Henry Twells
Rev. Canon Henry Twells was an Anglican clergyman, hymn writer and poet. His best known hymn was At Even, Ere the Sun Was Set. He also wrote the wellknown poem, Times Paces that depicts the apparent speeding up of time as we become older. A younger brother, Edward Twells, was the first Bishop of Bloemfontein.
Henry Twells was born in Ashted, Birmingham onMarch 1823. He went to school at King Edwards School, Birmingham and then to Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, from where he graduated B.A. in 1848 and M.A. in 1851. OnMay 1875, he married Ellen Jane Tompson, daughter of the Rev. Matthew Carrier Tompson, for fifty years Vicar of Alderminster, near StratfordonAvon. He died in Bournemouth onJanuary 1900.
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