Family of Heber-birth of Reginald Heber-Anecdotes-Early education-School-" Prophecy of Ishmael"-Correspondence` at Neasdon-Letter on Church stipends and government— Entrance at College-" Carmen Seculare"-All Souls' mallard feast-Correspondence at Oxford-Imitation of a poem by Robert Duke of Normandy-Lines on alchemy-Recitation of "Palestine"-Anecdote-" Honour its own reward"-Death of Mr. Heber-Election to All Souls' College-" Sense of Honour." 1728-1804.
THE family of Heber, or Hayber, as the word appears from some original papers in Bolton Abbey to have been formerly written, and is still vulgarly pronounced, is of considerable antiquity in the county of York, and is supposed to derive its name from a hill in Craven, called Hayber or Haybergh.* The estate of Marton, originally purchased from its ancient owners of that name, by Thomas Heber, was, for many generations, the residence of his descendants, and is still in the possession of Richard Heber, Esq.
Reginald Heber, second son of Thomas Heber and Elizabeth Atherton, his wife, was born in the year 1728. On his elder
Whitaker's History of Craven. In Elizabeth's reign, an official certificate was granted from the Herald's College, to Reginald Heber of Marton, of the arms acknowledged to have been previously borne by the family, viz. "party per fess B and G, a lion rampant, Or; in the dexter chief point a ciquefoil A. Crest, out of a ducal coronet, Or, a woman's head and shoulders proper, in profile, crined Or." VOL. I.-1.