page_title: James Hessey
hierarchical_section_title: James Hessey
caption_attribution_description: Caricature of The Reverend James Augustus Hessey, D.C.L. (1814-1892). Caption read "Merchant Taylors". Accompanying biography in Vanity Fair read "He is full of reading, ready beyond belief with citations of authority.... He holds it to be an argument that Christianity must be true because it produces good effects.... He is a highly respectable man, with great character for piety, earnestness, and self-denial".
context_page_description: James Augustus Hessey was a British cleric and Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood.
context_section_description: James Augustus Hessey (17 July 1814 – 24 December 1892)  was a British cleric and Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood.
caption: Hessey caricatured by Ape for Vanity Fair, 1874
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