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Francis Albert Rollo Russell

Short Name: Francis Albert Rollo Russell
Full Name: Russell, Francis Albert Rollo, 1849-1914
Birth Year: 1849
Death Year: 1914

Russell, Francis Albert Rollo, third son of John, first Earl Russell, was born July 10, 1849, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford; B.A. 1873, M.A. 1878. He is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society. His hymns appeared in his Break of Day, London, 1893, from which three passed into Horder's Hymns Supplem., 1894, viz.:—
1. Christian! rise, and act thy creed. Christian Service.
2. Come, Holy Spirit, kind to all. Whitsuntide.
3. O God, Whose voice the angels hear. The Eternal. These are 1893, pp. 127,128,125.

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


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Texts by Francis Albert Rollo Russell (3)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Christian, rise, and act thy creedFrancis Albert Rollo Russell (Author)English82
Come, Holy Spirit, kind to allFrancis Albert Rollo Russell (Author)English1
O God, whose voice the angels hearFrancis Albert Rollo Russell (Author)English2

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