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Cheer up, desponding soul
Author: Unknown Appears in 26 hymnals Used With Tune: SPANISH HYMN
Cheer up, desponding soul
SPANISH HYMN
Appears in 552 hymnals Incipit: 17161 53142 17117 Used With Text: Cheer up, desponding soul
SPANISH HYMN
ST. QUINTIN
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Parr (1815-?) Incipit: 55431 17176 56655 Used With Text: Cheer up, desponding soul
ST. QUINTIN
Cheer up, desponding soul
Author: John Byrom Hymnal: Hymns of the Ages #d12 (1859) Languages: English
Cheer up, desponding soul
Cheer up, desponding soul
Author: John Byrom Hymnal: Worship in the School Room #d18 (1870)
Cheer up, desponding soul
Cheer up, desponding soul
Author: John Byrom Hymnal: Jubilant Voices #d20 (1870) Languages: English
Cheer up, desponding soul
Anonymous
Person Name: Unknown Author of "Cheer up, desponding soul" in Worship in the School Room In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous
John Byrom
1692 - 1763 Person Name: John Byrom (1691-1763) Author of "Cheer up, desponding soul" in The Oxford Hymn Book John Byrom was born in 1691, at Manchester, where his father was a linen-draper. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, 1708; became a Fellow of the College in 1714; took his M.A. in 1716, and then proceeded to Montpelier, where he studied medicine. He afterwards abandoned medicine, settled in London, and obtained his living by teaching a system of shorthand, which he had projected. He was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1724. He died Sept. 28, 1763. The first edition of Byrom's poems appeared in 1773, in two volumes. A more complete edition was published in 1814. Byrom did not seek publicity as an author, but wrote verses only for recreation.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872
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Byrom, John, M.A., F.R.S., born at Manchester, Feb. 29,1691-2, baptized the same day, and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1712 ; M.A. 1715. He was elected a Fellow of his College in 1714. After studying medicine for a time at Montpellier, he returned to London, and earned his livelihood by teaching shorthand. Elected F.R.S. in 1724, and succeeded to the family estates about the same time. He died Sept. 28, 1763. His Poems were first published in 1773, in two volumes. In 1814 a more complete edition was issued by Nichols, of Leeds. From these Poems less than half a dozen hymns have come into common use. One of these, however, has a repu¬tation which has extended to all English-speaking countries. We refer to his "Christians, awake!" (q.v.). His hymn, "My spirit longeth for Thee," is also worthy of attention.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
John Byrom
B. F. Baker
1811 - 1889 Composer of "LINTON" in The Gospel Psalmist B. F. Baker, born at Wenham, Mass., July 10, 1811; held many conventions; was six years Vice-President of the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston; a teacher in the public schools; principal of the Boston Music School; a composer of much music, and editor of a large number of church music, school instruction, glee, and other music books.
A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876
B. F. Baker
