Feb­ru­a­ry 10, 1819, Bris­tol Road, Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land.

March 4, 1906, Lew­is­ham, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Gill’s par­ents be­longed to Eng­lish Pres­by­ter­i­an fam­i­lies which, like ma­ny others, had be­come Un­i­tar­i­an in their doc­trine. He was ed­u­cat­ed at King Ed­ward’s Gram­mar School un­der Dr. Jeune, af­ter­wards Bi­shop of Pe­ter­bo­rough. He left the school in 1838, and would have gone to the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ox­ford, but was pre­vent­ed by his he­red­i­tary Un­i­tar­i­an­ism (long since giv­en up), which for­bade sub­script­ion to the Ar­ti­cles of the Church of Eng­land then ne­ces­sary for ent­rance to the Un­i­ver­si­ty. This con­strained him to lead the life of an iso­lat­ed stu­dent, in which he gave him­self chief­ly to his­tor­ic­al and the­o­log­ic­al sub­jects. He wrote over 200 hymns to­tal.

• Julian, pp. 421-3, 1565, 1640-1
• Nutter, p. 411

1. Ah, Tremb­lers, Faint­ing and For­lorn
2. Ah! Where­fore Fall My Tears So Fast!
3. Alas the Out­er Emp­ti­ness
4. Alas These Pil­grims Faint and Worn
5. Alone with Thee, with Thee Alone
6. And Didst Thou, Lord, Our Sor­rows Take?
7. Behold the Ev­er­last­ing Son
8. Break, New­born Year
9. Bright Pre­sence! May My Soul Have Part
10. Bright Thy Pre­sence When It Break­eth
11. Day Di­vine! When Sud­den Stream­ing
12. Dear Lord and Mas­ter Mine
13. Dear Lord, Thou Art Not Sor­ry
14. Dear Lord, Thou Bringe­st Back the Morn
15. Dear Lord, Thy Light Thou Dost Not Hide
16. Do We On­ly Give Thee Heed
17. Embrace Your Full Salva­tion
18. Farewell, De­lightful Day
19. Father, Glor­i­ous with All Splen­dor
    • Father, Thine Elect Who Lov­est
20. Father, Thou Hast Not on Me
21. Full Ma­ny a Smile, Full Ma­ny a Song
22. Glory of the Spring How Sweet!, The
23. Happy Fields, the Hea­ven­ly Host, The
24. He Who Suns and Worlds Up­hold­eth
25. How Can I, Lord, Abide with Thee?
26. How, Lord, Shall Vows of Ours Be Sweet?
27. I Think of Thee, My God, by Night
28. Is Earth Too Fair, Is Youth Too Bright?
29. Is Not My Spir­it Filled with Thine
30. Let Bold­er Hearts the Strife Re­quire
31. Lift Thy Song among the Na­tions
32. Lord, Am I Pre­cious in Thy Sight
33. Lord, Comes this Bid­ding Strange to Us?
34. Lord, Dost Thou Ne’er Thy Serv­ants Bless?
35. Lord, from Thee, What Grace and Glo­ry
36. Lord, from These Tremb­ling Souls of Ours
37. Lord God, by Whom All Change Is Wrought
38. Lord God of Old, Who Went­est
39. Lord, if Our Dwell­ing Place Thou Art
40. Lord, in This Aw­ful Fight with Sin
41. Lord, in Thy Peo­ple Thou Dost Dwell
42. Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Dwell­ing Place
43. Lord, Thou Wouldst Have Us Like to Thee
44. Lord, Thy Gra­cious Voice Hath Spok­en
45. Lord, When I All Things Would Pos­sess
46. Lord, When We Come at Thy Dear Call
47. May We Not, Fa­ther, Meet­ly Mourn?
48. Methought My Soul Had Learned to Love
49. My God, I Do Not Flee from Thee
50. My God, My Ma­jes­ty Di­vine
51. Not, Lord, Thy An­cient Works Alone
52. Not Yet I Love My Lord
53. Not Yet, Ye Peo­ple of his Grace
54. O Dreadful Glo­ry That Doth Make
55. O Height That Doth All Height Ex­cel
56. O Ho­ly Ghost, Who Down Dost Come
57. O Mean May Seem This House of Clay
58. O Mys­te­ry of Love Di­vine
59. O Not Alone in Sad­dest Plight
60. O Not to Fill the Mouth of Fame
61. O Not upon Our Wait­ing Eyes
62. O Saints of Old, Not Yours Alone
    • Not On­ly When As­cends the Song
63. O Smitten Soul That Cares and Con­flicts Wring
64. O Spir­it, Sweet and Pure
65. O Time, Ne’er Resteth Thy Swift Wing
66. O Wherefore Hath My Spir­it Leave?
67. O’er Full­ness of Grace, Blest Bri­tain Re­joice
68. Our God, Our God, Thou Shin­est Here
69. Savior, Needs the World No Long­er?
70. Savior, Who from Death Didst Take
71. Sweet Spir­it, Would Thy Breath Di­vine
72. Thy Hap­py Ones a Strain Begin
73. Too Dearly, Lord, Hast Thou Re­deemed
74. Unto Thy Rest Re­turn
75. Walk with the Lord Along the Road
76. We Come un­to Our Fa­thers’ God
77. We Triumph in the Glor­i­ous Grace
78. We Would Not Dare Their Bliss to Mourn
79. What Sweet­ness on thine Earth Doth Dwell
80. When Shall I, Lord, a Jour­ney Take
81. Whence This Flam­ing Joy That Maketh?
82. Wherefore Faint and Fear­ful Ev­er
83. With Sin I Would Not Make Abode
    • Lord, in the Full­ness of My Might
84. Would the Spir­it More Com­plete­ly?
85. Ye Child­ren of the Fa­ther
86. Ye of the Fa­ther Loved
87. Ye Peo­ple of the Lord, Draw Near
88. Ye Souls for Whom the Sav­ior Died
89. Ye Souls, the Fa­ther’s Very Own