Though lowly here our lot may be

Author: William Gaskell

Gaskell, William, M.A., son of Mr. William Gaskell, was born at Latchford (a suburb of Warrington, on the Cheshire side of the Mersey), 24 July, 1805. He was educated at Manchester New College and at the University of Glasgow, where he graduated M.A. in 1825. In 1828 he became co-pastor with the Rev. J. G. Robberds at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel, Manchester, a position he held until his death. Mr. Gaskell was a man of cultivated mind and considerable literary ability. His publications include Lectures on the Lancashire Dialect, 1853, a small volume of Temperance Rhymes, 1839, and various theological works. In 1832 he married Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson, who afterwards attained celebrity as the authoress of Mary Barton, and of other popul… Go to person page >

Though lowly here our lot may be. William Gaskell. [Work for God.] This is sometimes dated 1857, but Miss Gaskell (under date Sept. 21, 1906), while certain of her father's authorship, and thankfully recording that "many people have felt helped by it," is unable to say where or when it was first printed. It is in Miss E. Courtauld's Psalms, Hymns and Anthems, 1860, No. 422, and recently in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887, Public School Hymn Book, 1903, Worship Song , 1905, and others. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)