Born: De­cem­ber 29, 1832, South­wark, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Died: Oc­to­ber 26, 1909, Speld­hurst, Kent, Eng­land.

Pott at­tend­ed Brase­nose Coll­ege, Ox­ford, Eng­land (BA 1854, MA 1857), and took Ho­ly Or­ders in 1856. He served as Cur­ate at Bis­hops­worth, Glou­cester­shire, 1858-1868; Ard­ling­ly, Berk­shire, 1858-1861; Tice­hurst, Sus­sex, 1861-1866; and as Rec­tor at Nor­hill, Bed­ford­shire, 1866. Pott wrote sev­er­al orig­in­al hymns, but is bet­ter known as a hymn trans­lat­or. Som­etimes his work is in­cor­rect­ly at­trib­ut­ed to “Alfred” Pott.

Pott served on the com­mit­tee which com­piled Hymns An­cient and Mo­dern, and ed­it­ed Hymns Fit­ted to the Or­der of Com­mon Pray­er (1861) and The Free Rhy­thm Psalte­r (1898). He re­tired due to deaf­ness in 1891.

Sources

Hymns

  1. Angel Voic­es, Ev­er Sing­ing
  2. Lift Up Your Heads, Eternal Gates

Translations

  1. Shepherd Now Was Smit­ten, The
  2. Strife is O’er, the Bat­tle Done, The
  3. Year Is Gone Be­yond Re­call, The

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