1712 - 1772 Hymnal Number: d43 Author of "The one thing needful, that good part" in Conference Hymns, Original and Selected. Vol. 2 Ingham, Benjamin, M.A. The details of the life of this hymn-writer are given in the article on Inghamite Hymnody. Ingham's hymns appeared in the Kendal Hymn Book, 1757, and in various editions of the English Moravian Hymn Book. The 1886 edition of the Moravian Hymn Book contains the following hymns by him:—
1. Jesus, my Saviour, full of grace. Jesus All in All
2. The one thing needful, that good part. Mary's Choice.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Benjamin Ingham