William Walsham How

HOW, William Walsham. b. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, 13 December 1823; d. Leenane, Ireland, 10 August 1897. He was the son of a solicitor, educated at Shrewsbury School and Wadham College, Oxford (BA 1845, MA 1847). He trained for the priesthood at the University of Durham, and took Holy Orders (deacon 1846, priest 1847), serving at Kidderminster, Worcestershire (1846); Shrewsbury, Shropshire (1848-51); Whittington (1851-53); as rural dean of Oswestry (1853-79); as Suffragan to the Bishop of London (under the title of Bishop of Bedford) in East London (1879-88); and as the first Bishop of Wakefield (1888-97). He died suddenly when on holiday in Ireland. How’s first hymn dates from before he was...