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Frederick Anthony Abair

1893 - 1954 Person Name: F. Abair Author of "The Coming of the Spirit" in Sing for Joy Buried: Sacred Heart Cemetery Bethlehem, Shelby, Ohio. We have little data on Abair, except that he was a cleric. Lyrics Annunciation, The Christ the King, Forevermore Trip to Bethlehem, A Wind Was Loud, The http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/a/b/a/abair_fa.htm

Y. H.

Translator of "O splendor of God's glory bright" in The English Hymnal

R. Martin Pope

1865 - 1944 Person Name: R. M. P. Translator of "Ye clouds and darkness, hosts of night" in The English Hymnal Pope, Robert Martin, M.A., s. of Rev. H. J. Pope, D.D. (ex-President of the Wesleyan Conference), was born in London, Jan. 4, 1865, and was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Victoria Univ., Manchester, and St. John's Coll., Cambridge (B.A. 1887, M.A. 1896). He entered the Wesleyan Ministry in 1888 and is now (1906) stationed at Oxford. He was joint author of The Hymns of Prudentius, translated by R. Martin Pope and R. F. Davis, 1905, being a verse translation of the Cathemerinon of Prudentius with notes. Two of Mr. Pope's versions are in The English Hymnal, 1906, Nos. 54, 55. He also contributed articles on Latin Hymnody, with some original translations, to the London Quarterly Review, July 1905 and Jan. 1906, with a supplemental note in July 1906 containing two translations into Latin verse. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)