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Short Name: Robert P. Kerr
Full Name: Kerr, Robert P. (Robert Pollok), 1850-1923
Birth Year: 1850
Death Year: 1923

Born: 1850, Greensboro, Alabama.
Buried: Mount Olivet Cemetery , Nashville, Tennessee.

Kerr, Robert P., D.D., b. at Greensborough, Alabama, graduated at Union Theological Seminary, Va., 1873, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Lafayette, 1874. His Hymns of the Ages, a collection on conservative Evangelical lines which hardly justified its title, was published in N.Y., 1891. In it appeared his hymn,"Blessed country, home of Jesus," 1891, A later hymn, "Galilean King and Prophet," is dated 1901. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)


Tunes by Robert P. Kerr (12)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
BONA PATRIA (Kerr)Rev. R. P. Kerr (Composer)333451 35176 66232
BOWDITCHRev. R. P. Kerr (Composer)233433 22124 31321
CALVARY (Kerr)Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer)313214 32654 33543
ETERNAL ROCKRev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer)233371 43432 12321
[Galilean King and Prophet]Rev. R. P. Kerr, D.D. (Composer)435176 56512 34321
GREEN ISLANDRev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer)235361 24323 42333
IONA (Kerr)Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer)454515 45743 46654
[Jesus, my Savior! look on me] (Kerr)Rev. Robert P. Kerr, D.D. (Composer)332313 46232 16543
LAND OF HOLY LIGHTRev. Robert P. Kerr, D.D. (Composer)333534 42234 32345
[Lord of earth, Thy forming hand] (Kerr)Rev. R. P. Kerr (Composer)333432 12223 21233
MERRILL (Kerr)Rev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer)512314 13212 13213
SANQUHARRev. Robert P. Kerr (Composer)251353 25256 52567

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