J. Compton-Rickett

Short Name: J. Compton-Rickett
Full Name: Compton-Rickett, J. (Joseph), 1847-1919
Birth Year: 1847
Death Year: 1919

Rickett, Joseph Compton, son of Joseph Rickett of East Hoathly, Sussex, was b. in London, Feb. 13, 1847; is interested in various commercial undertakings, especially in coal; M.P since 1906 for the Osgoldcross div. of Yorks; elected chairman of the Congregational Union of Eugland and Wales for 1907. His hymn:—
Above the world there rises high [Christ's Kingdom], appeared in his St. Christopher, with Psalm and Song, by Maurice Baxter, 1876, p. 89, headed "Ascension Day. Psalm xxiv”' and is in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.

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

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Sir Joseph Compton-Rickett, DL PC (13 February 1847 – 30 July 1919), was a British Liberal Party politician. He was also an industrialist (until 1902), lay preacher, and writer. He wrote poetry and fiction, as well as on such topics as popular philosophy. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Maurice Baxter.
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