Edward Caswall

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Edward Caswall

Edward Caswall (born July 15, 1814 in Yateley , Hampshire , † January 2, 1878 in Edgbaston , Birmingham ) was an English clergyman and writer . He's in the English -speaking world, especially as a writer of hymns known.

Life

Edward Caswall was a son of the Anglican clergyman Robert Clarke Caswall. His mother was a niece of the philosopher and bishop Thomas Burgess . Edward's older brother Henry Caswall also became a clergyman and a pioneer of the US Episcopal Church . His studies at Brasenose College in Oxford joined Edward Caswall 1836 with honors. In 1838 he was ordained anglican deacon and in 1839 he was ordained a priest . In 1840 he became curate at Stratford-sub-Castle near Salisbury . He resigned from office in 1847 and went to Ireland , where he converted to the Roman Catholic Church under the influence of John Henry Newman . In 1849 his wife died of cholera . The following year he entered Newman's Oratory at Edgbaston ( Birmingham Oratory ) and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1852. Most of his literary work, especially his translations of Latin hymns of the Catholic liturgy, originated in Edgbaston, where he died on January 2, 1878. John Henry Newman presided over his funeral service on January 7, 1878.

Works

  • The Art of Pluck. Being a Treatise after the Fashion of Aristotle , Satire, 1835 ( pseudonym Scriblerus Redivivus )
  • Sketches of Young Ladies
  • Morals from the Church Yard , 1838
  • Sermons on the Seen and the Unseen , 1846
  • The Child's Manual
  • Lyra Catholica , 1849
  • Hours at the Altar 1855
  • Verba Verbi; or, The Words of Jesus , 1855
  • The Masque of Mary, and Other Poems , 1858
  • Confraternity Manual of the Most Precious Blood , 1861
  • Love for the Holy Church , 1862
  • A May Pageant and Other Poems , 1865
  • The Catholic's Latin Instructor in the Principal Church Offices and Devotions

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ livingchurch.org
  2. ↑ year according to John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology , 1907 ( [1] ); the data differ in the sources.
personal data
SURNAME Caswall, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English clergyman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Yateley , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1878
Place of death Edgbaston , Birmingham