HUGH REGINALD

See also:

• HUGH REGINALD HAWEIS (1838-1901)

HAWEIS (1838-1901)  , English preacher and writer, was born at Egham, Surrey. on the 3rd of April 1838 . On leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, he travelled in Italy and served under Garibaldi in 186o . On his return to England he was ordained and held various curacies in London. becoming in 1866 incumbent of St James's, Marylebone . His unconventional methods of conducting the service, combined with his dwarfish figure and lively manner, soon attracted crowded congregations . He married Miss M . E . Joy in 1866, and both he and Mrs Haweis (d . 1898) contributed largely to periodical literature and travelled a good deal abroad . Haweis was Lowell lecturer at Boston, U.S.A., in 1885, and represented the Anglican Church at the Chicago Parliament of Religions in 1893 . He was much interested in music, and wrote books on violins and church bells, besides contributing an article to the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on bell-ringing . His best-known book was Music and Morals (3rd ed., 1873); and for a time he was editor of Cassell's Magazine . He also wrote five volumes on Christ and Christianity (a popular church history, 1886-1887) .

Other writings include Travel and Talk (1896), and similar chatty and entertaining books . He died on the 29th of

January 1901 .