Alfred Magill Randolph
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The Right Reverend Alfred Magill Randolph |
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| Province |
The Episcopal Church 
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| Diocese | Diocese of Southern Virginia |
| Predecessor | n/a |
| Successor | Beverley D. Tucker |
| Other posts | Assistant bishop of Virginia |
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| Ordination | 1860 |
| Consecration | October 22, 1883 |
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| Born | August 31, 1836 Winchester, Virginia |
| Died | April 6, 1918 Norfolk, Virginia |
| Buried | Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) |
| Spouse | Sarah (Sally) Griffith Hoxley |
| Alma mater |
College of William and Mary Virginia Theological Seminary |
Alfred Magill Randolph (August 31, 1836 – April 6, 1918) was the first bishop of Southern Virginia in The Episcopal Church.
Alfred Magill Randolph was born on August 31, 1836 at "the Meadows" in Winchester, Virginia to Mary Buckner Thruston Magill Randolph (1809-1890, whose family's house that was) and her husband Robert Lee Randolph (1791-1857) of Casanova, Fauquier County, Virginia. His father's family could trace its ancestry to colonial days and was one of the First Families of Virginia. His ancestor Col. William Randolph of Yorkshire, England emigrated in 1674 and was clerk of Henrico County, Virginia as well as member of the House of Burgesses and rose to Speaker and member of the Royal Council, as well as helped found the College of William and Mary. Alfred Randolph was one of four brothers--his younger brother Buckner Magill Randolph (1842-1903) also becoming an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Virginia. Other siblings were: William Fitzhugh Randolph (1831-1914), Mary Magill Turner (1833-1910) and Beverly Randolph (1839-1917); his sister Elizabeth died in infancy (1837). The R. L. Randolph family owned 61 slaves in the 1840 census, and at least 70 in the 1850 census, the last before the patriarch's death.
After education by private tutors, Alfred Randolph attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, from which he graduated in 1855. He then moved to Alexandria to study for the ministry, and graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1858. He later received honorary doctorates from William and Mary College in 1876, Washington and Lee University in 1887, and the University of the South in 1902.
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