Born: Ju­ly 25, 1788, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 11, 1871, Rei­gate dis­trict, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Son of a Lon­don trades­man, Jud­kin was ed­u­cat­ed at Cai­us Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1815, MA 1815), main­ly at the ex­pense of Sir Wil­liam Cur­tis, an al­der­man of the Ci­ty of Lon­don. Af­ter tak­ing Ho­ly Or­ders in 1816, he held var­i­ous cur­a­cies, and in 1828 be­came min­is­ter of Som­ers Cha­pel, St. Pan­cras, Lon­don. His works in­clude:

• Church and Home Psalm­o­dy; be­ing a Col­lect­ion of Psalms from the Old and New Ver­sions, and Orig­in­al Hymns, for Con­gre­ga­tion­al and Do­mes­tic Pur­pos­es, 1831
• Twelve Signs of the Times
• Popish Ag­gress­ion
• Bygone Moods, a vol­ume of son­nets

Sources

Hymns

1. Enthroned Is Je­sus Now
2. Ho­ly Spirit, Fount of Blessing
3. How Shall I Pray, O Lord, to Thee
4. We Are Journeying to a Place
5. When in the Dark and Cloudy Day