Jesu, Thy blessed brow is torn. W. Blunt. [Good Friday.] Concerning this hymn Miller says, "The Bishop of Salisbury has recently informed Earl Nelson that he received this hymn about the year 1841 from the Rev. R. W. [Walter] Blunt, at that time a curate in the East of London” (Singers and Songs, 1869, p. 585). The hymn appeared in the Salisbury Hymn Book, 1857, No. 85, in two parts, Pt. ii. beginning "Jesu, the King of Glory Thou," and was repeated in the Sarum Hymnal, 1868, No. 126. It was evidently suggested by the " Salve mundi salutare," p. 989, i. Mr. Blunt was curate of St. Botolph-without-Aldgate, in 1841, and became rector of Bicknor, diocese of Canterbury, 1858. He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, B.A. 1835. Born Dec. 9, 1809. He died in July, 1882.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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