1832 - 1902 Author of "When Day's Shadows Lengthen" in Christian Hymnal Lee, Frederick George, D.D., born in 1832, educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (S. C. L. 1854), and Vicar of All Saints, Lambeth, since 1867. Author of a large number of works (see Crockford, 1891). His hymns "Laud the grace of God victorious" (St. Alban), and "When day's shadows lengthen" (Old Age), appeared in the People's Hymnal, 1867.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Born: January 6, 1832, Thame, Oxfordshire, England.
Died: January 2, 1902, Lambeth, London, England.
Lee attended Cuddesdon Theological College in Oxfordshire, and was ordained an Anglican minister in 1856. He served at St. John’s Church in Aberdeen. In 1867, he moved to All Saints’ Church in Lambeth, where he ministered to the poor for 32 years. He wrote a number of works in history, archaeology, theology, and poetry, and edited journals and newspapers. Retiring from All Saints’ in 1899, he converted to Roman Catholicism two years later.
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