Born: March 4, 1845, Bas­ford, Not­ting­ham, Eng­land.

Died: De­cem­ber 2, 1929, Bas­ford, Not­ting­ham, Eng­land.

Parker, head of an in­sur­ance com­pa­ny, be­longed to the Chel­sea Street Bap­tist Church in Not­ting­ham. His works in­clude:

• The Prin­cess Alice, and Other Po­ems, 1822

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Lyrics

1. Children Know but Little
2. Gaily Comes the Hours of Glad­ness
3. Ho­ly Spir­it, Hear Us
4. How Sweet the Mess­age which Je­sus Has Sent
5. I Love to Hear You Tell
6. Jesus, I So Often Need Thee
7. Just in the Har­bor Sail­ing Are We
8. Tell Me the Stor­ies of Je­sus
9. Where the Rushes Bowed and Quiv­ered
10. Wilt Thou “Show Us the Fa­ther”
11. World May Beck­on from Ev­ery Side, The