1866
John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
John Mason Neale, English priest, scholar, and hymnwriter (born 1818)
John Mason Neale
Anglican priest and hymnwriter (1818–1866)
- Died
- 1866
John Mason Neale was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on St. Stephen's day, known as Boxing Day in the UK. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found positive reception in high-church Anglicanism and Western Rite Orthodoxy.