Francis Pott (hymnwriter)

He is noted as the author or translator of a number of popular Christian hymns including "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" and "The Strife is O'er, the Battle Done".

[3] The 1891 census shows that he was also the brother-in-law of Mrs Henry Pott (died 1915) of South Kensington (an early advocate of the Baconian theory of Shakespeare authorship), and uncle of the pioneer etcher Constance Mary Pott (1862-1957), assistant to Sir Frank Short at the Royal College of Art.

As a scholar of classical languages, Pott was able to translate Latin and Syriac liturgical texts into English verse.

[6][7] "The Strife is O'er" is often sung to the tune Victory, adapted from a 1591 setting of the Gloria by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina from a Magnificat tertii toni.

"The Strife is O'er" first appeared with this setting, arranged by Henry George Ley, in the 1925 hymnal Songs of Praise.