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R. Monteith › Texts

Short Name: R. Monteith
Full Name: Monteith, R. (Robert), 1812-1884
Birth Year: 1812
Death Year: 1884

Monteith, Robert, M.A., son of Henry Monteith, M.P., of Curstairs House, Lanark, was b. in 1812, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837). He succeeded his father in 1848, and d. March 31, 1884, at Carstairs. His hymn,
I arise from dreams of time [thee]. (Sacred Heart of Jesus), appeared in the Rambler, Sept. 1850, p. 237, entitled "The Sacred Heart. Lines presented to a Lady as a substitute for Shelley's Lines to an Indian air. R. M." (Shelley's “Indian Serenade," written in 1819, begins "I arise from dreams of thee"). It is repeated in the St. Andrew's Catholic Hymn Book, 1863, and others. In the Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, 1862, it begins "I rise."

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

Wikipedia Biography

Robert Monteith (1812 – 31 March 1884), DL, JP, was a Scottish politician and philanthropist, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark.
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