John Sterling

Sterling was born at Kames Castle, Bute, July 20, 1806, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Sep. 18, 1844.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907

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Sterling, J., p. 1595, ii. (Under "When up to nightly skies," &c.) Another of his hymns which was given in the American Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 and Martineau's Hymns of Praise and Prayer, 1873, No. 31, "0 Source divine and Life of all" (Reverence and Love), has passed into a few modern American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. It is dated 1840.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)