1833 - 1902 Person Name: John R. Vernon Author of "There's Peace and Rest in Paradise" in The Cyber Hymnal Vernon, John Richard, M.A., of Hertford College, Oxford, Rector of St. Audries, Bridgwater since 1872, and author of The Harvest of a Quiet Eye and other works, contributed to the 1889 Suppl. Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, "There's peace and rest in Paradise" (Courage and Hope).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. R. Vernon