Samuel John Stone
Samuel John Stone | |
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| Born | 25 April 1839 |
| Died | 19 November 1900 |
Samuel John Stone (25 April 1839 – 19 November 1900) was an English poet, hymnodist, and a priest in the Church of England.
Life and career[edit]
Stone was born on 25 April 1839 at his father's rectory in the parish of Whitmore, Staffordshire.[1] His father, William, was a Hebrew scholar and a botanist alongside his clerical work, who had published various works including a six volume religious epic and various compilations of hymns. Samuel had one sister, Sarah, who was born two years after him.[1] When Samuel was 13 the family moved to London where his father had obtained a curacy.[1]
Following his schooling at Charterhouse he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, gaining a BA in 1862 and being awarded an MA in 1872. During that period too he was awarded the 1866 prize for a poem on a religious subject, in this case on Sinai, but was then deprived of it since he was no longer on the college books.[2] He served a curacy in New Windsor from 1862 and while there wrote for his congregation the hymns of Lyra Fidelium, in which his most famous hymn, The Church's One Foundation, appears.[3] In 1870 he moved to St. Paul's, Haggerston where, in 1874, he became the vicar.[1][4] He remained at Haggerston for twenty years before taking up his final post at All Hallows' London Wall also in London.[1][5]
Stone died on 19 November 1900.
Select Bibliography[edit]
Poems[edit]
- The Knight of Intercession (1872)
- Sonnets of the Sacred Year (1875)
- Deare Chylde, a Parish Idyll (1877)
- Lays of Iona and other poems (1897)
- Poems and Hymns (1903)
Hymns[edit]
- Lyra Fidelium: Twelve Hymns on the Twelve Articles of the Apostles' Creed (1866) including "The Church's One Foundation".
- Hymns (1886)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Ellerton, F.G. (1903). "A Memoir of Samuel John Stone". In Stone, S.J. (ed.). Poems and Hymns. Methuen.
- ^ The Oxford University Calendar, 1868, p.93
- ^ "Samuel John Stone", The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, Canterbury Press, accessed August 15, 2020
- ^ "Samuel John Stone". Cyber Hymnal. Retrieved 3 July 2008.
- ^ "England, London Electoral Registers, 1847-1913: Division 4.-Broad Street.-1899". FamilySearch. 14 May 2014. p. 884. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
External links[edit]
Works by or about Samuel John Stone at Wikisource
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