1710 - 1787 Author of "Wakantanka canteunkiyapi (As pants the wearied hart for cooling springs)" in Wakan Cekiye Odowan Robert Lowth was born in 1710, in Winchester. He was educated at Winchester School, and at New College, Oxford; Professor of Poetry in the Univesity of Oxford in 1741; Prebend of Durham, 1755; Bishop of S. David's, 1766; translated to Oxford the same year, and to London, 1777; declined the Archbishopric of Canterbury, 1783. He died in 1787.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.
Robert Lowth