Surname: Hull Forename(s): John Dawson b. 5 June 1801. d. 31 December 1886. Nationality: Irish. VIAF.
Poet, hymn writer, and clergyman. Born in Donaghadee, Down, Ireland. Educated at Trinity
College Dublin. Married Alicia Benson on 22 July 1828. Vicar of Wickhambrook, Newmarket,
from 1859. Poetry volumes include Lays of Many Years (1854), Hymns and Spiritual Songs for All Hours (1860). Biographical information: Reilly, Mid-Victorian Poetry, p. 237; Boase 5: 726; John Dawson Hull,Ancestry. (AC)