And now that years have sped away

Author: Benjamin LaTrobe

La Trobe, Benjamin, was born in Dublin, April 19, 1725, and educated at the University of Glasgow. He entered the Ministry of the Moravians, and subsequently became superintendent of that body in England. He died Nov. 29, 1786. Several of his translation of German hymns appeared in the Moravian Hymn Book, 1789. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)  Go to person page >