Gerard Thomas Noel

Gerard Thomas Noel (1782–1851) was a Church of England cleric, known as a hymn writer.

The eldest son Charles was created an Earl in 1841, and the brothers were given the courtesy prefix The Honourable.

He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, entered Lincoln's Inn in 1798, and went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.

[2][4] On taking holy orders Noel held successively the curacy of Radwell, Hertfordshire and the vicarage of Rainham, Kent, also being curate at Richmond, Surrey.

[2] He has been described as "a conservative evangelical whose theology was Calvinistic and premillennialist", and an opponent of the Catholic Apostolic Church.