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HOW, WILLIAM WALSHAM (1823–1897)

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WILLIAM WALSHAM (1823–1897) , See also:English divine, son of a See also:Shrewsbury See also:solicitor, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:December 1823, and was educated at Shrewsbury school and Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford. He was ordained in 1846, and for upwards of See also:thirty years was actively engaged in See also:parish See also:work at See also:Whittington in See also:Shropshire and See also:Oswestry (rural See also:dean, r86o). He refused preferment on several occasions, but his See also:energy and success made him well known, and in 1879 he became a See also:suffragan See also:bishop in See also:London, under the See also:title of bishop of See also:Bedford, his See also:province being the See also:East End. There he became the inspiring See also:influence of a revival of See also:church work. He founded the East London Church Fund, and enlisted a large See also:band of enthusiastic helpers, his popularity among all classes being immense. He was particularly fond of See also:children, and was commonly called " the children's bishop." In 1888 he was made bishop of See also:Wakefield, and in the See also:north of See also:England he continued to do valuable work. His sermons were straightforward, See also:earnest and attractive; and besides See also:publishing several volumes of these, he wrote a See also:good See also:deal of See also:verse, including such well-known See also:hymns as " Who is this so weak and helpless," " See also:Lord, Thy children See also:guide and keep." In 1863–1868 he brought out a Commentary on the Four Gospels; and he also wrote a See also:Manual for the See also:Holy Communion. In the See also:movement for infusing new spiritual See also:life into the church services, especially among the poor, How was a See also:great force. He died on the See also:roth of See also:August 1897. He was much helped in his earlier work by his wife. Frances A. See also:Douglas (d.

1887). See his Life by his son, F. D. How (1898).

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