Henry John Chitty Harper (c. 1804 – 28 December 1893) was an Anglicanbishop in the second half of the 19th century.[1]
Life
Henry John Chitty Harper was born in c. 1804 in Gosport, Hampshire, England,[2] to Tristram Harper and Mary Jellicoe Harper.[3] Tristram Harper (father of Henry John Chitty Harper) was the great-grandson of John Strachey. Harper was baptised on 9 January 1804,[4] educated at The Queen's College, Oxford and ordained in 1832.[5] He was Chaplain of Eton College until December 1840 then Vicar of St Mary's, Stratfield Mortimer. In 1856 he was appointed to the episcopate as Bishop of Christchurch. Harper and his family arrived on 23 December 1856 in Lyttelton on the Egmont.[5] At the 4th General Synod, 14 October 1868, he was elected[6] and upon receiving in July 1869 notice of Selwyn's resignation,[7] he became Primate of New Zealand; he resigned the Primacy on 5 September 1889[8] and his See on 31 March 1890, in ill-health.[9][10] He died on 28 December 1893[11] and is buried at Barbadoes Street Cemetery.[12]
^Proceedings of the Fifth General Synod of the Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland (p. 12, online at the Kinder Library; see also the relevant statute)
^The dictionary of New Zealand biography: volume two, 1870–1900. Claudia Orange (ed.). Wellington, Bridget Williams Books, 1993.
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