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Nathaniel Barnaby

Short Name: Nathaniel Barnaby
Full Name: Barnaby, Nathaniel, 1829-1915
Birth Year: 1829
Death Year: 1915

Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, C.B., Director of Naval Construction in Her Majesty's Service, born at Chatham in 1829, has been for many years interested in Christian education, and is Superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School at Lee, in Kent. He is the author of several hymns composed for use in the school at Lee. Of these, one beginning “To Jesus, our Captain, to Jesus, our King," and another, "The soldier keeps his wakeful Watch," composed to the German tune, "The Rhine-Watch," are in W. R. Stevenson's School Hymnal, Lond., 1881. His hymns are spirited and popular. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M. A.]

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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Texts by Nathaniel Barnaby (7)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
God bless our Father-land! Cradled in oceanSir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B. (Author)English2
I've a Father in heaven whom my eyes cannot seeNathaniel Barnaby (Author)English2
Lord! I repent, with grief and shameNathaniel Barnaby (Author)English2
Stay! gentle dove, and tell me whereSir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B. (Author)English2
The soldier keeps his wakeful watchN. Barnaby (Author)English3
To Jesus our captain, to Jesus our KingNathaniel Barnaby (Author)English2
We the children of the daySir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B. (Author)English2

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