Reginald Thomas Brooks

BROOKS, Reginald Thomas (‘Peter’). b. Wandsworth, London, 30 June 1918; d. Harrow, Middlesex, 12 October 1985. He was a student at Mansfield College, Oxford. He was ordained into the Congregational ministry at Skipton, Yorkshire, later moving to Bradford, Yorkshire. In 1950 he joined the religious broadcasting department of the BBC. He is usually known as ‘Peter Brooks’, a name he preferred (see the Companion to RS, 1999, p. 764). Two of his hymns have become well known: ‘O Christ the Lord, O Christ the King’* and ‘Thanks to God, whose word was spoken’*. The latter is by far the best known of his hymns in the USA and Canada, and in Australia. Others include ‘Spirit of God, in all that’s...