1770 - 1834 Author of "Daughters Of Pity, Tune The Lay" in The Cyber Hymnal Hampson, William, 1770-1834. A Dukinfield layman, three of whose hymns are in the Dukinfield Collection, 1822.
1. Daughters of pity, tune the lay. Charity. Also in Aspland, 1810, and Dobell, 1816.
2. The Lord of life hath burst his chains. The Resurrection of Christ.
3. The toil has ceased by which we're fed. The Lord's Day.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
William Hampson