George Hugh Bourne
BOURNE, George Hugh. b. St Paul’s Cray, Kent, 8 November 1840; d. Salisbury, 1 December 1925. Born the son of a clergyman, he was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (BA 1863; BCL 1866, DCL 1871). He took Holy Orders (deacon 1863, priest 1864), serving a curacy at Sandford-on Thames before becoming headmaster of St Andrew’s College, Chardstock (1866-74). The College moved to Salisbury as St Edmund’s College in 1874, and Bourne remained its headmaster (1874-85). For the school chapel he wrote Seven Post-Communion Hymns, privately printed in 1874. Additionally he was chaplain to Bishop Webb of Bloemfontein (1870-98), for whom he wrote a wedding hymn, ‘O Christ, the king of...
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