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==Career== ==Career==


Harvie was a watchmaker by trade and decided to devote his life to the ministry of the Unitarian Church.<ref name="Western Morning News">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000329%2F19050331&page=4|url-access=subscription|title=Death of Rev. A. Harvie|newspaper=Western Morning News |date=March 31, 1905|page=4|via=]}}</ref> He became minister of Christ Unitarian Church, ] in 1892 and was instrumental in getting the church renovated.<ref name="Western Morning News"/> He married Katherine Maud in 1894.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000331%2F18940913&page=5 |url-access=subscription|title=Marriages|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Cornishman|date=September 13, 1894|page=5|via=]}}</ref> He was minister at the Unitarian Church, ] from 1897 to 1901.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001168%2F19301113&page=5 |url-access=subscription|title=Memorial Reredos Dedication|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Shields Daily News |date=November 13, 1930|page=5|via=]}}</ref> He was minister in ] where he succeeded in getting an iron church built.<ref name="Western Morning News"/> Harvie was a watchmaker by trade and decided to devote his life to the ministry of the Unitarian Church.<ref name="Western Morning News">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000329%2F19050331&page=4|url-access=subscription|title=Death of Rev. A. Harvie|newspaper=Western Morning News |date=March 31, 1905|page=4|via=]}}</ref> He became minister of Christ Unitarian Church, ] in 1892 and was instrumental in getting the church renovated.<ref name="Western Morning News"/> He married Katherine Maud in 1894.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000331%2F18940913&page=5 |title=Marriages|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Cornishman|date=September 13, 1894|page=5|via=]}}</ref> He was minister at the Unitarian Church, ] from 1897 to 1901.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001168%2F19301113&page=5 |title=Memorial Reredos Dedication|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Shields Daily News |date=November 13, 1930|page=5|via=]}}</ref> He was minister in ] where he succeeded in getting an iron church built.<ref name="Western Morning News"/>


In 1903, he moved to Northampton and was minister of Kettering Road Free Church.<ref name="Western Morning News"/><ref name="The Northampton Mercury">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F19050331&page=6 |url-access=subscription|title=Death of the Rev. A. Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Northampton Mercury|date=March 31, 1905|page=6|via=]}}</ref> Harvie and his wife Katherine founded the Friendly Help Society in Northampton.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F19100318&page=8 |url-access=subscription|title=Mrs Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Northampton Mercury |date=March 18, 1910|page=7|via=]}}</ref> Harvie was fond of Northampton and commented that "if this town is not the City of God, then there is no town which answers to the description. If we cannot say of this place, God is in the midst of her, then the earth has become a tomb and we are mouldering to decay".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002127%2F19050329&page=2 |url-access=subscription|title=The Rev. Arthur Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Northampton Daily Reporter |date=March 29, 1905|page=2|via=]}}</ref> In 1903, he moved to Northampton and was minister of Kettering Road Free Church.<ref name="Western Morning News"/><ref name="The Northampton Mercury">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F19050331&page=6 |title=Death of the Rev. A. Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Northampton Mercury|date=March 31, 1905|page=6|via=]}}</ref> Harvie and his wife Katherine founded the Friendly Help Society in Northampton.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F19100318&page=8 |title=Mrs Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Northampton Mercury |date=March 18, 1910|page=7|via=]}}</ref> Harvie was fond of Northampton and commented that "if this town is not the City of God, then there is no town which answers to the description. If we cannot say of this place, God is in the midst of her, then the earth has become a tomb and we are mouldering to decay".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002127%2F19050329&page=2 |title=The Rev. Arthur Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Northampton Daily Reporter |date=March 29, 1905|page=2|via=]}}</ref>


Harvie was an anti-vivisectionist and member of the ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000264%2F18990705&page=3 |url-access=subscription|title=The Vivisection Question: Meeting in Bristol|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Western Daily Press |date=July 5, 1899|page=3|via=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000500%2F19000330&page=6 |url-access=subscription|title=Vivisection Condemned: Meeting in York|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Yorkshire Herald|date=March 30, 1900|page=6|via=]}}</ref> In 1899, he was a speaker at a meeting of the Union for Abolition of Vivisection at Sheffield Temperance Hall. His address was on the "immoral and unscientific method" of vivisection.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000250%2F18991208&page=8 |url-access=subscription|title=Proposed Abolition of Vivisection|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=December 8, 1899|page=8|via=]}}</ref> He argued that no human had the right to torture any living animal, or to give it such intense pain that its life was not Harvie was an anti-vivisectionist and member of the ].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000264%2F18990705&page=3 |title=The Vivisection Question: Meeting in Bristol|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Western Daily Press |date=July 5, 1899|page=3|via=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000500%2F19000330&page=6 |title=Vivisection Condemned: Meeting in York|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Yorkshire Herald|date=March 30, 1900|page=6|via=]}}</ref> In 1899, he was a speaker at a meeting of the Union for Abolition of Vivisection at Sheffield Temperance Hall. His address was on the "immoral and unscientific method" of vivisection.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000250%2F18991208&page=8 |title=Proposed Abolition of Vivisection|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Sheffield Daily Telegraph |date=December 8, 1899|page=8|via=]}}</ref> He argued that no human had the right to torture any living animal, or to give it such intense pain that its life was not
worth living.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000289%2F18990629&page=4 |url-access=subscription|title=Abolition of Vivisection|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Sunderland Daily Echo|date=June 29, 1889|page=4|via=]}}</ref> He was a member of the ] and joined its executive committee in 1900.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F19050505&page=2 |url-access=subscription|title=Rev. Arthur Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Northampton Mercury |date=May 5, 1905|page=2|via=]}}</ref><ref name="Gregory 2002">{{Cite book |last=Gregory |first=James Richard Thomas Elliott |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/467032/2/886115_v.2.pdf |title=The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections |publisher=University of Southampton |year=2002 |volume=2 |page=54 |language=en |chapter=Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era}}</ref> worth living.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000289%2F18990629&page=4 |title=Abolition of Vivisection|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Sunderland Daily Echo|date=June 29, 1889|page=4|via=]}}</ref> He was a member of the ] and joined its executive committee in 1900.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000317%2F19050505&page=2 |title=Rev. Arthur Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Northampton Mercury |date=May 5, 1905|page=2|via=]}}</ref><ref name="Gregory 2002">{{Cite book |last=Gregory |first=James Richard Thomas Elliott |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/467032/2/886115_v.2.pdf |title=The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections |publisher=University of Southampton |year=2002 |volume=2 |page=54 |language=en |chapter=Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era}}</ref>


==Vegetarianism== ==Vegetarianism==


He campaigned for Christian vegetarianism.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002232%2F18980929&page=12 |url-access=subscription|title=Vegetarianism From a Religious Aspect|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Woman's Signal|date=September 29, 1898|page=204|via=]}}</ref><ref name="Vegetarianism">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001634%2F18990124&page=4 |url-access=subscription|title=A Vegetarian Church|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Newcastle Daily Chronicle |date=January 24, 1899|page=4|via=]}}</ref> In 1899, Harvie argued for an ethical spiritual basis of vegetarianism commenting that Christian vegetarians hold a "deep religious conviction that life is sacred, that murder is horrible, that torture, such as millions of animals have daily to suffer in order that flesh-eaters may be satisfied is devilish".<ref name="Vegetarianism"/> He predicted that in the future there would be a "great church of vegetarians. It will grow until that day arrives when Christians will be consistent, and flesh eating will be unknown".<ref name="Vegetarianism"/> In 1901, he was a speaker at the 54th anniversary of the ] in Manchester with ], ], Percy Lund, ], ] and others.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19011026&page=2 |url-access=subscription|title=Vegetarians: The Fifty-Fourth Anniversary in Manchester|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Manchester City News |date=October 26, 1901|page=2|via=]}}</ref> Harvie was a council member of the ].<ref>{{cite journal|year=1899|title=The Order of the Golden Age|journal=The Herald of the Golden Age|url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/herald_of_the_golden_age/herald_of_the_golden_age_v4_n10_oct_15_1899.pdf|volume=4|issue=10|pages=}}</ref> He campaigned for Christian vegetarianism.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0002232%2F18980929&page=12 |title=Vegetarianism From a Religious Aspect|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Woman's Signal|date=September 29, 1898|page=204|via=]}}</ref><ref name="Vegetarianism">{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001634%2F18990124&page=4 |title=A Vegetarian Church|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Newcastle Daily Chronicle |date=January 24, 1899|page=4|via=]}}</ref> In 1899, Harvie argued for an ethical spiritual basis of vegetarianism commenting that Christian vegetarians hold a "deep religious conviction that life is sacred, that murder is horrible, that torture, such as millions of animals have daily to suffer in order that flesh-eaters may be satisfied is devilish".<ref name="Vegetarianism"/> He predicted that in the future there would be a "great church of vegetarians. It will grow until that day arrives when Christians will be consistent, and flesh eating will be unknown".<ref name="Vegetarianism"/> In 1901, he was a speaker at the 54th anniversary of the ] in Manchester with ], ], Percy Lund, ], ] and others.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0001788%2F19011026&page=2 |title=Vegetarians: The Fifty-Fourth Anniversary in Manchester|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Manchester City News |date=October 26, 1901|page=2|via=]}}</ref> Harvie was a council member of the ].<ref>{{cite journal|year=1899|title=The Order of the Golden Age|journal=The Herald of the Golden Age|url=http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/herald_of_the_golden_age/herald_of_the_golden_age_v4_n10_oct_15_1899.pdf|volume=4|issue=10|pages=}}</ref>


==Death== ==Death==


Harvie suffered from a weak heart.<ref name="The Northampton Mercury"/> As a young man his doctor forbade him to study for the ministry but Harvie persevered. He died of heart failure in 1905, at the age of 36.<ref name="Western Morning News"/> His funeral was held at Kettering Road Free Church and his remains were sent to Leicester Crematorium.<ref name="The Northampton Mercury"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000344%2F19050408&page=2 |url-access=subscription|title=Death of the Rev. Arthur Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Morpeth Herlad |date=April 8, 1905|page=2|via=]}}</ref> Harvie suffered from a weak heart.<ref name="The Northampton Mercury"/> As a young man his doctor forbade him to study for the ministry but Harvie persevered. He died of heart failure in 1905, at the age of 36.<ref name="Western Morning News"/> His funeral was held at Kettering Road Free Church and his remains were sent to Leicester Crematorium.<ref name="The Northampton Mercury"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000344%2F19050408&page=2 |title=Death of the Rev. Arthur Harvie|url-access=subscription|newspaper=Morpeth Herlad |date=April 8, 1905|page=2|via=]}}</ref>


The last letter that Harvie penned before his death was a letter on Boy's Brigades and military drill which was published in the '']''. The last letter that Harvie penned before his death was a letter on Boy's Brigades and military drill which was published in the '']''.
<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004336%2F19050519&page=4 |url-access=subscription|title=The Late Mr. Harvie's Last Letter|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Commercial, Shipping & General Advertiser|date=May 19, 1905|page=4|via=]}}</ref> <ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0004336%2F19050519&page=4 |title=The Late Mr. Harvie's Last Letter|url-access=subscription|newspaper=The Commercial, Shipping & General Advertiser|date=May 19, 1905|page=4|via=]}}</ref>

==Selected publications==

*{{cite book |last1=Harvie |first1=Arthur |last2=Coulson |first2=W. L. B.| authorlink2=William Lisle Blenkinsopp Coulson |first3=Stratton |last3=Joseph |authorlink3=Joseph Stratton (clergyman)|date=1911 |title=British Blood Sports |location=London |publisher=A. C. Fifield}}


==References== ==References==
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English Unitarian minister
Arthur Harvie
BornArthur Edgar Harvie
1869
Died28 March 1905 (aged 36)
Northampton
OccupationUnitarian minister
Spouse Katherine Maud ​(m. 1894)​

Arthur Harvie (1869 – 28 March 1905) was an English Unitarian minister and activist for anti-vivisection and vegetarianism.

Career

Harvie was a watchmaker by trade and decided to devote his life to the ministry of the Unitarian Church. He became minister of Christ Unitarian Church, Devonport in 1892 and was instrumental in getting the church renovated. He married Katherine Maud in 1894. He was minister at the Unitarian Church, Choppington from 1897 to 1901. He was minister in Gateshead where he succeeded in getting an iron church built.

In 1903, he moved to Northampton and was minister of Kettering Road Free Church. Harvie and his wife Katherine founded the Friendly Help Society in Northampton. Harvie was fond of Northampton and commented that "if this town is not the City of God, then there is no town which answers to the description. If we cannot say of this place, God is in the midst of her, then the earth has become a tomb and we are mouldering to decay".

Harvie was an anti-vivisectionist and member of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection. In 1899, he was a speaker at a meeting of the Union for Abolition of Vivisection at Sheffield Temperance Hall. His address was on the "immoral and unscientific method" of vivisection. He argued that no human had the right to torture any living animal, or to give it such intense pain that its life was not worth living. He was a member of the Humanitarian League and joined its executive committee in 1900.

Vegetarianism

He campaigned for Christian vegetarianism. In 1899, Harvie argued for an ethical spiritual basis of vegetarianism commenting that Christian vegetarians hold a "deep religious conviction that life is sacred, that murder is horrible, that torture, such as millions of animals have daily to suffer in order that flesh-eaters may be satisfied is devilish". He predicted that in the future there would be a "great church of vegetarians. It will grow until that day arrives when Christians will be consistent, and flesh eating will be unknown". In 1901, he was a speaker at the 54th anniversary of the Vegetarian Society in Manchester with George Black, Albert Broadbent, Percy Lund, Eustace Miles, J. C. Street and others. Harvie was a council member of the Order of the Golden Age.

Death

Harvie suffered from a weak heart. As a young man his doctor forbade him to study for the ministry but Harvie persevered. He died of heart failure in 1905, at the age of 36. His funeral was held at Kettering Road Free Church and his remains were sent to Leicester Crematorium.

The last letter that Harvie penned before his death was a letter on Boy's Brigades and military drill which was published in the Manchester Guardian.

Selected publications

References

  1. ^ "Death of Rev. A. Harvie". Western Morning News. March 31, 1905. p. 4 – via Findmypast.
  2. "Marriages". The Cornishman. September 13, 1894. p. 5 – via Findmypast.
  3. "Memorial Reredos Dedication". The Shields Daily News. November 13, 1930. p. 5 – via Findmypast.
  4. ^ "Death of the Rev. A. Harvie". The Northampton Mercury. March 31, 1905. p. 6 – via Findmypast.
  5. "Mrs Harvie". The Northampton Mercury. March 18, 1910. p. 7 – via Findmypast.
  6. "The Rev. Arthur Harvie". Northampton Daily Reporter. March 29, 1905. p. 2 – via Findmypast.
  7. "The Vivisection Question: Meeting in Bristol". The Western Daily Press. July 5, 1899. p. 3 – via Findmypast.
  8. "Vivisection Condemned: Meeting in York". The Yorkshire Herald. March 30, 1900. p. 6 – via Findmypast.
  9. "Proposed Abolition of Vivisection". Sheffield Daily Telegraph. December 8, 1899. p. 8 – via Findmypast.
  10. "Abolition of Vivisection". Sunderland Daily Echo. June 29, 1889. p. 4 – via Findmypast.
  11. "Rev. Arthur Harvie". The Northampton Mercury. May 5, 1905. p. 2 – via Findmypast.
  12. Gregory, James Richard Thomas Elliott (2002). "Biographical Index of British Vegetarians and Food reformers of the Victorian Era". The Vegetarian Movement in Britain c.1840–1901: A Study of Its Development, Personnel and Wider Connections (PDF). Vol. 2. University of Southampton. p. 54.
  13. "Vegetarianism From a Religious Aspect". The Woman's Signal. September 29, 1898. p. 204 – via Findmypast.
  14. ^ "A Vegetarian Church". The Newcastle Daily Chronicle. January 24, 1899. p. 4 – via Findmypast.
  15. "Vegetarians: The Fifty-Fourth Anniversary in Manchester". The Manchester City News. October 26, 1901. p. 2 – via Findmypast.
  16. "The Order of the Golden Age" (PDF). The Herald of the Golden Age. 4 (10). 1899.
  17. "Death of the Rev. Arthur Harvie". Morpeth Herlad. April 8, 1905. p. 2 – via Findmypast.
  18. "The Late Mr. Harvie's Last Letter". The Commercial, Shipping & General Advertiser. May 19, 1905. p. 4 – via Findmypast.
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