Bromehead, Joseph, was born in 1748, and
after his graduation at Queen's College,
Oxford (B.A. 1768, M.A. 1771), he became
curate of Eckington, Derbyshire, remaining
there until his death, January 30, 1826.
His Melancholy Student reached a second
edition in 1776. He translated some of the
Psalms into English verse, and was editor
of the Eckington Collection, in which volume
the hymn beginning "Jerusalem, my
happy home," first appeared in its present
familiar form. From this collection of
hymns it passed into the Williams and Boden
Collection of 1801, and thence into
many modern hymnals--from which circumstance
several hymnologists have inferred
that Bromehead gave that hymn its
present form when he inserted it in the
Eckington Collection. See full discussion
of authorship under the hymn.
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