1793 - 1875 Author of "The hermit" in The Carol Beattie, William, M.D., born in 1793, and died Mar. 18, 1875, author of "When clouds are hovering o'er us" (Safety in God) in Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873, where it is dated 1866.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
William Beattie