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J. Young
1800 - 1900 Person Name: Young Hymnal Number: 456 Author of "Love to Christ desired" in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Young, J. Under this signature two hymns are given in the American Baptist Psalmist, 1843: (1) "O for a shout of joy" (God's Eternal Love), No. 157, in 5 stanzas of 6 lines; and (2) "O Holy Lord, our God" (On behalf of Ministers), No. 952, in 4 stanzas of 7 lines. Both are still in common use.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. Young
William Kingsbury
1744 - 1818 Person Name: Kingsbury Hymnal Number: 1127 Author of "Prayer for a Revival" in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Born: July 12, 1744, Bishopsgate Street, London, England.
Christened: August 12, 1744, Poultry Chapel, Camomile Street Independent Church, London, England.
Died: February 18, 1818, Caversham, Southampton, England.
Kingsbury, William, was born in 1744, educated at an Independent academy in London, and became Pastor of the ancient Congregational Church, Above Bar, in Southampton, where he died in 1818, after an honourable and useful ministry of fifty-four years. He was the author of several published sermons and pamphlets, including:—(1) A Sermon on the King's recovery, 1780; (2) The Manner in which Protestant Dissenters perform Public Worship represented and vindicated, 1796; (3) An Apology for Village Preachers, 1799; (4) A Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Towle, 1807, &c.
Kingsbury was one of the ministers under whose patronage Dobell published his New Selection, 1806, and to that book contributed two hymns.-—"Great Lord of all thy churches, hear!" No. 213 (Divine Worship), and "Let us awake our joys," No. 100 (Jesus the King). Both these hymns are in common use, the second being specially popular in America. [Rev. W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
William Kingsbury
Leonard Withington
1789 - 1885 Person Name: Withington Hymnal Number: 921 Author of "For m" in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs Withington, Leonard, D.D., was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1789, and graduated at Yale 1814. He was pastor of the First Congregational Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, from 1816, and died there, April 22, 1885. His hymn, "O Saviour of a world undone" (Passiontide), appeared in E. Nason's Congregational Hymn Book 1857. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Leonard Withington
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