Henry Moule

Short Name: Henry Moule
Full Name: Moule, Henry, 1801-1880
Birth Year: 1801
Death Year: 1880

Moule, Henry , M.A., born Jan. 27, 1801, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1828. Taking Holy Orders in 1824, he was successively Curate of Melksham, and of Gillingham, Dorset; and Vicar of Fordington, Dorset. He died at Fordington, Feb. 3, 1880. His publications included a large number of pamphlets, some small prose works, and the following in verse:—
Scraps of Sacred Verse, 1846, and Supplemental Hymns, 1863. Of his hymns in common use we have, "Lord God, in Thee confiding" (1863), Faith and Hope and "For those in Christ who calmly sleep" (1863), Burial. In addition to these there are 29 hymns by Mr. Moule in the Appendix to the Fordington Hymn Book, Dorchester, H. Ling, 1878, all of which are signed Rev. Henry Moule.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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Moule, Henry, p. 771, i. Another hymn by this author, "Who can the strength afford?" (God the Strength of His people) has passed from the Appendix (1878) to the Fordington Hymn-book, into Hymns of Consecration and Faith, 1902, No. 571.

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

Wikipedia Biography

Henry Moule /ˈmoʊl/ (1801–1880) was a priest in the Church of England and inventor of the dry earth toilet, a type of pail closet.

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