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T. F. Middleton
1769 - 1822 Hymnal Number: d31 Author of "As o'er the past my memory strays" in Hymns for the Use of the Brethren in Christ Middleton, Thomas Fanshaw, D.D., son of Thomas Middleton, Rector of Redleston, in Derbyshire, was born there on Jan. 26, 1769. He was educated first by his father, then at Christ's Hospital, and finally at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge (B.A. in honours 1792). He was successively Curate of Gainsborough; Rector of Tansor, Northamptonshire, 1795; Vicar of St. Pancras, 1810; Archdeacon of Huntingdon, 1812; and the first bishop of Calcutta, 1814. He died in Calcutta, July 8, 1822. Bishop Middleton's publications were mainly confined to various Sermons and Charges, and a work on the Greek Article. In 1824 his Sermons and Charges were collected and published with a short Memoir, by Dr. H. R. Bonney. At p. xciv. the only hymn ascribed to him is given with the explanation that it was composed by the Bishop "and always sung on new year's day, by his desire." It is: "As o'er the past my mem'ry strays"(New Year), in 4 st. of 4 1. It was printed in the August number of Carus Wilson's Family Visitor, 1826; again in Hall's Mitre Hymnal, 1836, and later in several collections. Original text in Book of Praise, 1862, p. 238.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
T. F. Middleton
Luther J. Cox
1791 - 1870 Hymnal Number: d14 Author of "Home, home, sweet, sweet home" in Hymns for the Use of the Brethren in Christ Cox, Luther J. (December 27, 1791--July 26, 1870). He was born on a farm in Queen Anne's County, Maryland, and died in Hampden, Maryland, his home for the last twelve years of his life. The "Bard of the American Methodist Reformation," a layman and local preacher, one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, he engaged in mercantile pursuits throughout all of his active life. He was the author of several hymns which were popular with the early-day Methodist Protestants.
--Robert G. McCutchan, DNAH Archives
Luther J. Cox
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