William Henry Parker

PARKER, William Henry. b. Basford, Nottingham, 4 March 1845; d. Basford, 2 December 1929. He was apprenticed as a machine-constructor in a lace-making factory, and later worked for an insurance company, of which he became head. He became an active member of Chelsea Street Baptist Church, Nottingham, and a teacher in the Sunday School. He published a book of verse, The Princess Alice and Other Poems (1882), and wrote hymns for Sunday School Anniversaries. Ten were printed in the Sunday School Hymnary (1905) (see JJ, p. 1686). Parker is known for two popular children’s hymns, ‘Holy Spirit, hear us’* and ‘Tell me the stories of...