Joseph Grigg

Joseph Grigg (d. 1768) was most likely the Rev. Gregg mentioned in John Ryland’s diary.  He was a minister but mostly known for his hymns.  He was assistant minister to Thomas Bures at the Presbyterian church in Silver Street, London, 1743-47.  Grigg retired in 1747 (after Bures’s death), married a wealthy widow and retired to St. Albans, where he continued to write and preach.  In 1756 many of his hymns appeared in Miscellanies on Moral and Religious Subjects.  He also published a fast sermon that year on the war (1756).  He contributed 12 hymns to the Christian Magazine, 1765-66, as well as Four Hymns on Divine Subjects (1765). See Josiah Miller, Singers and Songs of the Church, 2nd ed. (London: Longmans, 1869), pp. 197-98.