Benjamin Ingham

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Short Name:	Benjamin Ingham
Full Name:	Ingham, Benjamin, 1712-1772
Birth Year:	1712
Death Year:	1772

Ingham, Benjamin, M.A. The details of the life of this hymn-writer are given in the article on Inghamite Hymnody. Ingham's hymns appeared in the Kendal Hymn Book, 1757, and in various editions of the English Moravian Hymn Book. The 1886 edition of the Moravian Hymn Book contains the following hymns by him:—
1. Jesus, my Saviour, full of grace. Jesus All in All
2. The one thing needful, that good part. Mary's Choice.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

Benjamin Ingham (11 June 1712 [O.S.] – 1772) was an English cleric who was the founder of the Moravian Church in England as well as his own Inghamite societies. He was born and raised in the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He earned his B.A. degree from Oxford University, and was ordained at age 23. Methodist connections from Oxford led to a colonial mission in America where he developed a keen interest in the Moravian church from German missionaries. Following a 1738 visit to Germany for greater exposure to the Moravian faith, Ingham returned to preaching in Yorkshire for the next four years. During this time he built up a following of more societies than he could manage. Ingham relinquished control of his societies to the Moravian Brethren in 1742. Ingham’s Moravian transfo

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