Born: January 18, 1793, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.
Died: April 19, 1870, Leamington, Warwickshire, England.
Buried: Astley, Worcestershire, England. The epitaph on his white marble tomb reads:
The Rev. William Henry Havergal, M.S., Vicar of Shareshill and Hon. Canon of Worcester Cathedral. Died at Leamington, 19th April 1870, aged 77. Curate 7, and Rector 13 years, of this parish, 1822 to 1843. “A faithful minister in the Lord” (Eph. Vi. 21). |
Memorial tablets to him were placed in Worcester Cathedral, St. Nicholas and Shareshill churches.
Havergal was educated at St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford, earning his bachelor’s degree in 1815, and his master’s in 1819. He held three rectorships: Astley, Worcestershire (1829); St. Nicholas, Worcester (1842); and Shareshill, near Wolverhamptom (1860). Hymnist Frances Havergal was his daughter.
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