Hymn / written by the Bishop of Wakefield and set to music by Arthur Sullivan (by request) ; to be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales ... upon Sunday the Twentieth Day of June 1897, as forming part of the service authorised to be used on that day.

Record ID: 
68436
Accession number: 
GSC
Creator: 
Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.
Title: 
Hymn / written by the Bishop of Wakefield and set to music by Arthur Sullivan (by request) ; to be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales ... upon Sunday the Twentieth Day of June 1897, as forming part of the service authorised to be used on that day.
Uniform title: 
O King of kings
Published: 
London : Printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1897.
Notes: 

The tune called "Bishopgarth."
Text by W. Walsham How--Cf. Jacobs.
"To be used immediately before Morning and Evening Prayer, or after the Third Collect, or immediately before the Office for the Holy Communion"--p. [1].
Three copies.
"This copy of 'O King of kings' came to me in the copy of The window in the decorated green cloth covers, which bore the signature and bookplate of the Hon. Victoria Grosvenor--R.A. April 1965"--slip inserted in one of the copies.

Associated names: 

How, W. Walsham.
Allen, Reginald, former owner.
Grosvenor, Victoria, former owner.
Hopkinson, Cecil, donor.