Rev Dr Henry William Coulthurst

Epitaph

Christ is Alpha and Omega     Henry William Coulthurst DD Descended from an ancient and respectable family in Craven formerly scholar of St John's College Cambridge afterwards fellow of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge. As tutor in his college as moderator in the public schools he acquired among his contemporaries no common celebrity. For 27 years, he was a most vigilant Vicar of this Church. His discourses assiduously delivered not from this pulpit only, but in the several chapels of this extensive parish, were simple and persuasive. As a magistrate, he was the dispenser of equity and justice, without superciliousness of prepossession. In social intercourse, pleasant, facetious, elegant, yet ever with a view to edification. As a servant to Christ, in words, in actions, in heart, devoted to his Lord. Though temperate in diet, abstinent in wine, he was removed by a stroke of apoplexy, sudden indeed, but to a soul holy, tranquil and heaven-aspiring, not untimely, on the 11th day of December, AD 1817, in the 65th year of his age. To Him, revered in life, in death lamented, his Halifax parishioners raised by public subscription This Memorial

Henry William Coulthurst, D.D., Vicar of Halifax died December 11th 1817, Æ. 64     Sarah, his wife, died November 15th 1825, Æ. 70