1720 - 1793 Author of "Had I ten thousand gifts beside" in The Baptist Hymnal, for Use in the Church and Home Wingrove, John. A few hymns by this writer are in J. Middleton's Hymns, 1793. D. Sedgwick dates his pieces 1785. One of these still in common use is, "Hail! my ever blessed Jesus." b. 1720; d. 1793.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
John Wingrove