Reverend Henry Caner

The Reverend Henry Caner, 1700-1792, was a prominent Church of England clergyman in Connecticut and Massachusetts in the Eighteenth Century. Little is known of his early life, but it is commonly surmised that his father, a craftsman and emigrant took him to America as a child. He graduated from Yale, and returned from there to England for ordination. He was appointed as a missionary by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at Fairfield, Connecticut. In 1747 he was appointed Rector of King's Chapel, Boston, the most prominent Anglican Church in New England. During the period of the American Revolution, he wrote several vigorous defences of the Church of England, and suffered during the events leading to the Revolution. In 1776, he fled with a group of English loyalists to London, from where he moved to Cardiff in 1778. Subsequently he lived in Long Ashton, near Bristol, where he died in 1792.