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John Warrington Hatton

1710 - 1793 Person Name: John Hatton Composer of "DUKE STREET" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book John Warrington Hatton (b. Warrington, England, c. 1710; d, St. Helen's, Lancaster, England, 1793) was christened in Warrington, Lancashire, England. He supposedly lived on Duke Street in Lancashire, from where his famous tune name comes. Very little is known about Hatton, but he was most likely a Presbyterian, and the story goes that he was killed in a stagecoach accident. Bert Polman
John Warrington Hatton

William Knapp

1698 - 1768 Composer of "WAREHAM" in The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America Born: 1698, Ware­ham, Dor­set­shire, Eng­land. Died: Sep­tem­ber 26, 1768, Poole, Dor­set­shire, Eng­land. Buried: Poole, Dor­set­shire, Eng­land.
William Knapp

James Flint

1779 - 1855 Author of "In Pleasant Lands Have Fall'n the Lines" in The Mennonite Hymnary, published by the Board of Publication of the General Conference of the Mennonite Church of North America Flint, James, D.D., born at Reading, Mass., 1779, and graduated at Harvard, 1802. In 1806 he became pastor of a Unitarian Church at East Bridgewater, Mass., from which he passed to East Church, Salem, 1821. Died in 1855. In 1820 he contributed one hymn to Sewell’s New York Collection, and in 1843 he also published A Collection of Hymns, to which he contributed from 10 to 12 originals. His best known hymns are:— 1. Here to the High and Holy One. This hymn, "On leaving an Ancient Church," appeared in the Cambridge Selection of 1828. 2. In pleasant lands have fallen the lines. Remembrance of our Fathers. Written for the bicentenary of Quincy, Mass., May 25, 1840, and published in his Collection, 1843. 3. Happy the unrepining poor. Appeared in Sewell's New York Collection, 1820. Dr. Flint's hymns are unknown to the English Collections. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
James Flint

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