HAVERGAL, Rev. Henry East, M.A.

HAVERGAL (Rev. Henry East, M.A.). Was eldest son of the Rev. W. H. Havergal, Hon. Canon of Worcester, and brother of Frances Ridley Havergal, the eminent poetess. The subject of this sketch was born in 1820, and died Jan. 12, 1875. The public press at the period of his decease, declared—that the Church had lost a most accomplished musical clergyman. In 1842 he graduated at New College, Oxford, and became chaplain of his college, and of Christ Church. These offices he resigned in 1847, on being…