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Richard Thomas Pembroke Pope

Short Name: Richard Thomas Pembroke Pope
Full Name: Pope, Richard Thomas Pembroke
Birth Year: 1799
Death Year: 1859

Pope, Richard Thomas Pembroke , M.A., eldest son of Mr. Thomas Pope, of Cork, was born at Cork, March 13, 1799, educated at Hyde Abbey, Winchester, and at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A: 1822); took Holy Orders in 1822; and died at Kingstown, near Dublin, Feb. 7. 1859. His hymn "In trouble and in grief, O God [Lord]" (Peace in Affliction) was given anonymously in Carus Wilson's Friendly Visitor, June 1824, p. 72, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, and headed "A Hymn." This text is repeated in the Irish Church Hymnal , 1873, with st. ii. 1. 4, "Spread fragrance when they're bruised," altered to "Perfume the air when bruised;" and st. iv. 1. 2, "In other times," &c, altered to "At other times," &c. This hymn is in several collections in Great Britain and America. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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