Folliott Sandford Pierpoint
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Folliott Sandford Pierpoint 7 October 1835 – 1917 was a hymnist and poet.
Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge
. Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout Tractarian. He taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the south-west.
He published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, republished, 1878, as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman’s Companion, The Lyra Eucharistica, etc.
His most famous hymn is For the Beauty of the Earth
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Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge
Queens' College, Cambridge
Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...
. Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout Tractarian. He taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the south-west.
He published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, republished, 1878, as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman’s Companion, The Lyra Eucharistica, etc.
His most famous hymn is For the Beauty of the Earth
For the Beauty of the Earth
"For the Beauty of the Earth" is a Christian hymn by Folliott S. Pierpoint .Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerised by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him...
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