{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-artist-js","path":"/artists/grant-robert-602cbda12f21ae0015d269b7","result":{"data":{"strapiArtist":{"name":"Grant, Robert","bio":"Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts).\n\nOf Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where he sponsored a bill to remove civil restrictions on Jews. Grant was knighted in 1834. His hymn texts were published in the Christian Observer (1806-1815), in Elliot’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and posthumously by his brother as Sacred Poems (1839).","externalUrl":null,"songs":[],"lyrics":[{"id":"602cbe302f21ae0015d269b8","title":"O worship the king","pubyear":1833}],"translations":[],"picture":null}},"pageContext":{"id":"602cbda12f21ae0015d269b7"}}}