Father of the human race

Author: William Bengo Collyer

William Bengo Collyer was born at Blackheath Hill, in 1782, and studied at Homerton College. Before completing his twentieth year he became pastor of a Congregational society at Peckham, continuing in that position through his life. He died in 1854. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1808. For many years he was one of the most popular Dissenting ministers in London. He published many hymns and some works on theology. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.… Go to person page >

Father of the human race. W. B. Collyer. [Holy Matrimony.] First published in his Services Suited to the Solemnization of Matrimony, &c, 1837, No. 10, in 3 stanzas of 4 lines, and thence unaltered into Spurgeon's Our Own Hymn Book, 1866, No. 1846, and others in Great Britain and America.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)