Born: Cir­ca Feb­ru­a­ry 1840, Cred­it­on, De­von­shire, Eng­land.

Died: June 5, 1911, Dur­ham, Eng­land.

Ed­u­cat­ed at St. John’s Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1862, MA 1876), Bo­dy served as Cur­ate of St. James, Wed­nes­bu­ry (1863-5); Sedg­ley (1865-7); Cur­ate of Christ Church, Wol­ver­hamp­ton (1867-70); Rec­tor of Kirk­by-Mis­per­ton (1870-4); Ca­non of Dur­ham and Miss­ion­er of the Di­o­cese (1883); and Proc­tor for the Arch­dea­con­ry of Cleve­land (1880-5). In 1885, he re­ceived an Hon. D.D. from Dur­ham Un­i­ver­si­ty. His works in­clude:

• A re­vi­sion of Ed­ward Husband’s Mis­sion Hymn­al 1875
• A revision of the Dur­ham Miss­ion Hymn Book
• Life of Justifica­tion
• Life of Tempta­tion

Sources

Hymns

1. Father, Who Dost Thy Children Feed
2. Jesu! Speak to Me in Love