Biography of Reginald Heber, Lord Bishop of Calcutta: Abridged for the Use of Young Persons. Boston: Leonard C. Bowles, 1831. [11005]
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Reginald Heber (1783-1826), b. Malpas, UK; d. Tiruchirappalli, India. He was a poet, hymn-writer, and Anglican clergyman, appointed in 1823 the second Bishop of Calcutta. Although born into privilege, he did not shy away from the duties of his appointment, and spent almost an entire year visiting every station under his care.
"He visited nearly every station of importance in the upper provinces of Bengal and north of Bombay, and after an absence from Calcutta of about eleven months, during which he had seldom slept out of his cabin or tent, he arrived at Bombay...The candor, modesty, and simplicity of bishop Heber's manners, his unwearied earnestness, and his mild and steady zeal, combined with his talents and attainments, had inspired veneration and respect not only among the European, but the native population of India...In theology he was an Arminian. His whole life, after his elevation to the episcopate, was devoted to its great duties. He had a profound faith in the fundamental doctrines of the Gospel, and their adaptation to the heathen." - M'Clintock & Strong, Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1871).
