James Montgomery

James Montgomery (1771-1854) was a Scottish poet and hymn-writer, born at Irvine, son of a Moravian minister. He studied for the same profession, but was not licensed. After some years of various occupation he started journalism, and eventually produced a journal of his own, Sheffield Iris, 1794-1825. He was twice fined and imprisoned for seditious publications, but became a Conservative in 1832, a pensioner 1835, and died at Sheffield. Of his poetry most is forgotten, but "For ever with the Lord," and some dozen other hymns are still remembered.

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