E. J. Newell

Newell, Ebenezer Josiah, M.A., son of C. W. Newell, was born in Southwark, Surrey, June 22,1853, entered Worcester College, Oxford, as an exhibitioner in 1871 (B.A. 1876, M.A. 1878) was ordained D. 1890, P. 1891, and has been since 1900 rector of Neen Sollars, Salop. His hymn,
We praise Thy Name, all-holy lord [St. David], was written 1896, and first printed in the Northern Churchman and St. David's Weekly, Feb. 29, 1896, as a hymn of the Welsh Saints, for St. David's Day, with 7 verses. In The English Hymnal, 1906, No. 211, with three verses, relating to St. David alone. [Rev. James Mearnes, M.S.]

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