Pollock, Thomas Benson, M.A., was born in 1836, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863, where he also gained the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for English Verse in 1855. Taking Holy Orders in 1861, he was Curate of St. Luke's, Leek, Staffordshire; St. Thomas's, Stamford Hill, London; and St. Alban's, Birmingham. Mr. Pollock is a most successful writer of metrical Litanies. His Metrical Litanies for Special Services and General Use, Mowbray, Oxford, 1870, and other compositions of the same kind contributed subsequently to various collections, have greatly enriched modern hymnbooks. To the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, Mr. Pollock contributed two hymns, “We are soldiers of Christ, Who is mighty to save… Go to person page >
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Display Title: The Father's Sole Begotten SonFirst Line: The Father's sole begotten SonTune Title: TRINITY COLLEGEAuthor: Anonymous; Thomas B. PollockMeter: LMSource: Hymns Ancient and Modern (HAM), 1889, and recast by the compilers of HAM in 1904
Display Title: The Father's sole-begotten SonFirst Line: The Father's sole-begotten SonTune Title: TRINITY COLLEGEAuthor: Anonymous; Thomas Benson Pollock, 1836-1896Meter: L.M.Date: 2010Subject: Hymns for the Church Year | EpiphanySource: 10th-13th century, Latin; Translation: Editors of Hymns Ancient and Modern