Richard William Beaty (c.1799–1883) was an Irish music teacher, composer and organist.
[3] He was appointed organist and musical instructor at the Molyneux Asylum for Blind Women, Dublin, around 1824.
[5] He was master of the choristers in Christ Church Cathedral from February 1830, where he had been deputising for the absent Walter Hamerton; he resigned the post in 1872.
The tune was originally composed for the children of a school set up in 1825 in Summerhill, a district of Northside, Dublin, with support from Viscountess Harberton.
[1][11][12] In the 1894 Church Hymnal by R. P. Stewart, Caritas is given as the alternate tune to Marianne Nunn's version of the hymn One there is above all others, from the original by John Newton.