William Henry Gill

GILL, William Henry. b. Marsala, Sicily, 24 October 1839; d. Worthing, Sussex, 27 June 1923. The son of a Manx family, he was educated at King William’s College, Castletown, Isle of Man. He worked as a civil servant in London for forty years, and in that time transcribed and published Manx National Songs (1896) and A Manx Wedding and Other Songs (Abingdon, 1900). He wrote a number of hymns, including ‘Father of all, thy never-dying love’. The best known is ‘The Manx Fishermen’s Evening Hymn’, beginning ‘Hear us, O Lord, from heaven thy dwelling-place’*. See also ‘Isle of Man...