James Thomas East
EAST, James Thomas. b. Kettering, Northamptonshire, 28 January 1860; d. Blackburn, Lancashire, 28 May 1937. He entered the Wesleyan Methodist ministry in 1886. He served in circuits at Glasgow, Daventry, Peterborough, Redruth, Frome, Driffield, Cradley (Staffordshire), Neath, Clayton-le-Moors (Lancashire), Rochdale, and Blackburn.
East is known for the popular children’s hymn, ‘Wise men, seeking Jesus’*, which appeared in the Wesleyan Methodist School Hymnal (1911), and in many subsequent Methodist publications, and in other Free Church books. It was popular in Canada, and is also found in some American...
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