Westbury, Joseph, born in 1838. Ordained in 1861, Vicar of Hartshill, Staffordshire, 1866-86, and Chaplain of the Newcastle (Staffordshire) Union Workhouse from 1876 to his death on Nov. 29, 1890, was the author of “Brightly, O Father, when morning is breaking" (Morning), in Thring's Collection, 1882.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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