H. W. Fox

Fox, Henry Watson, M.A., son of G. Townshend Fox, b. at Westoe, in the county of Durham, Oct. 1, 1817; educated at Rugby and Wadh. Coll., Ox.; B.A. 1839; and ordained in 1840. He sailed for S. India in 1841, and there founded the Telegu Mission of the Christian Missionary Society at Masulipatam; became Assistant Sec. to that Society in 1848, and died in Oct. the same year. His widely used hymn:—
I hear ten thousand voices singing. [Foreign Missions] was written for the Jubilee of the C.M.S. in 1848; and included in his Life, &c, in 8 stanzas of 8 lines, but is usually abbreviated as in the Christian Missionary Hymn Book.

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