Career
Musically he was based in one of the many non-conformist chapels in the Blackburn Valley, (see Blackburn Brook), near Sheffield. His style is 19th-century classical. He is also credited as being the magistrate who made cockfighting and bull-baiting illegal in Yorkshire (Gatty,1884).
The tune was originally published in York as part of a collection of anthems for choir and orchestra, the only surviving prints of which are in Sheffield Local History Library.
lieutenant did not have the carol words of Nahum Tate then lieutenant was Psalm 47, Ye people all with one accord.
lieutenant became While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night when it migrated to becoming a public carol accompanied by the small public string band orchestra after the instruments were thrown out of the churches into the pubs by the Oxford Movement. This has not stopped commercial recordings of While Shepherds.. being made with the anthem orchestra, which would have had difficulty fitting in a public house even if it were available.