1707, Hod­dles­den (near Dar­wen), Lan­ca­shire, Eng­land.

Harwood’s ear­ly train­ing was as a hand-loom weav­er, but he sub­se­quent­ly be­came a pro­fes­sion­al mu­si­cian in Li­ver­pool. His setting of Al­ex­an­der Pope’s The Dy­ing Christ­ian was enor­mous­ly pop­u­lar at one time, and was wide­ly per­formed at fun­er­als. Har­wood’s other works in­clude:

• A Set of Hymns and Psalm Tunes (Lon­don: 1781)
• A Se­cond Set of Hymns and Psalm Tunes (Ches­ter, Eng­land: 1786)

1. Darwen