| Short Name: | G. Linnaeus Banks |
| Full Name: | Banks, G. Linnaeus (George Linnaeus) 1821-1881 |
| Birth Year: | 1821 |
| Death Year: | 1881 |
Banks, George Linnaeus, newspaper editor and verse writer, was born at Birmingham, March 2, 1821, and died in London, May 3, 1881. His hymn, “I live far those who love me” [Work for God], in the Tonic Solfa Reporter, June, 1861, and in Daisies in the Grass, 1865 (the joint work of himself and his wife, Isabella, née Varley), p. 21, entitled "What I live for," and signed G. L. B. It is in various recent hymnals, sometimes as in Worship Song, 1905, beginning "I'd live." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by G. Linnaeus Banks (2) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| I live for those who love me | Geo. L. Banks (Author) | English | 26 |
| We all might do good, where we often do ill | G. Linnaeus Banks (Author) | English | 2 |
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