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Beck, Thomas. Concerning this writer and compiler we have failed in gathering anything beyond the information contained in the title-pages of his works, and that he contributed to the Gospel and Evangelical Magazines under the signature of "T. B." His works include:—
(1) Cause of the Dumb pleaded, 1791, 2nd ed.; (2) The Missionary, a Poem, 1795; (3) The Mission, a Poem, 1796; (4) Poetic Amusements, 1809; (5) Elegy on the Princess Charlotte, 1817; (6) Hymns calculated for the Purposes of Public, Social, and Private Worship, collected, composed, and arranged under their proper heads by Thos. Beck, Minister of the Gospel at Gravesend. Printed for the Author by T. Fisher, Rochester, MDCCLXXXII.
From the last work the hymn, "Jesus, I [we] lift my [our] soul to Thee" (Holy Baptism), is taken. It is given in the Hymnal Companion, new edition, 1876, but previously appeared in Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833. [William T. Brooke]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Beck, T., p. 121, i. He was born at Southwark 1755, preached at Gravesend, at Dr. Watts's Meeting House, Bury Street, London, for 32 years, and later at Deptford. He died in 1844.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)