Henry Putman

Putman, Henry, was born at Emsworth, Hants, July 18, 1861, and is engaged in commercial pursuits. He is a Wesleyan lay-preacher and an earnest hymnological student. Many of his hymns were first printed in Champness's Joyful News. In 1889 he published several in his booklet, Perfect Peace. These with additions were included in his Star and Vesper Bells, 1894. One of these, "We came at early morn to sing," p. 1594, ii., is annotated there in error. It was written in 1885, and printed in Joyful News, Feb. 25, 1886. In 1887 it was included in the Primitive Methodist Hymnal, and in 1896 in Hymns of Light and Life (London: A. Crombie). In this same collection the following are also included: "Blest Saviour, take my hand in Thine," Sunday School Chronicle, 1887; "Gentle Saviour, ever nigh" (1889); and “When clouds are swept across the sky" (1890), under the pen-name of "Mark Bernard."

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