INFORMATION
EDWARD JOHN BRAILSFORD.
The Rev. E. J. Brailsford was born in Birmingham in 1841, and is the son of a builder and architect.
He was educated in the Wesleyan Connexional School, Dublin, and resided in Ireland ten years. He was a student at Didsbury, and after wards in Edinburgh University. He began the Methodist Mission in Blairgowrie, N.B., and stayed there six years.
Most of the hymns Mr. Brailsford has published were written in Ilkley, Wharfedale. Four Lord, I will follow on, O God of Truth, speak Thou Thy Holy Word, As sets the sun while clouds grow bright, and Behold, behold, the Bridegroom nigh were written for the Gatecliff Chant-Book, widely used in parts of the West Riding.