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Brooks, Phillips

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Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)

US religious leader. His famous work is the hymn ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’, which was first sung in 1868. His ‘Lectures on Preaching’ were published in 1877.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1855, taught briefly, and was ordained an Episcopal minister in 1859. From 1869-91 he served as pastor of Trinity Church and he was university preacher at Harvard. He died not long after he was consecrated Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts in 1893.
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