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HENRY FRANCIS LYTE (1793-1847)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:FRANCIS See also:LYTE (1793-1847)  , See also:Anglican divine and hymn-writer, was See also:born near See also:Kelso on the 1st of See also:June 1793, and was educated at See also:Enniskillen school and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin . He took orders in 1815, and for some See also:time held a curacy near See also:Wexford . Owing to infirm See also:health he came to See also:England, and after several changes settled, in 1823, in the See also:parish of See also:Brixham . In 1844 his health finally gave way; and he died at See also:Nice on the loth of See also:November 1847 . See also:Lyte's first See also:work was Tales in See also:Verse illustrative of Several of the Petitions in the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer (1826), which was written at See also:Lymington and was commended by See also:Wilson in the Noctes Ambrosianae . He next published (1833) a See also:volume of Poems, chiefly Religious, and in 1834 a little collection of See also:psalms and See also:hymns entitled The Spirit of the Psalms . After his See also:death, a volume of Remains with a memoir was published, and the poems contained in this, with those in Poems, chiefly Religious, were afterwards issued in one volume (1868) .

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