Horace Smith

Smith, Horace, B.A., s. of Kobert Smith, of Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, London, was b. Nov. 18, 1836, and educated at King's College, London, and Trin. Hall., Camb. (B.A. in honours, 1860). Called to the Bar in 1862, he has held several important appointments, and has been a Metropolitan Police Magistrate since 1888. He has published several vols. on legal subjects, and Poems, 1897, Pilate's Wife's Dream, 1860, Poems, 1889, Interludes (three series), 1892, 1894, 1899, and Hymns & Psalms, 1903. His hymns in common use include:—
1. Glory to God, all the heavens are telling. [Holy Trinity.] Appeared in his Poems, 1897, and Hymns and Psalms, 1903. In Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1904, with the omission of st. v., vi.
2. Roll back the stone, for the Angel of God has descended. [Easter.] From his Poems, 1897, and Hymns and Psalms, 1903, into Hymns for the Use of New College (Oxford), 1900.

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