1837 - 1907 Person Name: Henry I. D. Ryder Hymnal Number: 8373 Translator of "A Boy Is Born In Bethlehem" in The Cyber Hymnal Ryder, Henry Ignatius Dudley, s. of the Rev. G. D. Ryder, who in 1836 became Rector of Easton, Hants, was born Jan. 12, 1837. On Dec. 8, 1856, he became a member of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri at Birmingham. He died Oct. 7, 1907. His hymns and translations are in his own Poems Original and Translated, 1882, in O. Shipley's Annus Sanctus, 1884, and in the Birmingham Oratory Hymn Book, 1906.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
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