Lord Jesus, God and man, For love of man a child

Author: Henry W. Baker

Baker was the son of Vice Ad­mir­al Hen­ry Lo­raine Bak­er. He at­tend­ed Trin­i­ty Coll­ege at Cam­bridge, was or­dained in 1844, and be­came as­sist­ant cur­ate at Great Hock­es­ley, near Col­ches­ter, Es­sex. In 1851, he be­came Vic­ar of Monk­land Pri­ory Church in Here­ford­shire, Eng­land, where he served most of his life. Up­on his fa­ther’s death in 1859, Bak­er as­sumed the fam­i­ly bar­o­net­cy. From 1860 to 1877, he was ed­it­or-in-chief of the An­gl­ican Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, and con­tri­but­ed hymns, tunes, and trans­la­tions. This his­tor­ic hym­nal sold 60 mil­lion co­pies. Cyber Hymnal ------------------------------- Baker, Sir Henry Williams, Bart., eldest s… Go to person page >

Lord Jesus, God and Man. Sir H. W. Baker. [For a School Feast.] This hymn is dated 1852 in Biggs's Annotated edition of Hymns Ancient & Modern, but its first publication is traced only to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1861. It has a slight resemblance to Faber's “O Jesu, God and Man," which was published in his Jesus and Mary, in 1849. Sir H. W. Baker's hymn is in extensive use in Great Britain and America. It is sometimes given as "Lord Jesu, God and Man."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)