Reverend Hugh Reginald Haweis (April 3, 1838 – January 29, 1901) was an English

England

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 cleric and writer.

Biography

Reverend H.R. Haweis was born in Egham, Surrey in 1838, the son of the Rev. John Oliver
Willyams Haweis of Brighton

Brighton

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, Canon of Chichester

Chichester

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. He was educated privately in Sussex and at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, where he graduated BA in 1860. He travelled in Italy

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 and served under Garibaldi

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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 in 1860. On his return to England he was ordained and held various curacies in London, becoming in 1866 incumbent of St James's, Marylebone

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.
His unconventional methods of conducting the service, combined with his dwarfish figure and lively manner, soon attracted crowded congregations. He married Mary E. Joy

Mary E. Joy

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 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 in Boston, 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 Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica

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on bell-ringing. His best-known book was Music and Morals (1871), which went through sixteen editions before the end of the century, and was for a time from 1868 editor of Cassell's Magazine

Cassell's Magazine

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. He also wrote the five-volume Christ and Christianity, a popular church history (1886–1887), as well as Travel and Talk (1896) and similar chatty and entertaining books.

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