1847 - 1919 Person Name: J. Compton Rickett Author of "Above the world there rises high" in The Sunday School Hymnary Rickett, Joseph Compton, son of Joseph Rickett of East Hoathly, Sussex, was b. in London, Feb. 13, 1847; is interested in various commercial undertakings, especially in coal; M.P since 1906 for the Osgoldcross div. of Yorks; elected chairman of the Congregational Union of Eugland and Wales for 1907. His hymn:—
Above the world there rises high [Christ's Kingdom], appeared in his St. Christopher, with Psalm and Song, by Maurice Baxter, 1876, p. 89, headed "Ascension Day. Psalm xxiv”' and is in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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