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Herbert Stanley Oakeley

1830 - 1903 Person Name: Sir Herbert Oakeley Hymnal Number: 69a Composer of "ABENDS" in An Evening Service Book

Samuel Smith

1821 - 1917 Hymnal Number: 123 Composer of "EDENGROVE" in An Evening Service Book

William S. Bambridge

1842 - 1923 Person Name: W. S. Bambridge Hymnal Number: 24 Composer of "S. ASAPH" in An Evening Service Book

1834 - 1905 Person Name: H. S. Irons Hymnal Number: 74 Composer of "S. COLUMBA" in An Evening Service Book Born: January 19, 1834, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: June 29, 1905, Nottingham, England. Irons was a nephew of the brothers Stephen & George Elvey. He became a chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under T. E. Jones. After studying music under Stephen Elvey at Oxford, he was appointed organist at St. Columba’s College, a large public school at Rathfarnham, near Dublin, Ireland. He stayed there only a few months before being offered the position of organist at Southwell Minister. From Southwell, he went to Chester as assistant organist to Frederic Gunton. Three years later, he accepted an appointment at St. Andrew’s Church, Nottingham, where he remained until his death. --www.hymntime.com/tch

John Reading

1645 - 1692 Person Name: J. Reading Hymnal Number: 5 Composer of "ADESTE FIDELES" in An Evening Service Book b. c1645, Lincoln; d. 1692, Winchester; English composer and organist; organist to Winchester Cathedral from 1675 to 1681; Adeste fideles has been attributed to him.

Christopher Edwin Willing

1830 - 1904 Person Name: C. E. Willing Hymnal Number: 109 Composer of "ALSTONE" in An Evening Service Book Christopher Edwin Willing; Devon, England, 1830 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Arthur Henry Dyke Troyte

1811 - 1857 Person Name: A. H. D. Troyte Hymnal Number: 28b Composer of "TROYTE No. 1" in An Evening Service Book See Acland, Arthur H. Dyke (Arthur Henry Dyke), 1811-1857. Arthur Henry Dyke Acland changed his last name to Troyte in 1852 when he succeeded to the estates of Rev. Edward Berkeley Troyte. A part of the requirement for this succession was that he change his last name to Troyte.

Robert Prescott Stewart

1825 - 1894 Person Name: Sir R. Stewart, Mus. Doc. Hymnal Number: 104 Composer of "ORA LABORA" in An Evening Service Book

Henry S. Houseley

1851 - 1925 Person Name: Henry Houseley, F. C. O. Hymnal Number: 70b Composer of "LINCOLN" in An Evening Service Book Born in Sutton-in-Ashfield, England, September 20, 1851. Studied at the Royal College of Organists in London, earning an FRCO. Served as organist at St. Luke's, Derby, and St. James', Nottingham, then emigrated to Denver, Colorado, where he succeeded John Gower as organist of St. John's Cathedral. He was a Founder of the American Guild of Organists. Died March 13, 1925. —AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 98-99 =============== Born: September 20, 1851, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Died: March 13, 1925, Denver, Colorado. Buried: St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, Denver, Colorado; his ashes were interred in the east wall of the choir. Educated in Nottingham & London & by James Turpin, a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, & Edmund Turpin, Houseley played the organ at St. Luke’s Church, Derby, England; St. Thomas’ Church, Nottingham; of the Sacred Harmonic Society of Nottingham; and was music lecturer at the college in Nottingham. He lived in Denver, Colorado, from 1888 to at least 1901. He became organist and choir director at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in 1892 when John Gower left that post; he served there the rest of his life. He was also for 30 years organist of Temple Emmanuel in Denver, for 25 years organist and music director at the Rocky Mountain and Colorado bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasons, director of the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and director of the Denver Choral Society, which won a $1,000 prize in a Denver competition in 1896, and first prize at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904. Housley also directed a men’s chorus called the Apollo Club, played the organ at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and the Oakes Home (an old age home run by the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado), was on the faculties of the Denver Conservatory of Music and the University of Colorado, and was on the board of the Musical Society of Denver. A prolific composer, he wrote anthems, pieces for mixed chorus, arrangements for women’s voices, men’s voices, songs, piano works, organ pieces, and six operas, including Native Silver and Juggler. --www.hymntime.org/tch

Jean Milne Gower

1867 - 1957 Person Name: Jean Milne Taylor Hymnal Number: 48 Composer of "LIVERMORE" in An Evening Service Book Buried: Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado. Gower moved with her family from Michigan to Colorado in 1871; their ranch was on the Cache la Poudre River. As an adult, she lived in Denver and wrote the for the Rocky Mountain News. Her husband was John H. Gower; her works include: A Few Verses Written from 1883 to 1891, 1891 The Kaleidoscope: Little Pictures of Colorado (Denver, Colorado: The Miles & Dryer Printing Company, 1923) Beads of Namaqua and Other Poems, 1923 Echoes From Cliff Dwellings Versicles of the Mesa Verde, 1923 That Unknown Guy: A Short Peace Play, 1932 Way of the Moon, 1934 --www.hymntime.com/tch/