[1][2][3] He was editor of the Lyra Anglicana, which was among the most influential hymnals of the Oxford Movement in the 1860s and 1870s, having a relatively broad selection of Anglican authors.
[6] He took Holy Orders (deacon 1855, priest 1856), and was successively curate of Christ Church, Blackfriars, London (1855–58), perpetual curate of St Paul, Whitechapel (1858–62) and Holy Trinity, Maidstone (1862–66), and vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Coventry (1866–79).
[10] He died at Oxford in March 1895 by accidentally catching his clothes alight while standing in front of the open fire in his lodgings.
[11] Robert Hall Baynes is more widely known as the compiler of some most successful books of sacred poetry than as an original hymn-writer, although some of his hymns are of considerable merit, and are in extensive use.
His hymns appeared in The Canterbury Hymnal, the Autumn Memories, and in the Churchman’s Shilling Magazine, of which he was sometime editor.