Walter Harte
English clergyman
About Walter Harte
Lived 1650 – 1735 (aged 84). Walter Harte was a British.
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.
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).
Career In 1676 he was incorporated into Cambridge and ordained by Dr Fell. He became Prebendary of Bath and Wells from 1677 to 1691 and the vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Taunton and Canon of Bristol from 1684 to 1691.
He was a Tesdale Usher at Abingdon School from 1692 to 1703 and his son Walter Harte was born in 1709. He retired to Kintbury, where he died in 1735.
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Who was Walter Harte?
English clergyman
When was Walter Harte born?
Walter Harte was born on 28 October 1650.
When did Walter Harte die?
Walter Harte died on 2 February 1735 in Kintbury.
What nationality was Walter Harte?
Walter Harte was British.
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