the officer of arms and composerAlfred Scott-Gatty. Margaret died in 1873, and in 1884 Alfred Gatty married Mary Newman.
He died at Ecclesfield on 20 January 1903, in his 90th year.[1]
With Margaret Gatty:
As sole author:
In 1869 he published an enlarged edition ofJoseph Hunter'sHallamshire.
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