Oxenham, John (1852–1941)

English novelist and religious poet. God's Prisoner 1898 was followed by other romantic novels and Bees in Amber 1913, a book of verse. In 1914 his ‘Hymn for the Men at the Front’ became widely known.

He was born in Manchester and was educated at Old Trafford School and Victoria University. He spent his early years in commerce, travelling in France and the USA, but later took up the business side of journalism and was associated with Jerome K Jerome in the periodicals The Idler and Today.