Richard V. Yates

Yates, Richard Vaughan, 1785-1856. A Liverpool merchant and philanthropist, author of a hymn on The Benefit of Affliction, "O God, to thee my sinking soul," in Martineau’s Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, and the enlarged edition of W. J. Fox's Collection, 1873.
[Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)