On 14 June 1829 he was thrown out of a carriage and received concussion of the brain, which disabled him for some years. He found relief in music. His first public composition was an anthem-like setting of Reginald Heber's "From Greenland's Icy Mountains", the proceeds of which (180l.) he devoted to the Church Missionary Society. In 1836 appeared Op. 36, "An Evening Service in E flat and One Hundred Antiphonal Chants". One of these, a "Recte et Retro" chant in C, sometimes called Worcester chant, became very widely known. In the same year the Gresham prize medal was awarded him for an "Evening Service in A", Op. 37. In 1841 a second medal was gained by an anthem, "Give Thanks", Op. 40.