The Ven. Henry William Harper, MA (1833 – 20 January 1922) was an eminent New Zealand Anglican priest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
He was the eldest son of Henry Harper, the Primate of New Zealand. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford and ordained in 1858. After a curacy at Waimakariri he was Vicar of Hokitika then Timaru. He was Archdeacon of Timaru from 1875 to 1911.
He died on 20 January 1922.
References
- 'Multiple News Items' The Standard (London, England), Monday, October 12, 1863; pg. 3; Issue 12221
- NZETC
- Project Canterbury
- WJO
- Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Harper, Henry William" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- Crockford's Clerical Directory 1908 p82: London, Herbert Cox, 1908
- ‘HARPER, Ven. Henry William’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 1 Nov 2014
- St Mary's (Anglican) Parish Church, Timaru, N.Z.
- The Venerable H. W. Harper. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jan 25, 1922; pg. 12; Issue 42938.
External links
- Works by Henry Harper at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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