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Born in 1810, in Bradford, Yorkshire, to Samuel Hailstone and Ann Hailstone, née Jones. Samuel Hailstone was a notable botanist. By 1837, he was residing in Cambridgeshire, and spent some time as the vicar of Bottisham until 1861. While at Bottisham, he renovated the Bottisham church and established a new one at Lode, and spent much of his personal fortune providing education for both parishes. Hailstone purchased the manor Anglesey Abbey in 1848, and extensively renovated it, adding a servant's wing, converting the ancient monk's room to an entrance hall and planting trees along the drive. It was during his ownership that the manor began to be known as Anglesey Abbey. Several sketches of made by Hailstone still exist. His widow sold the property to the Reverend James George Clark in 1888. Information on his time after leaving his position as vicar of Bottisham is less clear. Hailstone served as the treasurer Widows and Orphans of Clergy Society, Cambridge, from at least 1853-64. While election rolls have him living at Anglesey Abbey in 1870, the census of 1871 has Hailstone living within the boundaries of the parish of St. Mary the Less, Cambridge at 6 Scroope Terrace with his wife, three children and two servants. Cambridge was listed as his residence upon his death on 26th April 1871.

Hailstone married Jane Elizabeth Lay of Wakes Colne, Essex (1811-1891), and had ten children: Mary Hailstone (1839 -1912); John Hailstone (1841-1852); Alfred Hailstone (b.1842); Edward Hailstone (1843-1932); Arthur Hailstone (1847-1919); Walter Hailstone (1849-1913); Herbert Hailstone (1851-1896); Samuel Hailstone (1851-1926); Frank Hailstone (1854-1855) and Alice Hailstone (1855-1921).

Stephen Hale Gushée, Priest, columnist, television moderator and devoted husband and father, died Saturday [April 6, 2013] after a months-long battle with bladder cancer. He was 76.

Steve lived a life with the throttle wide open, touching countless people through his engaging sermons and his thought-provoking columns. A fiercely independent thinker, he never shied away from controversial opinions and as a man of deep spirituality, he never feared sharing it. His family and many friends also knew a compassionate, loving man with a marvelous sense of humor.

Steve was an ordained Episcopal priest for more than four decades, serving as senior associate rector at Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach from 1991-1994 and also assisting at Grace Episcopal Church in West Palm Beach. For 13 years before that, he was dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut. He was rector of Trinity Church in Newtown, Connecticut, and served at St. Peter's Church in Cheshire, with his mentor and friend, Bishop Morgan Porteus.

For five years, beginning in 1994, he was the religion writer for the Palm Beach Post and contributed a weekly opinion column, "On Religion," until 2008. His column was distributed to hundreds of newspapers across the country by the Cox News Service. He and the papers that carried his work received thousands of laudatory letters, emails and telephone calls over the years. His columns attracted so much attention because of his passion and the simple clarity of his voice. He detested intolerance and hubris, and said so often and loudly. He was skeptical of fundamentalists. He strongly defended the right of women to become priests ("Oppressed women have men to thank.") He was an early advocate for gay rights, once condemning the expulsion of a student from a private school because he came out of the closet his senior year. And often, he was gentle, funny and enlightening ("A banquet is a better symbol of Christianity than a fish stick.'')

For 13 years, until 2012, Steve was the moderator of "Viewpoint" on WPTV, the Miami PBS affiliate. The show, which has been airing for more than three decades, brings together religious leaders and scholars who delve into religious, moral and ethical topics.

Stephen Hale Gushée was born in Detroit in 1936. At age 13, he boarded a train eastward, where he would spend the rest of his life.

He attended Kent School, in Kent, Conn., where he was on the rowing team and was captain of the football team. In 1953, he rowed in the Henley Royal Regatta in England, by far the best known race of its kind in the world. The trip helped fuel his interest in seeing more of the world and he became especially interested in the Mideast, where he would make many trips.

He attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, on a U.S. Navy scholarship.

Following graduation in 1958, he served for three years as a line officer aboard the USS Shelldrake, a minesweeper assigned to the Navy's Atlantic Fleet.

Shortly after leaving the service, he enrolled in the Episcopal Theological School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he received his master's of divinity degree. He was ordained in 1967.

Over the years he also studied at St. George's College in Jerusalem, the Virginia Seminary in Alexandria, and the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut.

Steve was one of the original members of the American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. He was a canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, Scotland, for 10 years and served as a member and, at times, director of a number of social service organizations and inner city agencies.

He married Mary Coakley in 1996 and in his later years assisted her in the day-to-day operations of her women's fashion store in Palm Beach, Mildred Hoit.

Cook at Jesus College between c. 1783 and 1786.