Quotes:Heber, Reginald

Zirkoff, Boris

Heber, Reginald. English bishop and hymn writer, b. at Malpas, Cheshire, April 21, 1783; d. at Trichinopoly, April 3, 1826. Studied 511 at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won prizes for several poems. Admitted to holy orders, 1807. Became prebendary of St. Asaph, 1812, preacher at Lincoln’s Inn, 1822, and bishop at Calcutta, Jan., 1823. Apart from many well-known hymns, Bishop Heber wrote a fascinating Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, London, 1828.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, pp. 510-511