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REGINALD HEBER (1783-1826) , See also: English See also: bishop and hymn-writer, was See also: born at Malpas in See also: Cheshire on the 21st of See also: April 1783
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His See also: father, who belonged to an old See also: Yorkshire See also: family, held a moiety of the living of Malpas
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Reginald Heber early showed remarkable promise, and was entered in See also: November 1800 at Brasenose See also: College, See also: Oxford, where he proved a distinguished student, carrying off prizes for a Latin poem entitled Carmen seculare, an English poem on See also: Palestine, and a See also: prose essay on The Sense of Honour
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In November 1804 he was elected a See also: fellow of All Souls College; and, after See also: finishing his distinguished university career, he made a long tour in See also: Europe
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He was admitted to See also: holy orders in 1807, and was then presented to the family living of Hodnet in See also: Shropshire
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In 1809 Heber married Amelia, daughter of Dr See also: Shipley, dean of St See also: Asaph
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He was made prebendary of St Asaph in 1812, appointed See also: Bampton lecturer for 1815, preacher at Lincoln's See also: Inn in 1822, and bishop of See also: Calcutta in See also: January 1823
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Before sailing for See also: India he received the degree of D.D. from the university of Oxford
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In India Bishop Heber laboured indefatigably, not only for the See also: good of his own diocese, but for the spread of See also: Christianity throughout the See also: East
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He undertook numerous See also: tours in India, consecrating churches, founding See also: schools and discharging other Christian duties
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His devotion to his See also: work in a trying See also: climate told severely on his See also: health
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At See also: Trichinopoly he was seized with an apoplectic See also: fit when in his See also: bath, and died on the 3rd of April 1826
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statue of him, by Chantrey, was erected at Calcutta . Heber was a piousSee also: man of profound learning, See also: literary taste and See also: great See also: practical energy
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His fame rests mainly on his See also: hymns, which See also: rank among the best in the English language
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The following may be instanced: " See also: Lord of mercy and of might "; " Brightest and best of the sons of the See also: morning "; " By cool Siloam's shady rill "; " See also: God, that madest See also: earth and heaven "; " The Lord of might from See also: Sinai's brow "; " Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty "; " From See also: Greenland's icy mountains "; " The Lord will come, the earth shall quake ";
" The Son of God goes forth to war." Heber's hymns and other poems are distinguished by finish of See also: style, pathos and soaring aspiration; but they lack originality, and are rather rhetorical than poetical in the strict sense
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Among Heber's See also: works are: Palestine: a Poem, to which is added the Passage of the Red See also: Sea (18o9); Europe: Lines on the See also: Present War (1809) ; a See also: volume of poems in 1812; The See also: Personality and Office of the Christian Comforter asserted and explained (being the Bampton Lectures for 1815); The Whole Works of Bishop See also: Jeremy See also: Taylor, with a
See also: Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of his Writings (1822) ; Hymns written and adapted.to the Weekly See also: Church Service of the
See also: Year, principally by Bishop Heber (1827); A Journey through India (1828) ; Sermons preached in See also: England, and Sermons preached in India (1829) ; Sermons on the Lessons, the Gospel, or the See also: Epistle for every See also: Sunday in the Year (1837)
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The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber were collected in 1841
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See the Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. by his widow, Amelia Heber (1830), which also contains a number of Heber's See also: miscellaneous writings; The Last Days of Bishop Heber, by See also: Thomas
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See also: Smyth, The Character and Religious See also: Doctrine of Bishop Heber (1831), and Memorials of a Quiet Life, by See also: Augustus J
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See also: Hare (1874)
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