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Baker, (Sir) Henry Williams
b: May 27, 1821; London
d: February 12, 1877; Monkland, Herefordshire
Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1844, MA 1847)
- Took Holy Orders (deacon 1844, priest 1846)
Highlights & Accomplishments
- Served as parish priest at Great Horkesley, Essex then at Monkland, Herefordshire (1851)
- Succeeded to the Baronetcy (a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown) on the death of his father (1859)
- Known to be a fine hymn writer and translator, as well as a skillful adapter of other writers’ hymns
Hymns included in the Seventh-Day Adventist Hymnal
O Praise Ye the Lord, SDAH 20
Of the Father’s Love Begotten, SDAH 116
The King of Love My Shepherd Is, SDAH 197
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JRW. “Henry Williams Baker.” The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press, accessed July 31, 2017, http://www.hymnology.co.uk/h/henry-williams-baker.
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