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Robert Grant

1779 - 1838 Person Name: Robert H. Grant Scripture: Haggai 2:1-9 Author of "O Worship Our God, All Glorious Above" in Voices Together Robert Grant (b. Bengal, India, 1779; d. Dalpoorie, India, 1838) was influenced in writing this text by William Kethe’s paraphrase of Psalm 104 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter (1561). Grant’s text was first published in Edward Bickersteth’s Christian Psalmody (1833) with several unauthorized alterations. In 1835 his original six-stanza text was published in Henry Elliott’s Psalm and Hymns (The original stanza 3 was omitted in Lift Up Your Hearts). Of Scottish ancestry, Grant was born in India, where his father was a director of the East India Company. He attended Magdalen College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1807. He had a distinguished public career a Governor of Bombay and as a member of the British Parliament, where he sponsored a bill to remove civil restrictions on Jews. Grant was knighted in 1834. His hymn texts were published in the Christian Observer (1806-1815), in Elliot’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and posthumously by his brother as Sacred Poems (1839). Bert Polman ======================== Grant, Sir Robert, second son of Mr. Charles Grant, sometime Member of Parliament for Inverness, and a Director of the East India Company, was born in 1785, and educated at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1806. Called to the English Bar in 1807, he became Member of Parliament for Inverness in 1826; a Privy Councillor in 1831; and Governor of Bombay, 1834. He died at Dapoorie, in Western India, July 9, 1838. As a hymnwriter of great merit he is well and favourably known. His hymns, "O worship the King"; "Saviour, when in dust to Thee"; and "When gathering clouds around I view," are widely used in all English-speaking countries. Some of those which are less known are marked by the same graceful versification and deep and tender feeling. The best of his hymns were contributed to the Christian Observer, 1806-1815, under the signature of "E—y, D. R."; and to Elliott's Psalms & Hymns, Brighton, 1835. In the Psalms & Hymns those which were taken from the Christian Observer were rewritten by the author. The year following his death his brother, Lord Glenelg, gathered 12 of his hymns and poems together, and published them as:— Sacred Poems. By the late Eight Hon. Sir Robert Grant. London, Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, 1839. It was reprinted in 1844 and in 1868. This volume is accompanied by a short "Notice," dated "London, Juno 18, 1839." ===================== Grant, Sir R., p. 450, i. Other hymns are:— 1. From Olivet's sequester'd scats. Palm Sunday. 2. How deep the joy, Almighty Lord. Ps. lxxxiv. 3. Wherefore do the nations wage. Ps. ii. These are all from his posthumous sacred Poems, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Author (st. 5) of "Angels from the Realms of Glory" in Timeless Truths In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

George P. Simmonds

1890 - 1991 Person Name: George P. Simmonds, 1890-1991 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Translator (vs. 1, 3) of "Angels, from the Realms of Glory (Ángeles de alta gloria)" in Santo, Santo, Santo Used pseudonyms G Paul S., J. Paul Simon, and J. Pablo Símon

Dianne Marie Zandstra

b. 1952 Person Name: Dianne Zandstra, b. 1952 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Translator (vs. 2, 4) of "Angels, from the Realms of Glory (Ángeles de alta gloria)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

María Eugenia Cornou

b. 1969 Person Name: María Eugenia Cornou, b. 1969 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Translator (vs. 5) of "Angels, from the Realms of Glory (Ángeles de alta gloria)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Charles Wood

1866 - 1926 Person Name: Charles Wood, 1866-1926 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Arranger (version 1) of "IRIS" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Richard Lloyd

1933 - 2021 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Arranger (version 2) of "IRIS" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Mark E. Hunt

Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Author (sts. 2-3) of "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.)

Joseph Barnby

1838 - 1896 Person Name: Sir Joseph Barnby Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Composer of "ST. ANDREW'S" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Joseph Barnby (b. York, England, 1838; d. London, England, 1896) An accomplished and popular choral director in England, Barby showed his musical genius early: he was an organist and choirmaster at the age of twelve. He became organist at St. Andrews, Wells Street, London, where he developed an outstanding choral program (at times nicknamed "the Sunday Opera"). Barnby introduced annual performances of J. S. Bach's St. John Passion in St. Anne's, Soho, and directed the first performance in an English church of the St. Matthew Passion. He was also active in regional music festivals, conducted the Royal Choral Society, and composed and edited music (mainly for Novello and Company). In 1892 he was knighted by Queen Victoria. His compositions include many anthems and service music for the Anglican liturgy, as well as 246 hymn tunes (published posthumously in 1897). He edited four hymnals, including The Hymnary (1872) and The Congregational Sunday School Hymnal (1891), and coedited The Cathedral Psalter (1873). Bert Polman

Johannes Thommen

1711 - 1783 Person Name: John Thommen Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Composer of "CASSEL" in Moravian Book of Worship Johannes Thommen, Switzerland. A pietist, he traveled through Scandinavia singing hymns and accompanying himself on his 10-string guitar. Contributed to the Zion's Harp, a collection of hymns and songs. John Perry