John East

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John East (died 1856) was a 19th-century Anglican clergyman and writer.

At Oxford he was a friend of William Henry Havergal.

He became:

St Michael's, Bath, was rebuilt in 1837 during East's time there.

In 1847 he recorded his impressions of the Great Famine of Ireland in his Glimpses of Ireland in 1847.

Selected published works

(information mainly from COPAC )

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