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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Author of "Christ High-Ascended" in The Worshiping Church Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Joseph Herl

Person Name: Joseph Herl, b. 1959 Arranger of "CHRISTE SANCTORUM" in Lutheran Service Book HERL, JOSEPH, AAGO, ChM (b. 1959): B.A. (Music), Concordia College, New York; M.Mus. (Organ), North Texas State University; Ph.D. (Musicology), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Professor of Music at Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska and organist of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Lincoln, Nebraska. Author of Worship Wars in Early Lutheranism (Oxford University Press, 2004); choral and organ music published by Oxford, Concordia, and MorningStar. Joseph Herl (from In Melody and Song, Darcey Press, 2014

Philip Pusey

1799 - 1885 Translator of "Lord of Our Life and God of Our Salvation" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Pusey, Philip, eldest son of Mr. Philip Pusey, and brother of Dr. Pusey, was born June 25, 1799, and died July 9, 1855. His father, a son of the first Viscount Folkestone, had assumed the name of Pusey instead of that of Bouverie. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Gregory the Great

Person Name: St. Gregory the Great Author (Ascribed to) of "Father, we praise thee, now the night is over" in The English Hymnal See Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604

John Wilson

1905 - 1992 Person Name: J. W. Arranger (Optional Descant Version for Verse 4) of "CHRISTE SANCTORUM" in Hymns for Celebration

David Iliff

Person Name: David Iliff (b. 1939) Arranger of "CHRISTE SANCTORUM" in Ancient and Modern

John E. Bowers

1923 - 2019 Person Name: John E. Bowers (1923-) Author of "We, the Lord's People" in Common Praise (1998)

Ronald A. Klug

b. 1939 Author of "Rise, Shine, You People" in The United Methodist Hymnal Ronald Allan Klug, 1939- Born: June 26, 1939, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Klug was educated at Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minnesota (BS 1962). He taught at St. Matthew Lutheran School, Oconomowoc, Wisconsin (1962-65); performed graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1965-68); was an advertising copyrighter at Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Missouri (1968-69); was an editor at Augsburg Publishing House (1970-76); and taught English at the American School, Fort Dauphin, Madagascar. His works include: The Strange Young Man in the Desert, 1970 Lord, I’ve Been Thinking, 1978 --www.hymntime.com/tch

Simon Zachariah

b. 1951 Translator of "ലോ-ക ദീപ്തി യേശു, മറ്റാരു-മേ-യില്ല" in The Cyber Hymnal

Charles L. Ford

b. 1830 Translator of "The Cross Of Christ" in The Cyber Hymnal Ford, Charles Lawrence, B.A., son of Mr. W. Ford, artist, of Bath, was born at Bath in 1830. Mr. Ford is a graduate of the London University, and is engaged in scholastic work. In 1862 he contributed several poetical pieces to Canon Baynes's Lyra Anglicana, in 1865 to his English Lyrics, and also to the Illustrated Book of Sacred Poetry, n.d. Mr. Ford's hymns and poems were collected and published as Lyra Christi, 1874. From these works the following have come into common use:— 1. Father, for Thy kindest word. (1862.) Strength in Weakness. 2. Lord, from this time we cry to Thee. Christ the Guide of Youth. 3. O Thou, by Whom the balm is borne. In Affliction. 4. This is my Body which is given for you. Holy Communion. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)