George Bett Blanchard

BLANCHARD, George Bett. b. Ulceby, near Immingham, Lincolnshire, 1856, date unknown; d. Hull, 17 November 1927. Blanchard lived for most of his life in Hull, where he was an active member of Waltham Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, serving as Sunday-School Superintendent, Choirmaster, and Organist. In 1892 he began to supply his own hymns for Sunday-School Anniversaries, two of which were printed in Sunday School Praise (1958): ‘Listen to the voice of Jesus’*, and the most unusual ‘With a shout of bold derision’*, on David and Goliath. The former is also found in The School Hymn-Book of the Methodist Church...