1823 - 1900 Author of "There's a glorious work before us" Garrett, Charles, was born at Shaftesbury, 1823, entered the Wesleyan Ministry in 1849, President of the Conference in 1882, and died in 1900. His hymn, "There is a glorious work" (Temperance), is No. 959 in The Methodist Hymn Book, 1904.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Charles Garrett