Julius Brigg

Brigg, Julius, born at Leeds, 1840, is the youngest son of John Newsom Brigg, woollen merchant, of that town, and an earnest worker in Sunday Schools, in connection with which he wrote numerous hymns and poems. Mr. Julius Brigg entered the Wesleyan Ministry in 1864, since which time he has been engaged in full circuit work. His contributions to hymnody include the following hymns:—
1. Father, from Thy throne in glory. Sunday School Teachers. Written in October, 1861, to be sung at the Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan S. S. Teachers of Leeds. It was published in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, The Golden Harp Sunday School Hymn Book, and others.
2. Lord of angels, pure and holy. Divine Worship. A hymn for children written in March, 1871, and included in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879.
3. Friends of truth and liberty. Temperance. Dated Sept., 1872, and given in the Wesleyan Temperance Hymns and Songs, 1877.
4. The many are not always right. For Bands of Hope. Written in June, 1876, and included in various Temperance hymnals, and in Stevenson's School Hymnal, 1880.
5. If every little sunbeam. Temperance. Dated Oct., 1877, and pub. in the Wesleyan Temperance H. and Songs the same year.
6. Again we meet in gladness. S. S. Anniversary. Written in 1880, and first published in Stevenson's School Hymnal, the same year.
Outside of hymnody Mr. Brigg has written somewhat extensively for the Wesleyan Magazines. He died April 18, 1893.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)