Lyricist: Matthew Bridges

From HymnsWithoutWords

Matthew Bridges (1800 - 1894) was an English Hymnist and poet, born in Maldon in Essex in the East of England. Although raised in the Anglican tradition, he converted to Catholicism in 1848 through influence of the Oxford Movement led by John Henry Newman.

Bridges published a number of pose and poetry books, and a couple of hymn collections, Hymns of the Heart, 1851 and The Passion of Jesus, 1852.

Matthew Bridges lived in Quebec, Canada for several years, later returning to England to live in a small villa at the Convent of the Assumption at Sidmouth, Devon, where he died in 1894.