Walsham How

William Walsham How ( born December 13, 1823 in Shrewsbury, † August 10 1897 in Leenaun, Ireland) was a clergyman of the Church of England, from 1879 Suffragan Bishop in London and from 1889 until his death, Bishop of Wakefield. He also worked as a hymn writer.

Life

Walsham How was the son of a lawyer. He studied at Wadham College, Oxford and at University College, Durham. In 1846 he became a deacon in 1847 ordained a priest. In 1849 he married Frances Anne Douglas, daughter of a clergyman from Durham. The marriage produced five sons and one daughter were born. How was used in several places as a church pastor before he rector in Whittington ( Shropshire ) was for 28 years. There he devoted himself next to the pastoral care of the education and library work. His own writings, including his songs, predominantly emerged in this period. He was also an accomplished angler and botanist.

In 1879, he was Regional Bishop of the Diocese of London with the title Bishop of Bedford. His area of ​​responsibility was the East End, where he campaigned with prudence and vigor, supported by his wife († 1887), for the poor and the proletariat. When in 1888 the diocese of Wakefield was built in the north of England, how was its first bishop. He died in 1897 while vacationing in Ireland and was buried in Whittington. In the cathedral of Wakefield, a marble monument commemorates him.

Hows Allerheiligenlied For All the Saints is the template of the song for all the holy in the glory ( praise of God 548).