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'''Henry Frederick Rivers'''
{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Henry Frederick
| name = Rivers
| honorific_prefix = Revd.
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Rivers,_Henry_Frederick.jpg
| birth_date = 1830
| death_date = 1911
| address = Sydney Villa, Luton, Chatham
| occupation = church
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL = 1863.06.09
| elected_AI =
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ASL local secretary 1863.06.09<br />ASL ordinary fellow 1866.12.18<br />ASL Foundation Fellow
| left = 1869.08.01 last listed
| clubs =
| societies =
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
brother in law of James Hunt, and father of W.H.R. Rivers
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Rivers was born in 1864 at Constitution Hill, Chatham, Kent, son of Elizabeth Hunt (16 October 1834 – 13 November 1897) and Henry Frederick Rivers (7 January 1830 – 9 December 1911).<br />Henry Rivers followed many family traditions in being educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entering the church.[1] Having earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1857, he was ordained as a Church of England priest in 1858,[1] a career that would span almost 50 years until, in 1904, he was forced to tender his resignation due to "infirmities of sight and memory".[3]<br />In 1863, having obtained a curacy at Chatham in addition to a chaplain's post, Henry Rivers was in a position to marry Elizabeth Hunt who was living with her brother James in Hastings, not far from Chatham ...Hunt's speech therapy practise was passed onto Hunt's brother-in-law, Henry Rivers, who had been working with him for some time.[7] With the practise came many of Hunt's established patients, most notably The Reverend Charles L. Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) who had been a regular visitor to Ore House<br /><br />Born to Lieutenant William Rivers, R.N., and his wife, stationed at Deptford,[1] Henry Frederick Rivers followed many family traditions in being educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and entering the church.[1] Having earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1857, he was ordained as a Church of England priest in 1858,[1] and had a career that would span almost 50 years. In 1904, he was forced to tender his resignation due to "infirmities of sight and memory".[3]<br />In 1863, having obtained a curacy at Chatham in addition to a chaplaincy of the Medway Union, Henry Rivers was sufficiently established to marry Elizabeth Hunt, who was living with her brother James in Hastings, not far from Chatham.[1] He was later appointed to curacies in Kent at St Mary's, Chatham (1863-9), Tudeley (1877-80) and Offham (1880-9), and subsequently as Vicar of St Faith's, Maidstone from 1889-1904.
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