Henry Harper (priest)

The Ven. Henry William Harper, MA[1] (1833[2]-1922) was an eminent New Zealand Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[3]

He was educated at Eton College[4] and Trinity College, Oxford[5][6] and ordained in 1858.[7] After a curacy at Waimakariri he was Vicar of Hokitika then Timaru.[8] He was Archdeacon of Timaru from 1875 to[9] 1911.

He died on 20 January 1922.[10]

References

  1. 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Monday, October 12, 1863; pg. 3; Issue 12221
  2. NTETC
  3. Project Canterbury
  4. WJO
  5. Alumni Oxonienses
  6. Morning Chronicle (London, England), Thursday, May 29, 1856; Issue 27902
  7. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p82: London, Herbert Cox, 1908
  8. ‘HARPER, Ven. Henry William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 Nov 2014
  9. St Mary's (Anglican) Parish Church, Timaru, N.Z.
  10. The Venerable H. W. Harper. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 25, 1922; pg. 12; Issue 42938.


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