Reverend Christopher Haggard
(1829-1917)
30 January 1863

Volume 10, page 51, sitting number 12,574.

Born in Manchester in 1829, Christopher Haggard was the fifth son of John Haggard (LLD, Doctors' Commons). Educated at Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1851, MA 1854), in 1862 he became the Vicar of Holy Trinity in Barnstable, Devon.

He married firstly on 14 June 1859 at Street near Glastonbury, Mary Helen Townsend, only daughter of Reverend Richard Lateward Townsend, Vicar of All Saints, Wandsworth.

In 1872 he left Barnstable on his appointment to the Rectory of Filleigh in North Devon.

His first wife died at Clifton on 11 January 1875, aged 41. She was buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity in Barnstable, where her husband had previously been the vicar.

At Chobham in Surrey on 24 May 1877 Reverend Haggard married, secondly, Emily Sarah Brown, the second daughter of the late Edward Brown of East Hill, Wandsworth.

He died on 20 November 1917 at Aldersfield, West End, Chobham. He left effects valued at £7278.