1799 - 1879 Person Name: Latrobe Author of "Return, my soul, and sweetly rest" in Hymns of the Faith La Trobe, John Antes, M.A., grandson of B. La Trobe, and son of C. I. La Trobe, was born in London in 1799, and educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1826, and M.A. 1829. Having taken Holy Orders in the Church of England, he was appointed Incumbent of St. Thomas, Kendal, in 1840, and retained the same to 1865. In 1858 he was nominated Hon. Canon of Carlisle Cathedral. He died in 1879. His musical works include The Music of the Church, 1831, and his poetical, Sacred Lays and Lyrics, 1850. He also published a Selection of Hymns, including Versions of Psalms arranged under Subjects, so as to form A Small Body of Divinity, and suited for Private, Social, and Public Worship. Lond., Seeleys, 1841.
This selection contains many of his own hymns. In 1852 a 2nd edition was published with authors' names. "How strange is heavenly love" (The love of God), “O bring to Jehovah [the Lord] your tribute of praise " (Psalms l), are two of the very few of his hymns in common use.
[George Arthur Crawford, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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