In 1851 he took charge of St Mary's, Crown Street, Soho, London, where he remained until 1854, when he obtained the senior curacy of Buckingham.
He afterwards resided at 7 Keble Terrace, Oxford, and died of disease of the kidneys at the Castle hotel, 4 Northgate Street, Bath, 21 March 1887.
[1] He was known as a poet and a theologian, and his work entitled Words of Faith and Cheer, 1874, obtained a well-deserved popularity.
[1] His daughter-in-law, Dorothy Frances Gurney, née Blomfield, married to his son Gerald, was also a hymn writer.
He was the author or translator of the following:[1] He also wrote the words for Horsley's Gideon, an oratorio, 1859, several songs which were set to music, many hymns in Shipley's Lyra Eucharistica, 1864, and the hymn commencing Come ye lofty, come ye lowly in Philip Schaff's Christ in Song, 1870.