S. F. Jones

Jones, Samuel Flood, M.A., son of William Jones, for many years the Secretary of the Religious Tract Society, was born in London in 1826, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford (B.A. 1851). Taking Holy Orders he was Minister of St. Matthew's, Spring Gardens, London, 1854-76; Lecturer of Bow, London, 1858-76; Minor Canon, Westminster Abbey, 1859; Precentor, 1869; Vicar of St. Botolph, Aldersgate, London, 1876; and Priest in Ordinary to the Queen, 1869. In 1860 he published Hymns of Prayer and Praise, Lond., Dalton & Lucy. This book contained 100 hymns, of which the following were by Mr. Jones:—
1. Here all is strife and war. The Present and the Future.
2. Jesus, my Advocate in heaven. Jesus the Advocate. This is adapted from "Star of the Sea."
3. Lord of light, this day our Guardian be. Morning.
4. This is the day of light, When first the silv'ry dawn. Sunday. Written long before 1860.
Mr. Jones's most popular hymn is:—
5. Father of Life, confessing. Holy Matrimony. This was written about 1867, at the request of the late Dean Stanley for use at Marriages in Westminster Abbey. It has passed into several hymn-books. Mr. Jones's brother, William Henry Rich-Jones, M.A., Vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and Canon of Salisbury (b. 1817, d. 1885), contributed :—
1. Haste, my soul, thy God adore. God the Sustainer.
2. Lord, Thy Solemn Passion past. Ascension. (In W. J. Blew's Collection, 1852-55, but not his) to his Hymns, &c, as above; and his wife Catherine Flood Jones (b. 1828) also contributed:—
Pilgrim, bend thy footsteps on. Onward. to the same work. He died Feb. 26, 1895.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Jones, Samuel F., p. 606, i. We find that his hymn “Father of life, confessing," was published with Turle's music in Feb., 1866.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)