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W. Hope Davison

Short Name: W. Hope Davison
Full Name: Davison, W. Hope, 1827-1894
Birth Year: 1827
Death Year: 1894

Davison, W. Hope, was born at Sunderland, Nov. 27, 1827, and entered the Congregational Ministry in 1S52 as Pastor at Bolton, Lancashire. He published Psalms & Hymns, Bolton, various eds., the last in 1801; The Sabbath Hymnal for use in Schools; and The New Sabbath Hymnal, 1877. Also subsequently two Services of Song for Passiontide. From the latter his hymn "Jesus, King of glory, Throned above the sky" (S. S. Festival), in the Congregational Church Hymnal, 1887, is taken. He died in Aug. 1894.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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