Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

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Folliott Sandford Pierpoint October 7, 1835 - 1917 was a hymnist and poet.

Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating in 1871 with classical honors. Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout Tractarian. He taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the south-west.

He published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, republished, 1878, as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman’s Companion, The Lyra Eucharistica, etc.

His most famous hymn is For the Beauty of the Earth.

[edit] References

Julian, John (June, 1907). A Dictionary of Hymnology. London: John Murray, 895. 

Bailey, Albert Edward (1950). The Gospel in Hymns. New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 367. 

Bethany Lutheran College. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Handbook. Retrieved on 2007-02-06.