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Pendlebury Houghton › Recommendations

Short Name: Pendlebury Houghton
Full Name: Houghton, Pendlebury, 1758-1824
Birth Year: 1758
Death Year: 1824

Houghton, Pendlebury, 1758-1824. Minister at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich, and from 1812-1823 at Paradise Street Chapel, Liverpool. His hymn on The reunion of friends after death, "Blest be the hour when friends shall meet," is in Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, Martineau’s Hymns of Praise and Prayer, and J. P. Hopp’s Collection, 1877; Sometimes as:— "Blest hour when virtuous friends shall meet."

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)


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