1851 - 1913 Author of "If suddenly upon the street" in The Hymnal Richardson, Charles Francis, born at Hallowell, Me., May 29, 1851; graduated at Dartmouth 1871; from 1882 Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Literature at Dartmouth; published The Cross, 1879, from which "If suddenly upon the street" (Sacrifice for Christ) in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and others, is taken.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
C. F. Richardson