Born: Cir­ca Ju­ly 1854, Dis­trict of York, York­shire, Eng­land.

Educated at Cor­pus Christi Coll­ege, Cam­bridge, and or­dained an Ang­li­can cler­ic, Champ­ney served at St. An­drew the Less in Cam­bridge. He event­u­al­ly left the Church of Eng­land and be­came as­so­ci­at­ed with the Ply­mouth Breth­ren. As of 1881, he was liv­ing in Cam­bridge. In 1901, he was liv­ing in Ti­ver­ton, De­von­shire, and list­ed as a re­tired cler­gy­man and school­mas­ter.

Lyrics

1. Blessed Jesus, Thou Art Mine
2. Home, Bright Home
3. Jesus, Our Lord, with What Joy We Adore Thee
4. Praise the Lamb
5. Safe in Christ the Weak­est Child
6. Saved Through the Blood of Je­sus
7. ’Twas Not for Our Great Love to Thee