Born: March 25, 1817, Chard, Som­er­set, Eng­land.

Died: May 21, 1886, Brent­wood, Mid­dle­sex, Eng­land.

Educated at Mill Hill School and Un­i­ver­si­ty Coll­ege, Gunn held se­ver­al pas­tor­ates, be­gin­ning with Ba­sing­stoke in 1841, and clos­ing with Se­ven­oaks in 1881. He pub­lished var­i­ous works, chief­ly de­script­ive of the Non-Con­form­ist Church­es and their prin­ci­ples. Be­sides trans­lat­ing some of the ear­li­er Greek and La­tin hymns for the Ex­cel­si­or, ed­it­ed by James Ham­il­ton, he wrote ma­ny hymns.

Sources

Hymns

  1. Higher, High­er to the Cross
  2. Our Fa­thers Were High Mind­ed Men
  3. To Realms Be­yond the Sound­ing Sea
  4. We Want No Priest but Je­sus

Wanted