Short Name: | H. W. Fox |
Full Name: | Fox, H. W. (Henry Watson), 1817-1848 |
Birth Year: | 1817 |
Death Year: | 1848 |
Fox, Henry Watson, M.A., son of G. Townshend Fox, b. at Westoe, in the county of Durham, Oct. 1, 1817; educated at Rugby and Wadh. Coll., Ox.; B.A. 1839; and ordained in 1840. He sailed for S. India in 1841, and there founded the Telegu Mission of the Christian Missionary Society at Masulipatam; became Assistant Sec. to that Society in 1848, and died in Oct. the same year. His widely used hymn:—
I hear ten thousand voices singing. [Foreign Missions] was written for the Jubilee of the C.M.S. in 1848; and included in his Life, &c, in 8 stanzas of 8 lines, but is usually abbreviated as in the Christian Missionary Hymn Book.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Texts by H. W. Fox (2)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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I hear ten thousand voices singing | Rev. H. W. Fox (Author) | English | 12 |
Ich hör vieltausend Stimmen singen | H. W. Fox (Author) | German | 1 |