Hail Mary, hail, The western sky

Author: H. N. Oxenham

Oxenham, Henry Nutcombe, M.A., was born at Harrow in 1829, educated at Harrow, and Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1850, M.A. 1854). He was in 1856 curate of St. Bartholomew, Cripplegate, London. After joining the Church of Rome in 1857 he was for some time master at St. Edmund's College near Ware, and then at the Oratory School, Birmingham. He died March 23, 1888. His hymns and translations are principally in his Manual of Devotions for the Blessed Sacrament, 1854, and his Sentence of Kaires, 1854 (2nd ed. 1867). [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)  Go to person page >