Christian Henry Bateman
Born: August 9, 1813, Wyke (near Halifax), Scotland.
Died: July 27, 1889, Carlisle, England.
Bateman studied in the Moravian Church, and ministered there for a time. In
1843, he became minister of Richmond Place Congregational Church, Edinburgh,
Scotland. After 1846, he was successively Congregational minister at Hopton,
Yorkshire, and Reading, Berkshire. He then took Holy Orders in the Church of
England and served as curate of St. Luke’s in Jersey (1869-1871); vicar of All
Saints, Childshill, Middlesex (1871-1875); and curate of St. John’s Penymyndd,
Hawarden (1877-1884).
Bateman's hymns appeared mainly in The Sacred Song Book
(Edinburgh, Scotland: Gall and Inglis), subsequently published as Sacred
Melodies for Children and as 200 Sacred Melodies for Sunday Schools and
Families; and The Children’s Hymnal and Christian Year (London:
J. Hodges, 1872).
Hymns