Reverend John Clarke Haden
(1805-1869)
19 August 1862

Volume 9, page 82, sitting number 11,327. 

Born on 6 May 1805, John Clarke Haden was the son of surgeon Thomas Haden of Derby. He was educated at St Paul’s and at Corpus Christi, Cambridge (BA, 1828; MA, 1831). He was ordained a deacon in 1828 and a priest in 1829. He was the Rector of Hutton in Essex from 1839 to 1869. He was a Minor Canon and Precentor of Westminster Abbey from 1846 to 1869. He was also Priest-in-Ordinary to King William IV from 1834 to 1837 and to Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1869. 

On 20 January 1847 at Fleetwood in Lancashire he married Annie Ormerod, daughter of Richard Ormerod of Fleetwood. She died later that same year on 24 September at No. 4, Dean’s Yard (Daily News, 28 September 1847). 

On 14 August 1850 at Chalfont St Giles he married secondly Sarah, the ‘elder daughter of the late John Mair, Esq., of Nightingales, Bucks’ (Bucks Advertiser & Aylesbury News, 17 August 1850). 

Reverend Haden died at Nightingales on 29 October 1869, leaving an estate valued at £3000. 

‘The death is announced this morning of the Rev. John Clarke Haden, MA. He was appointed in 1834 to the post of priest in ordinary to King William IV, and continued in the same office during the reign of her present Majesty. In the same year he was appointed to a minor canonry in St Paul’s Cathedral, and while discharging his duties in that capacity was, during one of the week-day services, fired at by a person in the body of the church, but escaped unhurt. In 1839 he was nominated by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s to the rectory of Hutton, and in 1846 was appointed to a minor canonry, with the precentorship of Westminster Abbey, both of which, with his appointment at Court, he held up to the time of his death’ (The Globe, 3 November 1869).