Harker, George (1808-1826)

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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 4, 1811. Of Cumberland. P.C. of St John's, Chatham, 1820-49. V. of St Nicholas, Rochester, 1826-53. Lived latterly at 3, Stockwell Crescent, Clapham Road, London. Died May 20, 1862, aged 77, in London. (Foster, Index Eccles.; G. Mag., 1862, I. 790.)


Fielding (1910) gives MI from St Nicholas Rochester:
'In memory of the Revd George Harker, who died at Stockwell Crescent Clapham Common, May 20th 1862, aged 71, and whose remains are interred in the cemetery of this parish. He was ordained to the curacy of Sebergham, Cumberland in the year 1803. He afterward served the united curacies of Egerton and Boughton, Kent, and subsequently for five years that of the parish of St John, Chatham; in the year 1819 he was elected chaplain of this county's prison at Maidstone, which office he resigned in 1821, when appointed minister of the newly erected church of St John, Chatham, where he laboured most successfully till declining health compelled him to relinquish. He also held the vicarage of this parish from 1826-1853 with peculiar faithfulness, energy and affection. He preached Christ in his person, work and office, and was instrumental in turning many to righteousness who will be his crown of rejoicing in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming. Ye are complete in him Col II 10. In affectionate remembrance, this tablet was erected by some of his attached friends.'

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