Hugh Reginald Haweis

On his return to England he was ordained and held various curacies in London, becoming in 1866 incumbent of St James's, Marylebone.

[2] His unconventional methods of conducting the service, combined with his dwarfish figure and lively manner, soon attracted crowded congregations.

He married Mary E. Joy in 1866, and both he and Mrs Haweis (d. 1898) contributed largely to periodical literature and travelled a good deal abroad.

His best-known book was Music and Morals (1871), which went through sixteen editions before the end of the century, and he was for a time from 1868 editor of Cassell's Magazine.

He also wrote the five-volume Christ and Christianity, a popular church history (1886–1887), as well as Travel and Talk (1896) and similar chatty and entertaining books.