Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (7 October 1835 – 1917) was a

hymnodist A hymnwriter (or hymn writer, hymnist, hymnodist, hymnographer, etc.) is someone who writes the text, music, or both of hymns. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the composition of hymns dates back to before the time of David, who composed many of ...

and poet. Born at Spa Villa, Bath, England, he was educated at

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

. Pierpoint was a classics schoolmaster and a devout

Tractarian The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of O ...

. He taught at Somersetshire College, spending most of his life in Bath and the south-west. He published The Chalice of Nature and Other Poems, republished, 1878, as Songs of Love, The Chalice of Nature and Lyra Jesu. He also contributed hymns to the Churchman's Companion, The Lyra Eucharistica, etc. His most famous hymn is

For the Beauty of the Earth "For the Beauty of the Earth" is a Christian hymn by Folliott S. Pierpoint (1835-1917). History Pierpoint was 29 at the time he wrote this hymn; he was mesmerized by the beauty of the countryside that surrounded him. It first appeared in 1864 ...

which he wrote in 1864, aged 29. Pierpoint died in 1917, at the age of 82.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pierpoint, Folliott English hymnwriters People from Bath, Somerset 1835 births Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge 1917 deaths Christian hymnwriters 19th-century English musicians Tractarians English Anglo-Catholics Anglican poets Anglo-Catholic writers