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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Heber    
First Name(s)  Reginald    
Titles  Right Rev.    
Year of Birth  1783    
Year of Death  1826    
Entry  Bishop of Calcutta : born April 21, 1783 : son of Rev. Reginald Heber : educated at Whitchurch and privately : at Brasenose College, Oxford : wrote the Carmen Sasculare, 1800 : gained the English verse prize for his ""Palestine"" in 1803 : and the English Essay Prize in 1805 : Fellow of All Souls' College in 1805. After a tour of nearly two years in Europe, he was ordained, 1807 : held the living of Hodnet from that year : Prebendary of St. Asaph, 1812 : was appointed Bishop of Calcutta, 1822, which he accepted with much hesitation : completed Bishop's College, Calcutta : travelled continually, performing his episcopal duties, through the whole of India, and in Cevlon, as shown by his Journey through India, from Calcutta to Bombay, with Notes upon Ceylon, and a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces : he died in a swimming-bath at Trichinopoly on April 3, 1826, from the bursting of a blood-vessel. His hymns, 57 in all, were published in the Christian Observer from 1811 : his poetical works in 1812 : his Bampton Lectures, Life of Jeremy Taylor, and volumes of sermons were also published. A kneeling statue of Heber is in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta : other monuments were erected to his memory in India.     
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