1800 - 1842 Person Name: J. Henley, 1800-1842 Author of "Hark, hark, hark! while infant voices sing" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Born: March 18, 1800, Torquay, Devonshire, England.
Died: May 2, 1842, Weymouth, England.
Henley, John, born at Torquay, March 18, 1800; engaged for some years in circuit work as a Wesleyan minister; and died at Weymouth, May 2, 1842. His well-known and popular children's hymn for Palm Sunday, "Children of Jerusalem," appeared in the Wesleyan Sunday School Tune Book, in J. Curwen's Hymns & Chants, 1844, and in many modern collections for children. Orig. text in the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879.
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology
John Henley