Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

PIERPOINT, Folliott Sandford. b. Bath, 7 October 1835; d. Newport, Gwent, 10 March 1917. He was educated at the Grammar School, Bath, and Queens’ College, Cambridge (BA 1857). He became a classics teacher at Somersetshire College. He later moved to Babbacombe, Devon, supporting himself by occasional teaching and writing. He published The Chalice of Nature, and other Poems (Bath and London, 1855) and Songs of Love, the Chalice of Nature, and Lyra Jesu (2nd Edition 1858). He contributed to Lyra Eucharistica (2nd Edition, 1864), edited by Orby Shipley*, the hymn by which he is remembered, ‘For the beauty of the...