Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 25, 1812, Largs, Ayr­shire, Scot­land.

Died: No­vem­ber 9, 1888, Bex­ley Heath (near Lon­don), Eng­land.

Maccall earned a Mas­ter of of Arts de­gree from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow, then stu­died the­ol­o­gy in Ge­ne­va, Switz­er­land. Or­dained a Un­i­tar­i­an min­is­ter, he pas­tored in Bol­ton, Lan­cas­ter (1837-40) and Cred­ton, De­von­shire (1841-6), then moved to Lon­don. His works in­clude:

• Hymns of Sweden Rendered into English, 1868
• Hymns of Denmark by Gilbert Tait
• Russian Hymns, 1879
• Christian Legends, 1884

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Translations

1. In Heav’n Above