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Henry Hiles

1826 - 1904 Person Name: H. Hiles Composer of "SWEDEN" in The Book of Praise for Sunday Schools Born: December 31, 1826, Shrewsbury, England. Died: October 20, 1904, Worthing, England. Hiles was educated at Oxford (BMus 1862, DMus 1867). He played the organ at Shrewsbury, as his brother’s deputy (1846); Bishopwearmouth (1847); St. Michael’s, Wood Street (1859); the Blind Asylum, Manchester (1859); Bowden (1861); and St. Paul’s, Manchester (1863-67). He lectured in harmony and composition at Owen’s College in Manchester (1867) and Victoria University (1879), and was Professor at the Manchester College of Music (1893). He also conducted musical societies in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and owned and edited the Quarterly Music Review (1885-88). He retired in 1904, moving to Pinner, near Harrow. His works include: Twelve Tunes to Original or Favourite Hymns, 1867 Harmony of Sounds, three editions: 1871, 1872, 1879 Wesley Tune Book, 1872 (editor) Grammar of Music, 1879 First Lessons in Singing (Manchester: Hime & Addison, 1881) Part Writing or Modern Counterpoint (Novello: 1884) Harmony or Counterpoint, 1889 Harmony, Choral or Counterpun --www.hymntime.com/tch/

S. Parkman Tuckerman

1819 - 1890 Person Name: Samule Parkman Tuckerman Composer of "HUMILITY" in Services for Congregational Worship. The New Hymn and Tune Book Tuckerman, Samuel Parkman; b. 2/11/1819, Boston; d. 6/30/1890, Newport, R.I.; American organist and composer

Robert W. Dixon

1750 - 1825 Person Name: R. W. Dixon Composer of "STAINCLIFFE" in Plymouth Sunday-School Hymnal

Samuel Webbe

1770 - 1843 Composer of "MELCOMBE" in The Riverdale Hymn Book Samuel Webbe, Jr. (1770-1843), adapted the tune RICHMOND. He was organist at Paradise Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool (1798). Later he succeeded his father as organist at the Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London (1817), and then St. Nicholas’ Church and St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993