Born: Jan­u­a­ry 18, 1793, High Wy­combe, Buck­ing­ham­shire, Eng­land.

Died: Ap­ril 19, 1870, Leam­ing­ton, War­wick­shire, Eng­land.

Buried: Ast­ley, Wor­ces­ter­shire, Eng­land.

The epitaph on Havergal’s white marble tomb reads:

The Rev. William Henry Havergal, M.S.,
Vi­car of Shareshill and Hon. Canon of Worcester Ca­thed­ral.
Died at Leam­ing­ton, 19th Ap­ril 1870, aged 77.
Cur­ate 7, and Rec­tor 13 years, of this par­ish, 1822 to 1843.
“A faith­ful min­is­ter in the Lord” (Eph. Vi. 21).

Memorial tab­lets to him were placed in Wor­ces­ter Ca­thed­ral, St. Ni­cho­las and Shares­hill churche­s.

Havergal was ed­u­cat­ed at Mer­chant Tay­lors School St. Ed­mund’s Hall, Ox­ford (BA 1815, MA 1819). He was or­dained a dea­con in 1816, and priest in 1817. He held three rec­to­rships: Ast­ley, Wor­ces­ter­shire (1829); St. Ni­cho­las, Wor­ces­ter (1842); and Shares­hill, near Wol­ver­hamp­tom (1860). Hymn­ist Franc­es Ha­ver­gal was his daug­hter.

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All Hail, Thou Re­sur­rect­ion!
  2. Blessed Je­sus, Lord and Bro­ther
  3. Brighter Than Me­ri­di­an Splen­dor
  4. Christ­ians, Awake to Joy and Praise
  5. Come, Shep­herds, Come, ’Tis Just a Year
  6. Forever and For­ev­er, Lord
  7. Hallelujah, Lord, Our Voic­es
  8. Heralds of the Lord of Glo­ry
  9. Hosanna, Raise the Peal­ing Hymn
  10. How Vast the Field of Souls
  11. In Doubt and Dread Dis­may
  12. Lord, if Judg­ments Now Are Waking
  13. Jerusalem the Gold­en, the Home of Saints Shall Be
  14. My Times Are in Thy Hand
  15. No Dawn of Ho­ly Light
  16. Our Faith­ful God Hath Sent Us
  17. Remem­ber, Lord, Thy Word of Old Dis­played
  18. Shout, O Earth! from Si­lence Wak­ing
  19. So Hap­py All the Day
  20. Soon the Trum­pet of Sal­va­tion
  21. To Praise Our Shep­herd’s Care
  22. Widely Midst the Slum­ber­ing Na­tions
  23. Worcester Christ­mas Car­ol, The

Music

  1. Bavaria
  2. Dusseldorf
  3. Eden
  4. Evan
  5. Gennesaret
  6. Patmos
  7. Ratisbon
  8. St. John (Parish)
  9. Stobel
  10. Swabia
  11. Zoan