HENRY FRANCIS LYTE BIOGRAPHY
HENRY FRANCIS LYTE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
LYTE, HENRY FRANCIS (1793-1847). —Hymn-writer, born at Ednam, near Kelso, of an ancient Somersetshire family, and ed. at Trinity Coll., Dublin, took orders, and was incumbent of Lower Brixham, Devonshire. He pub. Poems: chiefly religious (1833). He is chiefly remembered for his hymns, one of which, Abide with Me , is universally known and loved.