Born: No­vem­ber 12, 1852, Man­ches­ter, Eng­land.

Died: Jan­u­a­ry 23, 1941, High Sal­ving­ton, Worth­ing, Sus­sex, Eng­land.

Pseudonyms

• John Oxenham (from a char­ac­ter in the no­vel West­ward Ho!, by Charles Kings­ley)
• Julian Ross

Dunkerley at­tend­ed Old Traf­ford School and Vic­tor­ia Un­i­ver­si­ty in Man­ches­ter. As a bus­i­ness­man, he lived in France for a time, but upon re­turn­ing to Eng­land he took up writ­ing full time. He was an ex­pert mount­ain climb­er, and served as dea­con and teach­er at the Eu­ling Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church in Lon­don. Among his more than 40 nov­els and books of verse are:

• God’s Pri­son­er, 1898
• The Coil of Carne (New York: John Lane Com­pa­ny, 1911)
• Bees in Am­ber, 1913
• The King’s High-Way, 1916
• The Vision Splen­did, 1917
• The Wonder of Lourdes; What It Is and What It Means (Lon­don: Long­mans, Green and Co., 1924)
• Gentlemen—the King! (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: The Pil­grim Press, circa 1928)
• God’s Can­dle (Lon­don: Long­mans, Green and Co., 1929)
• Christ and the Third Wise Wan (Lon­don: Long­mans, Green and Co., circa 1934)

Sources

Hymns

1. All Labor Gained New Dignity (1925)
2. In Christ There Is No East or West
3. Lord God of Hosts, Whose Mighty Hand
4. ’Mid All the Traf­fic of the Ways
5. My Own Dear Land
6. O God, Within Whose Sight
7. Peace in Our Time, O Lord (1938)
8. Two Views, The