Born: Oc­to­ber 4, 1848, Port­is­head, North Som­er­set, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 7, 1929, Wey­bridge, Sur­rey, Eng­land.

Buried: Bath, Eng­land.

Weatherly at­tend­ed Her­e­ford Ca­thed­ral School and Brase­nose Coll­ege at Ox­ford. A judge, po­et, and law­yer, Wea­ther­ly is per­haps best re­mem­bered as the au­thor of se­cu­lar lyr­ics such as “Dan­ny Boy,” “Ros­es of Pi­car­dy,” and “Up From So­mer­set.”

Sources

Hymns

  1. The Ho­ly City

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