Church Church of England Elected 1905 Term ended 1930 Role Clergy Education Eton College Predecessor Edward Talbot | Diocese Diocese of Rochester Installed July 1905 Name John Harmer Parents George Harmer Successor Linton Smith | |
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Other posts Bishop of Adelaide
1895–1905 Died March 9, 1944, Instow, United Kingdom Place of burial Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, United Kingdom | ||
John Reginald Harmer (11 August 1857 – 9 March 1944) was a long-serving Anglican bishop who served in two dioceses.
Harmer was born into a clerical family (his parents were the Revd George Harmer and Kate, nee Kitching) and educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. Ordained priest in 1884, he was a curate at Monkwearmouth before becoming Vice-Principal of the Clergy Training School in Cambridge.
From 1892, he was Dean of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before elevation to the colonial episcopate with his election as Bishop of Adelaide in March 1895. He was consecrated a bishop in Westminster Abbey and 23 May and was enthroned at St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide on 4 July 1895. In 1905, he was translated back to England when he was elected Bishop of Rochester. He was enthroned at Rochester Cathedral in July 1905 and served for a quarter of a century before his retirement in 1930.
Harmer died at Marine Cottage, Instow, and was buried at Rochester Cathedral. His portraits remain at his former official residences of Bishop's Court, Adelaide and Bishopscourt, Rochester.