Church, Richard (1893–1972)

English poet and novelist. His Collected Poems appeared in 1948. His best-known novel, The Porch (1938), forms a sequence with The Stronghold (1939) and The Room Within (1940).

Later novels include The Sampler (1942), Green Tide (1944), and The Dangerous Years, Prince Albert (1963). Among his other works are The Growth of the English Novel (1950) and his autobiographical volumes Over the Bridge (1955) and The Golden Sovereign (1957).

Church, Richard (1784–1873)

Irish soldier. He was general of land forces in the Greek War of Independence 1827–29 and forced the garrisons of Missolonghi and Lepanto to surrender. He took part in the revolution of 1843, which gave Greece a constitutional government.

Church was British representative with the Austrian troops at the time of Napoleon's fall (1813–14), and served King Ferdinand of Naples 1817–20.