Author: Harvey, Richard
Biography:
HARVEY, Richard (1798-1889: findmypast.com)
He was born at Wingham, Kent, and baptised on 15 Mar. 1798, the son of Elizabeth (Musgrave) and Richard Harvey, who had married on 31 Jan. 1797. His father (1767-1836) was Vicar of St. Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent. Harvey was educated at Eton College, where he fagged for P. B. Shelley (q.v.), then at St. Catharine’s, Cambridge (matric. 1814, BA 1818, MA 1821), and became a clergyman like his father. He was Rector of St. Mary, Hornsey, from 1829 to 1880, Prebendary of St. Paul’s 1843-58, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria 1847-89, Canon of Gloucester Cathedral 1858-89, and Chaplain to the Archbishop of York 1862-74. On 28 Dec. 1829 he and Elizabeth Hankey of Dalston, Middlesex, were married at St. John’s, Hackney, by the Bishop of London. They had at least two children, a son and a daughter. Harvey published two editions of his hymns for young people (1834 and 1837), aiming to fill a perceived gap between hymns for little children and for adults. Apart from that, only a few sermons appeared; his life in the church was not a literary one. When he died at home at College Green, Gloucester, on 27 June 1889, the papers announced the “Death of an Aged Clergyman,” the oldest dignitary of the Church of England. His wife predeceased him by twelve hours and they were buried together in the Cathedral. (findmypast.com 21 Feb. 2022; ACAD, CCEd 21 Feb. 2022; Morning Post 29 Dec. 1829; Aberdeen Evening Express 27 June 1889)
Other Names:
- R. H.