Osborne Wight

Life

Born: Unknown

Died: 1800

Biography
The son of Moses Wight (chaplain of the Bridewell Hospital, d. 1795), Osborne Wight was a clergyman and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He was instituted to the vicarage of Condover on 26 Feb 1782, contributed several tunes to William Dechair Tattersall's Improved Psalmody (1794), and left a collection of manuscript music to the Bodleian Library.

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List of choral works

• The sinner's lips, with curses fraught

 
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External links

• Obituary for Moses Wight, Osborne's father
• Description of the Wight MSS at the Bodleian Library