Author talk:Matthew Bridges

Sources

Name: Matthew Bridges
Birth - Death: 1800-1894 Source Citation:

• Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (Alli)
• The Poets of the Church. A series of biographical sketches of hymn- writers with notes on their hymns. By Edwin F. Hatfield. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Co., 1884. (PoChrch)
• Lutheran Cyclopedia. Revised edition. Edited by Erwin L. Lueker. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1975. (LuthC)

He's in Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology. Background given there is youngest son of John Bridges of Wallington House, Surrey, brother of the Rev. Charles Bridges (ACAD BRGS812C). Born at the Friars, Maldon, Essex 14 July 1800. That means he is the Magdalen Hall student in Alumni Oxonienses. Catholic convert. Charles Matthews (talk) 06:35, 13 June 2020 (UTC)