Henry Ware (Unitarian)

This article is about the American Unitarian preacher. For his son, and for the bishop of Chichester, seeHenry Ware (disambiguation).

Henry Ware
Portrait byCharles Osgood,1835
Born	April 1, 1764 Sherborn,Massachusetts Bay
Died	July 12, 1845 (aged 81) Cambridge, Massachusetts
Alma mater	Harvard College
Occupation(s)	Preacher, theologian
Relatives	Henry Ware Jr.(son),Mary Lee Ware(granddaughter)

Henry Ware(April 1, 1764 – July 12, 1845) was apreacherandtheologianinfluential in the formation ofUnitarianismand theAmerican Unitarian Associationin theUnited States.Born inSherborn, Massachusetts(ina housethat survived into the 20th century), Ware was educated atHarvard College,earning his A.B. in 1785. He was from 1787 to 1805 the minister of the First Parish inHingham, Massachusetts.He was elected a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1804.In 1805 he was elected to theHollis Chairat Harvard, precipitating a controversy between Unitarians and more conservativeCalvinists.He took part in the formation of theHarvard Divinity Schooland the establishment of Unitarianism there in the following decades, publishing his debates with eminent Calvinists in the 1820s. His son,Henry Ware Jr.,followed his father as a Harvard Divinity professor and Unitarian theologian. He is also the grandfather ofMary Lee Warethrough one of his other sons, Dr.Charles Eliot Ware- Mary and her mother (his daughter-in-law) being the patron sponsors of Harvard's famedGlass Flowersexhibit.

Henry Ware Sr. was married three times. From his first marriage there were seven daughters and three sons. From his third marriage there were five sons and four daughters.

External links

• Ware biographyfromThe Unitarians and the Universalistsby David Robinson