Reginald Heber
English clergyman, Lord Bishop of Calcutta · Religious Figures · Lived 1783 to 1826 · aged 42
Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42. The son of a rich landowner and cleric, Heber gained fame at the University of Oxford as a poet.
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Hodnet in Shropshire, where Heber spent his early years
Brasenose College, Oxford (modern photograph)
A depiction of the Kremlin in Moscow
St Luke's Church, Hodnet, Shropshire, where Heber served as rector from 1807 to 1823
Heber's controversial hymn "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" as published in a school hymnal in 1899
St John's, Calcutta, was the cathedral church for the Calcutta see at the time of Heber's episcopate.About this person
After graduation he made an extended tour of Scandinavia, Russia and Central Europe. Ordained in 1807, he took over his father's old parish, Hodnet, Shropshire. He also wrote hymns and general literature, including a study of the works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor.
