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T. A. Ashworth

Short Name: T. A. Ashworth
Full Name: Ashworth, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1806-1884
Birth Year: 1806
Death Year: 1884

Ashworth, Thomas Alfred, is the author of the following hymns in Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1840 and 1873:—
1. Christian warrior, faint not, fear not. Courage Enjoined.
2. O terrible in judgment, hear. Death anticipated with Fear.
3. Pour, blessed Gospel, glorious news for man. Blessings of the Gospel. In the American Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, it reads, "O blessed Gospel, glorious news for man."
Concerning Mr. Ashworth we have no definite information.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Ashworth, T. A., p. 1551, ii., born at Manchester, Jan. 1, 1806; Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1828; Vicar of Farnworth 1830-1836; and died at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, Feb. 5, 1884. His hymns, noted on p. 1551, ii., appeared in his New Selection of Hymns... for St. John’s ...Church, ...Farnworth, 1831. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

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


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