John Haggard

Who was John Haggard?

John Haggard was an English ecclesiastical lawyer who was Chancellor of three dioceses..

Haggard was born at Bradfield, Hertfordshire, the third son of William Henry Haggard, of Bradenham Hall, Norfolk and his wife Frances Amyand, only daughter of the Rev. Thomas Amyand. He was educated at Westminster School. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, as a pensioner on 9 June 1807, took his LL.B. degree in 1813 and was elected a Fellow on 1 December 1815. He took his LL.D. in 1818, and on 3 November in the latter year was admitted a Fellow of the College of Doctors of Law, London. He held his fellowship at Trinity Hall until his marriage in 1820.

In 1836, Haggard was appointed chancellor of Lincoln by his college friend Dr. John Kaye, the bishop. He accompanied the bishop in the visitation of his diocese. Haggard was nominated chancellor of Winchester in June 1845, and two years afterwards commissary of Surrey in the same diocese. In 1847 he received the appointment of chancellor of Manchester from James Prince Lee, the first bishop of the diocese.

Haggard died at Brighton at the age of 62.

Haggard married Caroline Hodgson, daughter of Mark Hodgson of Bromley on 20 July 1820. She died 21 November 1884, aged 88. Their son Mark Haggard was a successful rower during his time at Oxford University but died of tuberculosis in 1854.