Haweis, Thomas ♂

Education

M.D. 22.3.1788 on testimonials signed by John Nankwell M.D. and W. Bromfield, surgeon to the Queen’s household.

Birth/childhood

Born 1.1.1733 son of Thomas Haweis, solicitor, Redruth, Cornwall and Bridgett [ ]. [Lawyer]

Career

Studied Oxford University - Matriculated 1755.

Ordained 1757 curate Mary Magdalen, Oxford. Rector, Aldwinkle 1764-11.2.1820 (died at Bath). LL.B. Cambridge 1772. [Minister]

Voluminous writer. Father of the Missionary Society and the mission to the islands of the Pacific Ocean originated with him.

Publications

Evangelical principles and practice: being fourteen sermons, preached in the parish church of St Mary Magdalen in Oxford. (Newburyport: Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, 1803)

Death

[Died 11.2.1820 at Bath.]

Sources

• DNB
• Public Characters 1798/99(portrait)
• Dict. Evang. Biog.
• MSS in Mitchell Library, Sydney