Short Name: | Pendlebury Houghton |
Full Name: | Houghton, Pendlebury, 1758-1824 |
Birth Year: | 1758 |
Death Year: | 1824 |
Houghton, Pendlebury, 1758-1824. Minister at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, and from 1812-1823 at Paradise Street Chapel, Liverpool. His hymn on The reunion of friends after death, "Blest be the hour when friends shall meet," is in Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, Martineau’s Hymns of Praise and Prayer, and J. P. Hopp’s Collection, 1877; Sometimes as:— "Blest hour when virtuous friends shall meet."
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Texts by Pendlebury Houghton (3) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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Blest be the hour when friends shall meet | Pendlebury Houghton (Author) | 3 | |
Blest hour, when righteous souls shall meet | Houghton (Author) | 4 | |
Blest hour, when virtuous friends shall meet | Pendlebury Houghton (Author) | 8 |