Walter Harte (clergyman)

Reverend Canon Walter Harte (1650 – 1735) was a clergyman and Prebendary of Bath and Wells and was a principal pillar of the Nonjuring schism cause.[1]

Reverend Canon
William Harte
Reverend Canon William Harte
Born28 October 1650
Died2 February 1735
Kintbury, Berkshire

Education

Son of Walter Harte, he was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School) (1662–1667). His later education was as a scholar at Pembroke College, Oxford where he earned a B.A (1671) and M.A and fellow (1674).[2]

Career

In 1676 he was incorporated into Cambridge and ordained by Dr Fell. He became Prebendary of Bath and Wells from 1677–1691 and the vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton and Canon of Bristol from 1684–1691.[2]

He refused to take the Nonjuring schism oaths after the Glorious Revolution, which resulted in him being deprived of all of his preferments. Unusually his three successors all agreed that he receive the benefits of his prebend until death and he was regarded as a principal pillar of the nonjuring cause.[3]

He was a Tesdale Usher at Abingdon School from 1692-1703 and his son Walter Harte was born in 1709.[2] He retired to Kintbury, where he died in 1735.[3]

See also

References
  1. Preston, Arthur Edwin (1929). St.Nicholas Abingdon and Other Papers, pre isbn. Oxford University Press.
  2. Richardson, William H (1905). List of Some Distinguished Persons Educated at Abingdon School 1563-1855. Hughes Market Place. p. 7.
  3. Noble, Reverend Mark (1806). A Biographical History of England. Darton and Harvey. p. 147.
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