390 Bradford-on-Avon. [Old Families & Worthies. 
In 1833 he became a Canon of Bristol and, no long time after- 
wards, succeeded Dr. Blomberg in the Vicarage of this Parish. 
For seventeen years he held this living, and in 1850, on the de- 
cease of Dean Lamb, left it for Olveston, near Bristol, where he 
died November 1854. He had married, in 1823, Johnanna Maria, 
daughter of the Rev. John Auber, Rector of Blaisdon in Glouces- 
tershire. 
During the time he held the Incumbency of Bradford-on-Avon, a 
charge then embracing the care of no less than seven Churches, 
Mr. Harvey accomplished a great work for the parish at large,—a 
work more lasting in its benefits than had before been completed 
since the Reformation. The new Church of Christ Church built and 
endowed,—those at Winsley and Atworth rebuilt and enlarged,— 
that at Holt enlarged and rendered more commodious,—the one at 
Westwood made good by rebuilding the chancel,—that of Limpley 
Stoke restored,—these were good works in which he always took 
some, generally the leading part. Add to these, fowr new school- 
houses, two of them double,—(and these exclusive of those at Christ 
Church the noble gift of Captain Palairet),—the Vicarage house 
rebuilt, and a new parsonage house provided for the District 
Church,—all more or less the results of his exertions, and you have 
ample grounds for believing that his name will be long remembered 
with affection in Bradford-on-Avon. He must always hold a pro- 
minent place among our ‘ Worthies.’ Take him all in all, and 
there are few to whom the words of Chaucer, with which we may 
not unfitly conclude this paper, are more strictly applicable, or of 
whose character they are more truly descriptive. 
“To drawen folk to heven with fairénesse, 
By good ensample, was his besinesse : 
But it were any persone obstinat, 
What so he were of highe or low estat, 
Him wolde he snibben sharply for the nones. 
A better preest I trowe that nowher non is: 
He waited after no pompe, ne reverence, 
Ne maked him no spicéd conscience. 
But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, 
He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.””! 
1 Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, 1. 52,—530. 
