John Francis Wade (1711 – 1786)

John Francis Wade (1711 – 1786) was an English composer who is credited composing the tune Adeste Fideles. 

A Jacobite, Wade fled to France after the Jacobite rising of 1745 was crushed. As a Catholic layman, he lived with exiled English Catholics in France, where he taught music and worked on church music for private use.

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