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Joseph Stammers

Short Name: Joseph Stammers
Full Name: Stammers, Joseph, 1801-1885
Birth Year: 1801
Death Year: 1885

Joseph Stammers was born at Bury S. Edmunds, in 1801. He was educated for the legal profession, and practised for some years as a solicitor in London. In 1833, he was called to the bar, and continued to practice as a barrister.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872.

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Stammers, Joseph, was born at Bury St. Edmunds in 1801, and educated for the legal profession. After practising in London as a solicitor for some time he was called to the Bar in 1833, and joined the Northern Circuit. (Lyra Britannica,1868.) He died in London, May 18, 1885. His popular hymn—
Breast the wave, Christian (Perseverance) was contributed to the Cottage Magazine (a small serial edited by the Rev. John Buckworth, late Vicar of Dewsbury) in 1830. It has passed into several collections, including the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858; the People's Hymnal, 1867 (altered), and others.
Mr. Stammers also contributed 4 hymns to Dr. Rogers's Lyra Britannica1868, but these have not come into common use.

-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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