Philip Knapton (20 October 1788 – 20 June 1833) was an English organist and composer, active in the musical life of York.
He received his musical education at Cambridge, studying under Charles Hague, but did not graduate from the university.
Soon afterwards, feeling that psalmody had fallen into neglect, he produced A Collection of Tunes for Psalms and Hymns, Selected as a Supplement to those now used in several Churches in York and its Vicinities, published in York in 1816; he selected tunes that he considered had neither a "gloomy style" nor a "light and indecorous style".
The opening is one of those melodious passages, short but attractive, which fasten at once on the fancy, and fix themselves in the memory.
Neither the contrivance nor the execution of this song are common place... it evinces a more than ordinary share of the fancy and the feeling which united with science, are the qualities which conduct a composer to distinction."