Education
University of Durham. Howard University.
University of Durham. Howard University.
His own estimate was that there were 400,000 hymns in the scope of his chosen field His correspondents for research numbered over 1000. Julian graduated from Durham University (Master of Arts, 1887).
He was awarded a Lambeth degree (Doctor of Divinity, 1894), and an honorary degree from Howard University, Washington District of Columbia (Doctor of Laws, 1894).
He was Vicar of Topcliffe, Yorkshire and later Vicar of Wincobank. In November 1901 he was appointed Prebendary of Church Fenton in York Minster.
He later became a Canon of New York He also wrote Concerning Hymns (1874), History of the Use of Hymns in Public Worship, and Their Proper Characteristics (1894), and Carols, Ancient and Modern (1900).