biography
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| lived:
| (1818–66)
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| biography:
| Hymnologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and became warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead. An advanced High Churchman, he wrote many books on Church history, but is remembered chiefly for his hymns, and many of his translations are cherished worldwide. Among his best-known pieces are ‘Jerusalem the golden’ and ‘O happy band of pilgrims’. |
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