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Ferdinand Q. Blanchard

1876 - 1968 Hymnal Number: 81 Author of "O Child of lowly manger birth" in The School Hymnal Blanchard was born on July 12 in Jersey City, NJ. He attended Amherst College (AB 1898) and Yale Divinity School (BD 1901). He was ordained as a Congregational minister and pastored churches in Southington, Connecticut (1901-04); East Orange, New Jersey (1904-15); and at the Euclid Avenue Congregational Church, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1915 until retirement. He died on July 2, 1968 in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Sources: Hughes, p. 317 Reynolds, p. 253 Stuber, p. 396 NN, Hymnary. Source: http//www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/l/a/blanchard_fq.htm

John E. Roe

1838 - 1871 Person Name: John Edward Roe Hymnal Number: 215 Composer of "WESTON" in The School Hymnal

Archibald MacDonald

1853 - 1948 Hymnal Number: 188 Composer of "WARRIOR" in The School Hymnal

T. Alfred Stowell

1831 - 1916 Person Name: T. A. Stowell Hymnal Number: 177 Author of "Watch against temptation" in The School Hymnal T. Alfred Stowell, M.A.; Queen’s College, Oxford; rector of Chorley; hon. canon of Manchester Cathedral; and rural dean of Leyland ======================= Stowell, Thomas Alfred, M.A., son of Canon H. Stowell, was born at Salford, July 15, 1831. He was Bridgman Exhibitioner at Queen's College, Oxford, 1853, and B.A. in honours in 1855. Taking Holy Orders in 1857, he became Curate of Bolton, Diocese of Ripon, 1857-60; Incumbent of St. Stephen's, Bowling, Bradford, 1860-65; and then Rector of Christ Church, Salford, in succession to his father, 1865. He was also appointed Rural Dean of Salford in 1876, and Hon. Canon in Manchester Cathedral in 1879. Canon T. A. Stowell has published The Church Catechism simply and clearly explained, 1882, various Sermons, papers on Education, &c. Most of his hymns were written for the Anniversary Sermons of Christ Church Sunday Schools, Salford (nearly 2000 children), and include:— 1. Blessed Saviour, hear us when we cry. 1872. 2. Happy were those mothers. 1866. 3. In God's holy dwelling. 1873. 4. Lord, on Thy day, within Thy holy dwelling. 1877. 5. Lord, Thy children lowly bending. 1875. 6. My Saviour, be thou near me, When I lie down, &c. 1874. 7. O Jesus [Saviour] we have promised Henceforth to be Thine Own. Confirmation. 1877. 8. Sweet day of rest which God has given. Sunday. 1868. 9. While the sun is shining. Work. 1869. These 9 hymns are in Canon T. A. Stowell's 1877 ed. of his father's Selection and of these Nos. 3 and 9 are the most popular. He is also the author of:— 10. Come, Christian youths and maidens. Sunday School Anniversary. In Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, and others. 11. Early the holy women came. Easter. In the Church Monthly, April, 1888. 12. Remember thy Creator. Youthful Piety. In the Church S. School Magazine , Feb. 1888. 13. Saviour, we are young and weak. The Christian Race. In Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881. Several of these are popular hymns for children, and will no doubt gradually come into somewhat extensive use. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Drinkwater

1882 - 1937 Hymnal Number: 181 Author of "Lord, not for light in darkness do we pray" in The School Hymnal Although born in Leytonstone, East London, in 1882, Drinkwater spent much of his younger life in Oxfordshire. His father was a master at a good school in Leytonstone, who gave up teaching to go on the stage. He took his young son with him in his early days, and he met many famous actors. However, when he was about 9 years old, Drinkwater was sent to Oxford High School, where he spent his term time living with his paternal grandfather, an ironmonger who traded out of Cornhill, Oxford. The grandfather’s family, mainly based in Oxfordshire, were, before the advent of the railway, providing public transport by way of stage coaches from London to Oxford, and from Oxford to Banbury and Warwick. During the school holidays, Drinkwater stayed with his great uncle, a member of the Brown family, who farmed at Piddington, where he learned to love rural life and all it meant. His love of the area remained with him all his life, and some of his best work was inspired by Piddington and the surrounding countryside. On leaving school at 15, Drinkwater took up a job in Nottingham as an insurance clerk, and when the firm moved to Birmingham, he went with them. However, he was soon bored and, like his father, took to the theatre, going by the name of John Darnley. With a friend, Barry Jackson, he opened the Birmingham Repertory Company and became its first manager. In addition he not only acted in its productions but was also involved in producing, directing, as well as writing scripts and song lyrics. He retained his love of, and involvement with, the theatre all his life. Drinkwater had always read widely, and had begun to write poetry while working as an insurance clerk. He published his first book of poems in 1903, at his own expense. His second book, Lyrical and Other Poems, was published by Samurai Press, a small, idealistic poetry publishing house, in 1908, with a further volume, Poems of Men and Hours, appearing in 1911. In the same year he became president of the Birmingham Dramatic and Literary Club, and met many artists and writers as a result. In the period immediately before the First World War, Drinkwater was one of the group of six poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock. The other 'Dymock poets' were: Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Robert Frost, Wilfred Gibson and Edward Thomas. He became close friends with Brooke, both of them contributing regularly to the influential anthology Georgian Poetry. In 1918 Drinkwater had his first major success with his play "Abraham Lincoln," which is still regularly performed in repertory theatres in the United States. In 1933 he published a collection of poems called Summer Harvest, which made reference to the Great War and his time in the Piddington countryside. Drinkwater had married Kathleen Walpole in 1906, an actress he met through Barry Jackson's private amateur dramatic club, later to become the Pilgrim Players. They moved to London, and Drinkwater’s work brought him a degree of success both in the UK and the USA, where he toured frequently. It may have been on one of these tours that his wife fell for the brilliant Ukrainian pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch. In retaliation Benno's wife, Daisy, an Australian violinist, began an affair with Drinkwater and they married in 1924. Both of them had children from their previous marriages, and he wrote children’s stories for them which he later published. Drinkwater spent his later years living in the Cotswolds, but died in 1937, in Kilburn, London. At his request he was buried in the churchyard of St Nicholas’ Church, Piddington. His gravestone is engraved on both sides with lines from his poems. --www.piddingtonvillageoxfordshire.org.uk/

F. G. Plummer

1858 - 1929 Hymnal Number: 299 Composer of "[Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts]" in The School Hymnal

Robert Davis

Hymnal Number: 218 Author of "I thank Thee, Lord, for strength of arm" in The School Hymnal

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

1760 - 1836 Person Name: Rouget de Lisle Hymnal Number: 259 Composer of "THE MARSEILLAISE" in The School Hymnal Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, sometimes spelled de l'Isle, (10 May 1760, Lons-le-Saunier – 26 June 1836, Choisy-le-Roi), was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. He is known for writing the words and music of the "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" in 1792, which would later be known as "La Marseillaise" and become the French national anthem. De Lisle was born at Lons-le-Saunier, reputedly on a market day. His parents lived in the neighbouring village of Montaigu.[1] A plaque was placed at the precise spot of his birth and a statue erected in the town's centre in 1882. He was the eldest son of Claude Ignace Rouget (April 5, 1735 - August 6, 1792) at Orgelet and Jeanne Madeleine Gaillande (July 2, 1734 - March 20, 1811). He enlisted into the army as an engineer and attained the rank of captain. The song that has immortalised him, La Marseillaise, was composed at Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was quartered in April 1792. He wrote the words in a fit of patriotic excitement after a public dinner. The piece was at first called Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin ("War Song for the Army of the Rhine") and only received its name of "Marseillaise" from its adoption by the Provençal volunteers whom Barbaroux introduced into Paris and who were prominent in the storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10 August. Rouget de Lisle was a royalist and was cashiered and thrown into prison in 1793, narrowly escaping the guillotine. He was freed during the Thermidorian Reaction. Rouget de Lisle wrote a few other songs of the same kind as the "Marseillaise" and in 1825 he published Chants français (French Songs) in which he set to music fifty songs by various authors. His Essais en vers et en prose (Attempts in Verse and Prose, 1797) contains the Marseillaise; a prose tale Adelaide et Monville of the sentimental kind; and some occasional poems. De Lisle died in poverty in Choisy-le-Roi, Seine-et-Oise. His ashes were transferred from Choisy-le-Roi cemetery to the Invalides on 14 July 1915, during World War I. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

James H. Wallis

1861 - 1940 Person Name: J. H. Wallis Hymnal Number: 75 Composer of "RING OUT, YE BELLS" in The School Hymnal James Hearknett Wallis, b. 13 Apr. 1861, London; d. 23 Aug. 1940, Salt Lake City, a writer, an attorney, a public health advocate, a musician, and a missionary.

Eliza F. Morris

1821 - 1874 Hymnal Number: 21 Author of "God of pity, God of grace" in The School Hymnal Morris, Eliza Fanny, née Goffe, was born in London in 1821, and married in 1849 to Josiah Morris. She gained the prize for a poem on Kindness to Animals offered by the Band of Hope. Her published works are he Voice and the Reply, Worcester, 1858, and Life Lyrics. She also edited a Bible Class Hymn Book, and contributed the words to School Harmonies, published by her husband. Her hymns in common use include:— 1. Come unto Me and rest. Christ's Invitation. From The Voice and the Reply, 1858, into the 1874 Supplement to the New Congregational, in an altered form. 2. God of pity, God of grace. Lent. This hymn in Litany form appeared in Pt. ii. of The Voice and the Reply, 1858, entitled "The Prayer in the Temple." From Miller's Singers and Songs of the Church, 1869, we gather that this hymn was written on the 4th of Sept., 1857. 3. 0 Thou, blest Lamb of God. Love for and Trust in Jesus desired. From The Voice and the Reply, 1858, into the Anglican Hymn Book, 2nd ed., 1871. [Rev. W. Garrett Horder] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

E. M. Wren

Hymnal Number: 185 Composer of "RACHEL" in The School Hymnal

Edwin Augustus Sydenham

1847 - 1891 Person Name: Edwin A. Sydenham Hymnal Number: 192 Composer of "KING EDWARD" in The School Hymnal

Frederick Schilling

Hymnal Number: 71 Composer of "BEAUTIFUL STAR" in The School Hymnal

George F. Vincent

Person Name: G. F. Vincent Hymnal Number: 231 Composer of "SUPPLICATION" in The School Hymnal

John W. Barrington

1861 - 1946 Person Name: J. W. Barrington Hymnal Number: 204 Composer of "ONWARD" in The School Hymnal

Hester P. Hawkins

1846 - 1928 Person Name: H. P. Hawkins Hymnal Number: 240 Author of "Almighty Father, God of love" in The School Hymnal Hawkins, Hester P., née Lewis, wife of Joshua Hawkins, of Bedford. In 1885, Mrs. Hawkins published The Home Hymn Book, A Manual of Sacred Song for the Family Circle, London, Novello & Co. To this collection she contributed 7 hymns under the signature of "H. P. H." For home use we know of no book of equal comprehensiveness and merit. The music also is well adapted to the family circle. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ======================= Hawkins, Hester Periam, p. 1570, i. Her hymns, in the Home Hymn Book, 1885, have almost all passed into other collections. The seven given with her initials "H. P. H." in the Home H. Book are:— 1. Father of all, again we meet. p. 1563, 2. Heavenly Father, Thou hast brought us. Golden Wedding. 3. Kind Shepherd, see Thy little lamb. Evening. 4. O Thou the great Unknown, Unseen. The Thought of God. 5. The twilight softly falling. Sunday Evening. 6. Thy little one, O Saviour dear. Morning. 7. To Thee, the Giver of all good. For Mothers. Mrs. Hawkins informs me that the following in the Home H. Book, 1885, are also by her:— 8. I come to Thee, my Father. Birthdays. 9. In the Name of God our Father. Beginning of Term. 10. Jesu, loving Saviour. The Love of Jesus. 11. Now the days are dark and dreary. Winter. 12. Sweetly o'er the meadows fair. Sunday Evening. 13. The happy days have come again. End of Term. There is a bright and happy home. Heaven. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Henry Warburton Hawkes

1843 - 1917 Hymnal Number: 114 Author of "Thou knowest, Lord, Thou knowest my life's deep story" in The School Hymnal Hawkes, Henry Warburton, born at Kendal, 1843, for sixteen years minister of the North End Mission, Liverpool, from 1891 to 1900 of the Bootle Free Church, since 1906 of West Kirby Free Church. Editor of Hymns of Help and Songs of Praise, 1882; and Hymns and Sacred Songs for Church and Home. 1891, Reprinted and enlarged, 1898. The edition of 1898 has about 100 of his own hymns and adaptations for popular tunes. 1. Amid the din of earthly strife. Vision of the Christ. 2. Father, Thy dear name we own. Litany. 3. Heavenward lift your banners. Christian Warfare. 4. Peace, perfect peace, the gift of God within. Inward Peace. 5. Thank we now the Lord of heaven. Christmas. 6. Thou knowest, Lord! Thou know'st my life's deep story. The Searcher of Hearts. No. 3 published 1882; 1, 2, 4, 5 published 1891; 6 published 1898. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Joseph Gostick

Hymnal Number: 157 Alterer of "The light pours down from heaven" in The School Hymnal

C. Warwick Jordan

1840 - 1909 Person Name: C. W. Jordan Hymnal Number: 158 Composer of "DOMUS DOMINI" in The School Hymnal Born: January 27, 1841, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Died: August 30, 1909, Hayward’s Heath, Sussex, England. Cremated: Golders Green, London, England. Jordan began his musical career as a chorister, first at Bristol Cathedral and later at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was educated at Oxford (BMus 1869), and received the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music in 1886. A champion of plainsong, he was an honorary organist of the London Gregorian Association, where he took a prominent part in the annual festivals at St. Paul’s Cathedral. He was a professor of organ and harmony at the Guildhall School of Music, and an honorary fellow, examiner and treasurer of the Royal College of Organists. Jordan held organist positions at St. Paul’s, Bunhill Row (1857); St. Luke’s Holloway (1860); and from 1866 until his death at St. Stephen’s Church, Lewisham (where he was also choir master). His works include: One Hundred and Fifty Harmonies (London: Novello, Ewer & Company, 1880) --www.hymntime.com/tch

John T. Grimley

Hymnal Number: 247 Composer of "SUMMERFORD" in The School Hymnal

George E. Oliver

Person Name: George Edgar Oliver Hymnal Number: 164 Composer of "OLIVER" in The School Hymnal

Edwin Drewett

1850 - 1924 Hymnal Number: 58 Composer of "ELMHURST" in The School Hymnal Born: 1850, London, England. Died: April 6, 1924, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Drewett studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Charles Steggall, and served as organist at Harecourt Congregational Chapel, London; the German Lutheran Church, Dalston (1893-1905); and the German Embassy Church, Brompton (1905-14); and the Church of King Charles the Martyr, Tunbridge Wells (1907-24). --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Edwin Moss

1838 - 1938 Hymnal Number: 114 Composer of "CULLINGWORTH" in The School Hymnal

Samuel P. Warren

1841 - 1915 Hymnal Number: 290 Composer of "[Seek ye the Lord while He may be found]" in The School Hymnal b. 2-18-1841, Montreal, Que., d. 10-7-15, New York; organist and composer

Anna Garlin Spencer

1851 - 1931 Hymnal Number: 176 Author of "Hail the hero workers Of the mighty past!" in The School Hymnal Spencer, Anna Garlin (Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 17, 1851--February 12, 1931, New York). Married Rev. William H. Spencer. She was ordained as a Unitarian minister, and was a lecturer and author of books on social problems. In 1896 in her Orders of Service for Public Worship she included her song entitled "The Marching Song of Workers," beginning "Hail the hero workers of the mighty past" set to ST. GERTRUDE. In was included in Hymns of the United Church, 1924, in Songs of Work and Worship, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

John Hyatt Brewer

1856 - 1931 Hymnal Number: 283 Arranger of "THE PILGRIMS' CHORUS" in The School Hymnal

Thomas Hincks

1818 - 1899 Hymnal Number: 224 Author of "Scorn not the slightest word or deed" in The School Hymnal Hincks, Thomas, B.A , F.R.S., was born at Exeter in 1818, and educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Belfast, and Manchester College, York. He has been pastor of Unitarian congregations at Cork, 1839; Dublin, 1841; Warrington, 1844; Exeter, 1846; Sheffield, 1852, and Mill Hill, Leeds, 1855-1869. He is the author of several scientific works and papers. His hymns were contributed to Vespers according to the use of Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, 1868, a Supplement to the collection used by that congregation. They are:— 1. Hark, the evening call to prayer. Evening. 2. Heavenly Father, by Whose care. Evening. 3. Lord, in the holy hour of even. Evening. 4. To the Cross, O Lord, we bear. Holy Communion. The most popular of these hymns is No. 2. They are all of more than average merit, and are worthy of attention. [Rev. W. Garrett Holder] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology

T. Allen Cleaver

Hymnal Number: 90 Composer of "REJOICE" in The School Hymnal

C. W. Pearce

b. 1856 Hymnal Number: 303 Composer of "[Glory be to Thee, O Lord]" in The School Hymnal

Charles H. Morse

b. 1853 Hymnal Number: 87 Composer of "ELOI" in The School Hymnal

Jane Robbins

Hymnal Number: 260 Author of "Liberty, O liberty" in The School Hymnal

Emma E. Marean

1854 - 1936 Hymnal Number: 221 Author of "Eternal Life, whose love divine" in The School Hymnal Marean, Emma Endicott. (Boston, Massachusetts, January 20, 1854--October 17, 1936, Cambridge, Massachusetts). She married Joseph Mason Marean on January 20, 1876. Two hymns by her were included in The Isles of Shoals Hymn Book (Unitarian), 1908: Grateful for another day Set from the restless world apart Neither has been included in later hymn books but both are in her small volume of poems, Now and Then, Cambridge, 1928. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

W. Acfield

Hymnal Number: 293 Composer of "VISPER" in The School Hymnal

J. W. Boulding

1841 - 1929 Person Name: J. Wimsett Boulding Hymnal Number: 75 Author of "Ring out, ye bells, your music tells" in The School Hymnal Boulding was born on October 21, 1841 at Westminster St. Margaret, Middlesex, England. He was a Baptist minister in Tottenham Court Road and authored several manuscripts. He died on March 18, 1929 in Chiswick, London, England. See more at http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/o/u/boulding_jw.htm

Charles L. Ziegler

Hymnal Number: 6 Composer of "CHURCH VIGILANT" in The School Hymnal

Frank E. A. Stoney

1874 - 1918 Person Name: Dr. Frank E. A. Stoney Hymnal Number: 181 Composer of "STONEY" in The School Hymnal

George W. Shinn

1839 - 1910 Person Name: G. Shinn Hymnal Number: 51 Composer of "WARTBURG CASTLE" in The School Hymnal

Louisa P. Loring

1854 - 1924 Person Name: Louisa Putnam Loring Hymnal Number: 6 Author of "O Thou who turnest into morning" in The School Hymnal Loring, Louisa Putnam. (1854-1924) of Boston and Pride's Crossing, Massachusetts, compiled Hymns of the Ages, published in 1904. Her literary and musical standards were high, and the book handsomely printed, but its appear was limited and it had to compete with several other excellent hymnbooks then on the market for use among Unitarians. It included her own morning hymn beginning "O Thou who turnest into morning" (1902), also included in The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Henry H. Barber

1835 - 1923 Person Name: Henry Hervey Barber Hymnal Number: 51 Author of "Far off, O God, and yet most near" in The School Hymnal BARBER, HENRY HERVEY: Unitarian; b. at Warwick, Mass., Dec. 30, 1835. He was educated at Deerfield (Mass.) Academy and Meadville Theological School (1861). He held successive pastorates at Harvard, Mass. (1861-66), Somerville, Mass. (1866-84), and Meadville, Pa. (1884-90), while from 1884 to 1904 he was professor of philosophy and theology at Meadville Theological School. Since 1904 he has been professor emeritus. He is a member of the American Historical Association and of the American Economic Association, and from 1875 to 1884 was editor of the Unitarian Review. New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

Frederick M. White

Hymnal Number: 164 Author of "We bless Thee, Lord, for all this common life" in The School Hymnal

Frank S. Hunnewell

b. 1860 Hymnal Number: 232 Composer of "OPTIMIST" in The School Hymnal Hunnewell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in White Plains, New York, was living in 1918, when his 23-year old son Donald was killed in World War I. Sources New York Times, November 24, 1918, p. 23 Music-- OAKLAND PARTING HYMN SALVATOR WOODBRIDGE --www.hymntime.com/tch

Sydney Cross

Person Name: Sidney Cross Hymnal Number: 76 Author of ""Peace on earth, good-will toward men!"" in The School Hymnal

B. A. Cleaver

Hymnal Number: 58 Author of "O lily pure, that drawest me" in The School Hymnal

Foxell

1857 - 1933 Person Name: William J. Foxell Hymnal Number: 9 Author of "Saviour, to Thee we raise our hymn of gladness" in The School Hymnal Born: April 20, 1857, Marylebone, London, England. Died: July 29, 1933. Buried: Highgate Cemetery, London, England. Educated at London University (MA, PhD & BMus), Foxell served as assistant master in Holy Orders at Chigwell Grammar School (1881-83); headmaster, Amersham Grammar School, and chaplain of the Amersham Union (1883-86); minor canon, Canterbury Cathedral (1886-1903); Curate of St. Margaret’s, Canterbury (1887-98); diocesan inspector in the Canterbury Diaconate (1899-1903); Rector of St. Swithins, Cannon Street, London; and president of Sion College (1917 & 1921). --www.hymntime.com/tch

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