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J. F. Elwin › Texts

Short Name: J. F. Elwin
Full Name: Elwin, J. F. (John Fountain), 1809-1890
Birth Year: 1809
Death Year: 1890

Elwin, John Fountain, F.R.C.S., son of Col. Fountain Elwin, was born in Sicily, June 8, 1809; was Medical Superintendent of the British Medical Mission from 1872 to 1885; and died Nov. 17, 1890. A few of his hymns are in the Enlarged London Hymn Book, 1873, including "Peace, what a precious sound" (Peace with God).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)


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