Henry James Buckoll

BUCKOLL, Henry James. b. Siddington, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, 9 September 1803; d. Rugby, Warwickshire, 6 June 1871. The son of a clergyman, he was educated at Rugby School and Queen’s College, Oxford (BA 1826), returning to Rugby as a schoolmaster, and remaining there for the rest of his life. He is thought to have been the first editor of the Rugby School Collection of Hymns, and in 1839 he edited a hymnbook for Rugby Parish Church. He published Hymns Translated from the German (1842), using hymns taken from C.C.J. Bunsen*’s Versuch eines allgemeinen evangelischen Gesang- und Gebetbuchs (Hamburg, 1833). He was the co-editor of Psalms and Hymns for the Use of Rugby School Chapel...