Henry Harper (priest)

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

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

He died on 20 January 1922.[9]

References

1. 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Monday, October 12, 1863; pg. 3; Issue 12221
2. NZETC
3. Project Canterbury
4. WJO
5. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Harper, Henry William" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p82: London, Herbert Cox, 1908
7. ‘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
8. St Mary's (Anglican) Parish Church, Timaru, N.Z.
9. The Venerable H. W. Harper. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 25, 1922; pg. 12; Issue 42938.

External links

• Works by Henry Harper at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)