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...Christ Church, Oxford. Among the many positions that he has held, have been the following: Vicar of Leeds, 1889-95; Hon. Canon of Ripon; Chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen, 1894. From 1895 to 1905 he was Bishop of Rochester and from 1905 to 1911 he was Bishop of Southwark. In 1911 he was made Bishop of Winchester...
...record of the date of John Harvard's birth has ever been discovered by historians, but the baptismal records of St. Saviour's Church, Southwark, bear the following entry: "1607 November 29 John Harvye S. of Robt. a Butcher." It has generally been assumed that he was not baptized on the day of his birth, but according to the custom of the church in this time, three days after. This custom may or may not have been followed. However, at the time of the 300th anniversary of the birth of John Harvard in 1907, the celebration was arranged for November...
...Vatican. A handsome pedestal of Italian marble completes the gift, which came from E. W. Longfellow '65, a nephew of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '59. The arch at the entrance of Appleton Chapel has been adorned with a small fragment of an archway from St. Saviour's Church in Southwark, England, in which John Harvard was baptized...
...researches of a Harvard man, Mr. Henry F. Waters '55, more has been found about John Harvard than about almost any other man of colonial times. We know that he and all his kindred were tradesmen--butchers, cloth makers, coopers, goldsmiths--and that for several generations they lived in Southwark, one of the humblest quarters of London...
...brought up his children side by side with the Shakespeare children of Stratford-on-Avon, where both families lived. In one of Thomas Rogers' numerous trips to London, he prob- ably met Robert Harvard, the father of John Harvard, also a marketman. In 1605 Robert Harvard, of Southwark, married Katherine Rogers, and in November, 1607, occurred John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have been known to William Shakespeare. When John Harvard was 18, he lost his father and two brothers in the plague, and at the age of twenty, after his mother's third marriage, he went...