1805 - 1874 Person Name: Thomas B. Browne, 1805-1874 Hymnal Number: 863 Author of "Praise the Lord of Heaven" in One in Faith Browne, Thomas Briarly, of Wellington, was the author of The Oxford Divines not Members of the Church of England, 1839; Thoughts of the Times, 1838; and the National Bankruptcy and other Poems, Lond., Pickering, 1844. From this last work a version of the 148th Psalm has come into somewhat extensive use in English-speaking countries. It is the well-known "Praise the Lord of heaven, praise Him in the height." Original text in Lord Selborne's Book of Praise, 1862, p. 25.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
T. B. Browne