![]() The warden, who lives with his remaining child, an unmarried younger daughter Eleanor, performs his duties conscientiously. Mr Harding was appointed to this position through the patronage of his old friend the Bishop of Barchester, who is also the father of Archdeacon Grantly to whom Harding's older daughter, Susan, is married. The income maintains the almshouse itself, supports its twelve bedesmen, and, in addition, provides a comfortable abode and living for its warden. Hiram's Hospital is an almshouse supported by a medieval charitable bequest to the Diocese of Barchester. The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, in the fictional county of Barsetshire. ![]() ![]() It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, followed by Barchester Towers. The Warden is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longman in 1855. ![]()
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