Hare, Julius Charles, M.A., was born in 1796, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and died in 1855. In conjunction with his brother Augustus William he published the celebrated Guesses at Truth. He also assisted Bp. Thirlwall in translating Niebuhr's History of Rome. His Essays, Sermons, and other publications were numerous and important. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Rector of Hurstmonceux, and Chaplain to the Queen. The following of his Psalm versions are in common use at the present time:—(1) "Lo, I come to do Thy will (Ps. xl.)” and (2) "Lord God, my Saviour, day and night (Ps. lxxxviii.) [No. 263.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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