Excerpt from Three All-Saints' Summers, and Other Teachings of Nature to a Busy Man
There can be few of your old pupils who would hesitate to acknowledge that to your training at school they mainly owe whatever they have been able to accomplish in after life. It is in grateful memory of that training, but with a thorough consciousness of the unworthi.
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Known as Walsham How, he was the son of a Shrewsbury solicitor, How was educated at Shrewsbury School, Wadham College, Oxford and University College, Durham. He was ordained in 1846, and after a curacy at Kidderminster, began more than thirty years actively engaged in parish work in Shropshire, as curate at the Abbey Church in Shrewsbury in 1848. In 1851 he became Rector of Whittington and was at one point Rural Dean of Oswestry in 1860, then Suffragan Bishop of Bedford and in turn Bishop of Wakefield.