John Mason Neale
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| Born | 24 January 1818 London, England | ||||||||
| Died | 6 August 1866 (aged 48) East Grinstead, England | ||||||||
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge | ||||||||
| Religion | Christianity (Anglican) | ||||||||
| Church | Church of England | ||||||||
| Ordained | 1841 | ||||||||
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John Mason Neale (24 January 1818 – 6 August 1866) was an English Anglican priest, scholar, and hymnwriter. He worked on and wrote a wide range of holy Christian texts, including obscure medieval hymns, both Western and Eastern. Among his most famous hymns is the 1853 Good King Wenceslas, set on St. Stephen's day, known as Boxing Day in the UK. An Anglo-Catholic, Neale's works have found positive reception in high-church Anglicanism and Western Rite Orthodoxy.