William Henry Havergal
Born: 18th January 1729, High Wycombe, England
Died: 19th April 1870, Royal Leamington Spa, England
Nationality: English
William Henry Havergal was an Anglican clergyman, writer, composer and hymnwriter, and a publisher of sermons and pamphlets. He was the father of the hymn-writer and poet Frances Ridley Havergal and the clergyman and organist Henry East Havergal (1820–1875).
Havergal was born in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he gained a BA in 1815 and an MA in 1819. He was ordained deacon in 1816 and priest in 1817, and became rector of Astley in Worcestershire in 1829, St. Nicholas, Worcester in 1842, and perpetual curate of Shareshill near Wolverhampton in 1860.
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