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Richard Mant
1776-1848
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Born: February 12, 1776, Southampton, England.
Died: November 2, 1848, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland.
Mant was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A. 1799). At Oxford, he won the Chancellor’s prize for an English essay; he was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. After taking Holy Orders, he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places; vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813; rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London, 1816, and East Horsley, 1818; Bishop of Killaloe, 1820; of Down and Connor, 1823; and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811.
Mant is known chiefly through his translations from Latin. , in his Notes on Church Hymns, 1881, said:
Mant had little knowledge of hymns, and merely took those of the existing Roman Breviary as he found them; consequently he had to omit many, and so to alter others that they have in fact become different hymns; nor was he always happy in his manipulation of them. But his book has much good taste and devout feeling, and has fallen into undeserved neglect.
Mant’s other works include:
- The Country Curate, 1804
- Poems in three Parts, 1806
- The Slave, 1807
- The Book of Psalms as an English Metrical Version, 1824
- The Book of The Holydays of the Church, 1831
- The Gospel Miracles in a series of Poetical Sketches, 1832
- The British Months, 1836
- Ancient Hymns, 1837
- History of the Church in Ireland, 1840
- The Happiness of the Blessed Dead, 1847
- Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary, 1871
Hymns:
- Before Thy Mercy’s Throne
- Blessed Be the Lord Most High
- Bright the Vision That Delighted
- Father of All, from Whom We Trace
- For These Who First Proclaimed Thy Word
- For Thy Dear Saints
- God My King, Thy Might Confessing
- Lo, the Day the Lord Hath Made
- Lord, Thy Glory Fills the Heaven
- Lord, to Thee I Make My Vows
- My Trust Is in the Highest Name
- No! When He Bids Me Seek His Face
- Oft as in God’s Own House We Sit
- Put Off Thy Shoes, ’Tis Holy Ground
- Reign, Jehovah, King Supreme
- Savior of Men, Our Hope and Rest
- See the Destined Day Arise
- There Is a Dwelling Place Above
- Thy House Each Day of Hallowed Rest
- Thy Listening Ear, O Lord, Incline
- To God My Earnest Voice I Raise
- To Jehovah Hymn the Lay
- We Bless Thee for Thy Church, O Lord
- We Deem and Own It, Lord, a Proof
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