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William Whiting (1 November 1825 – 3 May 1878) was an English writer and hymnist, best known for his 1860 hymn "Eternal Father, Strong to Save". Life [ edit ] He was born in Kensington , England , and educated at Clapham [1] and Winchester College .
Origin. The original hymn was written in 1860 by William Whiting, an Anglican churchman from Winchester, United Kingdom.Whiting grew up near the ocean on the coasts of England and at the age of thirty-five had felt his life spared by God when a violent storm nearly claimed the ship he was travelling on, instilling a belief in God's command over the rage and calm of the sea.
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Whiting, William, 1825-1878. Birth Year: 1825. Death Year: 1878. William Whiting was born in Kensington, November 1, 1825, and was educated at Clapham and Winchester Colleges. He was later master of Winchester College Choristers' School, where he wrote Rural Thoughts and Other Poems, 1851. He died at Winchester.
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WHITING, Miss Lilian, journalist, poet and story-writer, was born in Niagara Falls. N. Y., the daughter of Hon. L. D. and Mrs. Lucretia Clement Whiting. Her ancestry runs back to Rev. William Whiting, the first Unitarian minister of Concord, Mass., tn the early part of the seventeenth century. Her paternal grandmother was born Mather, and was a ...
Lorenzo D. Whiting (father), Cotton Mather. Signature. Lilian Whiting (October 3, 1847 – April 30, 1942) was an American journalist, editor, and author of poetry and short stories. She served as literary editor of the Boston Evening Traveller (1880–1890), editor-in-chief of the Boston Budget (1890–93), and afterward, spent much of her ...
William Whiting (1825 – 1851) was an English poet and hymnist born in Kensington, London. He was educated at Clapham and Winchester Colleges. He was appointed as master of Winchester College Choristers’ School. Whiting published two poetry collections: Rural Thoughts (1851) and Edgar Thorpe, or the Warfare of Life (1867). He died at Winchester.
William Whiting (November 1, 1825 – May 3, 1878) was an English writer and hymnist, best known for his 1860 hymn Eternal Father, Strong to Save (often called "The Navy Hymn", used by the Royal Navy for church services and later adopted by the USN). He was born in Kensington, England, and educated at Chapham and Winchester College. Because of ...
