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Warner, John Allan, s. of John Warner, F.R.C.S., was b. in North London, May 16, 1851, and educated at the Southwark Miss. College. Ordained D. 1878, P. 1879, he was Curate of St. Paul's, Southampton, 1878-80, and later of other parishes until 1888, when he became Vicar of Hadlow Down, Sussex. He is the author of a considerable number of hymns. Sixty of these were published in 1900 as Sixty Supplemental Hymns (Uckfield: J. Brooker & Sons). From this Supplement, "Brothers, joining hand in hand" (For Men's Services and Clubs), in the 1904 ed. of Hymns Ancient & Modern is taken. Several of Mr. Warner's hymns were written for special occasions, and printed as leaflets, in which form they had extensive circulation, especially " The Nation's Prayer" in time of war, “O Lord of Majesty and Might."

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