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REGINALD HEBER (1783-1826)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 167 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . His See also:father, who belonged to an old See also:Yorkshire See also:family, held a moiety of the living of Malpas . Reginald See also:Heber See also: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 See also:essay on The Sense of See also:Honour . 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 See also:long tour in See also:Europe . He was admitted to See also:holy orders in 1807, and was then presented to the family living of Hodnet in See also:Shropshire . In 1809 Heber married Amelia, daughter of Dr See also:Shipley, See also:dean of St See also:Asaph . He was made See also:prebendary of St Asaph in 1812, appointed See also:Bampton lecturer for 1815, preacher at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1822, and bishop of See also:Calcutta in See also:January 1823 . Before sailing for See also:India he received the degree of D.D. from the university of Oxford . In India Bishop Heber laboured indefatigably, not only for the See also:good of his own See also:diocese, but for the spread of See also:Christianity throughout the See also:East . He undertook numerous See also:tours in India, consecrating churches, See also:founding See also:schools and discharging other See also:Christian duties . His devotion to his See also:work in a trying See also:climate told severely on his See also:health . 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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Chantrey, was erected at Calcutta . Heber was a pious See also:man of profound learning, See also:literary See also:taste and See also:great See also:practical See also:energy . His fame rests mainly on his See also:hymns, which See also:rank among the best in the English See also:language . The following may be instanced: " See also:Lord of See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 . 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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:Journey through India (1828) ; Sermons preached in See also:England, and Sermons preached in India (1829) ; Sermons on the Lessons, the See also:Gospel, or the See also:Epistle for every See also:Sunday in the Year (1837) . The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber were collected in 1841 . 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 See also:Robinson, A.M., See also:archdeacon of See also:Madras (1830); T . S . See also:Smyth, The See also:Character and Religious See also:Doctrine of Bishop Heber (1831), and Memorials of a Quiet Life, by See also:Augustus J . C . See also:Hare (1874) .

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