J. B. Greenwood

Greenwood, John Brooke, born at Huddersfield, Feb. 9, 1828, and educated at the Huddersfield College, is a merchant shipper of cotton yarn to the continental markets. In 1853 he published Records-Memorial of E. B. Cave. He has written many hymns, chiefly for Sunday-school anniversary services, and other special occasions. Of these the following, which appeared with others in an Appendix to the Leeds Sunday School Hymn Book, published for the use of the Cheetham Hill (Manchester) Sunday School, are in common use outside that collection:—
1. Crown with Thy benediction. Holy Matrimony.
2. Finding: no place of rest. Return of the Dove to the Ark.
3. How long, 0 Lord, how long? Thy children sigh. First pub. in the Manchester Congregational Magazine.
4. There is no fold so fair as Thine. The Church of Christ.
5. What shall we render, Lord, to Thee? Holy Baptism.
The full text of No. 2 is 7 stanzas, i.-iv. forming the original, and v.-vii. being a subsequent addition. Through a Roman Catholic relative of the author st. i.-iv. were given in the Catholic Progress with her initial " S." From thence it was taken by Mr. Orby Shipley and included in his Annus Sanctus, 1884, Pt. ii., p. 81, with the same signature. The full text is in Horder's The Poet's Bible.
Mr. Greenwood's hymns possess great tenderness and refinement, and are worthy of greater attention than they have received.
[Rev. W. Garrett Horder]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology