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Hymns / Music :: Richard Mant

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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:

  1. Before Thy Mercy’s Throne
  2. Blessed Be the Lord Most High
  3. Bright the Vision That Delighted
  4. Father of All, from Whom We Trace
  5. For These Who First Proclaimed Thy Word
  6. For Thy Dear Saints
  7. God My King, Thy Might Confessing
  8. Lo, the Day the Lord Hath Made
  9. Lord, Thy Glory Fills the Heaven
  10. Lord, to Thee I Make My Vows
  11. My Trust Is in the Highest Name
  12. No! When He Bids Me Seek His Face
  13. Oft as in God’s Own House We Sit
  14. Put Off Thy Shoes, ’Tis Holy Ground
  15. Reign, Jehovah, King Supreme
  16. Savior of Men, Our Hope and Rest
  17. See the Destined Day Arise
  18. There Is a Dwelling Place Above
  19. Thy House Each Day of Hallowed Rest
  20. Thy Listening Ear, O Lord, Incline
  21. To God My Earnest Voice I Raise
  22. To Jehovah Hymn the Lay
  23. We Bless Thee for Thy Church, O Lord
  24. We Deem and Own It, Lord, a Proof

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