George Wade Robinson

Irish poet
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroIrish poet
A.K.A.George Robinson
A.K.A.George Robinson
PlacesIreland
wasPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth1838
Death18 January 1877 (aged 39 years)
The details

Biography

George Wade Robinson (1838 – 23 January 1877) was a poet and hymnist from Cork, Ireland.

Biography

Robinson was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and New College, St. John's Wood, London. He entered the congregational ministry and was co-pastor at York Street Chapel in Dublin with William Urwick the elder. He then became pastor at St. John's Wood, Dudley, and at Union Street, Brighton. His best remembered poetry is in the hymn Loved with Everlasting Love with its chorus I am His and he His mine.

He died in Southampton on 23 January 1877.

Writings

  • Loveland and other poems 1871 ASIN: B0017UX9LO
  • Lays Of A Heart (1867) Kessinger Publishing Co (1 Oct 2008) ISBN 978-1-4370-6308-0
  • The philosophy of the atonement & other sermons (Everyman's library, ed. by Ernest Rhys. E.P. Dutton (1912) ASIN: B0008638BY
  • Iona, and other sonnets, etc ASIN: B0017UVJ48
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