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R. Cecil

1748 - 1810 Hymnal Number: 985 Author of "Cease here longer to detain me" in A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship Cecil, Richard, M.A., born in London, Nov. 8, 1748, and educated at Queen's Coll., Oxford. Ordained deacon in 1776, and priest in 1777. He became the Vicar of two churches near Lewes shortly after; chaplain of St. John's Chapel, Bedford Row, London, 1780; and Vicar of Chobham and Bisley, 1800. He died in 1810. His poem:— Cease here longer to detain me. Desiring Heaven. In 9 stanzas of 4 lines, is supposed to be addressed by a dying infant to his mother. It was written for his wife on the death of a child “only one month old, being removed at daybreak, whose countenance at the time of departure was most heavenly." It was first published in Mrs. Cecil's Memoir of him, prefixed to his Remains, 1811, and is headed “Let me go, for the day breaketh." In the American hymn-books it is usually abbreviated, as in the Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. [William T. Brooke] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

W. M. Bunting

1805 - 1866 Hymnal Number: 281 Author of "Rites change not, Lord, the heart" in A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship Bunting, William Maclardie, son of Dr. Jabez Bunting, a well-known Wesleyan minister, was born at Manchester, Nov. 23,1805, and educated at the Wesleyan Schools at Woodhouse Grove, and Kingswood, and at St. Saviour's Grammar School, Southwark. In 1824 he entered the Wesleyan Ministry, and continued in active circuit work for twenty-five years. Failing health then compelled him to retire upon the Supernumerary list, when he took up his residence in London, and died there on Nov. 13, 1866. In addition to editing the Select Letters of Agnes Bulmer, &c, 1842, and engaging in other literary labours, he contributed hymns to the Methodist Magazine (under the nom de plume of Alec) from time to time, and specially 43 to Dr. Leifchild's Original Hymns, 1842. Of these Dr. Leifchild rejected 8, and abbreviated 2. In 1842 these 10 hymns were published as An Instrument of Ten Strings, strung in aid of the Wesleyan Missions, By Alec. Other hymns by him were included in his Memorials, &c, published by the Rev. G. S. Rowe in 1870. Although a few of these hymns have come into common use, they have failed as a whole to command public attention. Those in common use are:— 1. Blessed are the pure in heart, They have, &c. Purity. 2. Blest Spirit! from the Eternal Sire. Holy Spirit. 3. Dear is the day which God hath made. Sunday. 4. Father, our child we place. Holy Baptism. 5. Holy Spirit, pity me. Lent. 6. O blessed, blessed sounds of grace. After Sermon. 7. O crucified, triumphant Lord. Holy Baptism. 8. O God, how often hath Thine ear. Renewing the Covenant. Written in 1824, and given in the Supplement to the Wesleyan Hymn Book 1830. This is the best known of his hymns. 9. Thou doest all things well. God all in all. Most of these hymns are in the revised Wesleyan Hymn Book, 1875; Nos. 1-4 and 6 were in Dr. Leifchild's Original Hymns, 1842, and all are in the Memorials, 1870. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Bunting, William Maclardie, p. 193, ii. Of his hymns named here, Nos. 1-4, and 6, were in Leifchild's Original Hymns, 1842: as also, "We love to call creation Thine." (Missions.) The hymn, "Rites cannot change the heart," in the American Methodist Episcopal Hymnal, 1878, begins with stanza iii. of No. 4, "Father, our child we place." His hymn, No. 9, "O God, how often hath thine ear," was written at the age of 15, and was first published in the Methodist Magazine for Jan. 1824. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Joseph Cottle

1770 - 1853 Hymnal Number: 856 Author of "We thank thee, Lord of heaven and earth" in A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship Cottle, Joseph, b. 1770, d. 1853. A native of Bristol, and from 1791 to 1798 a bookseller and publisher. He is best known as the friend of Coleridge and Southey, of whom, in 1837, he published Recollections, and in 1847 Reminiscences. He was the author of numerous works in prose and verse. In 1801 he published a New Version of the Psalms of David, of which a 2nd edition (privately printed), appeared in 1805. In 1828 he published Hymns and Sacred Lyrics. In Three Parts, by Constantius. Only a few copies were printed with this title, the greater part of the issue reading " by Joseph Cottle," instead of "by Constantius." These Hymns, Psalms and Sacred Lyrics," Cottle says, “are all originals, written progressively through a period of 20 years." Some of them found their way into a few collections, but have little poetic merit, and are now disused. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================= Cottle, Joseph, p. 264, i. Two of his hymns still sur¬vive: (1) "Mighty Lord, extend Thy empire " (Missions); (2) "While marching on to Canaan's land" (Christian Warfare). These are from his Hymns, &c, 1828. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Marsh

Hymnal Number: 838 Author of "God, thou hast scattered us and driven" in A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship

Edward G. Marsh

1783 - 1862 Hymnal Number: 842 Author of "God is in Judah known" in A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship Marsh, Edward Garrard, M.A. was born in 1783, and educated at Wadham College, Oxford, (B.A. 1804.) He was appointed Vicar of Aylesford in 1841, having previously been Minister of Hampstead Chapel. His Sixty Psalms and Hymns, 1st set, were published in 1823. The entire Book of Psalms was published in 1832. The 4th edition of his Psalms & Hymns. (210 in all) was published by Seeley's, London, 1862. Mr. Marsh died Sept. 20, 1862. [No. 230.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

James Cox

? - 1825 Hymnal Number: 102 Author of "See from on high a light divine" in A Collection of Hymns for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship Cox, James, d. 1825. An Exeter layman, who contributed several hymns to the Exeter Collection, 1812. Of these Belfast Collection and J. P. Hopp’s Collection, give:— 1. Homage pay to God above. Thanksgiving and Belfast Collection, also:— 2. See from on high a light divine. The baptism of Jesus. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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