Thomas William Baxter Aveling

Aveling, Thomas William Baxter, D.D., born Castletown, Isle of Man, May 11, 1815, educated privately and at Highbury College for the Congregational Ministry, and ordained to the pastorate of Kingsland in 1838, died at Reedham, July 3, 1884. In 1875 he received the degree of D.D. from the Howard University, United States. His published works include The Irish Scholar, a Narrative, 1841; Naaman, or Life's Shadows and Sunshine, 1853 ; Voices of Many Waters, &c, 1855; The Service of the Sanctuary, &c, 1859, including contributions to periodicals. Dr. Aveling was sometime editor of The Jewish Herald. In 1834 he published a small volume of poems and hymns. Those of his hymns which have come into common use were mostly written from year to year to be sung when he preached his New Year's Sermon to the young. Some of them came to the public through the Magazines. We are not aware that they have been collected. The best known are:—"On! towards Zion, on I" "Hail! Thou God of grace and glory," and "Lord of the lofty and the low."

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Aveling, Thomas William Baxter. (Castletown, Isle of Man, May 11, 1815--July 3, 1884, Reedham). Congregationalist. Highbury College, 1838. Honorary D.D. from Howard University, 1875. Pastor of Independent Chapel at Kingsland, a suburb of London, 1838-1884. Author and editor, and chairman of the Congregational Union 1876.

--Anastasia Van Burkalow, DNAH Archives